My Favorite Quotes:

A person's a PERSON no matter how small... -Dr. Seuss

I am a little pencil in the hand of God who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to THINK, than WHAT to think- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. - James Beattie


Saturday, February 6, 2010

Tot School Week 9- Letter V and More!

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V is for VALENTINE:

We made handprint valentine's from some easy molding clay that I bought at Hobby Lobby.

 
I have never made salt dough ornments myself- I remember doing them as a child.  The recipe I found didn't turn out too well though... Scarlett put all the ingredients together...
and stirred... did I mention she loves to do this??
  

And rolled (look at her concentration! ha ha!


And put all the cute little heart cutters in the dough-she had fun trying fit as many as she could in the dough.

 

Then we put them in the oven-- when they came out they were cracked... and not pretty at all- so we ended up throwing them away and not getting to paint them (luckily because we have had LOTS going on, Scarlett forgot about painting them.) But I wanted to paint them too! Hopefully I can find a better recipe next time.  :(

  


Next, Scarlett worked on counting snowflakes and putting the clip on the correct number of snowflakes that she counted.  She was having a hard time pinching the clips- look at this face!!


  

Some of the cards had LOTS of snowflakes (they were laminated) and so we were able to use a dry erase marker and she marked the snowflakes off as she counted them- this helped her keep track much easier!

  

Worked on cutting - I have her cut copies from our Kumon cutting book so that I can keep reusing the book for my other little munchkins!
  

On Thursday we had THURSDAY PRESCHOOL PLAYDATE with a few friends- it was our second one!! We talked about lots of words that start with V and the Creation Story-- They had soooo much fun- Check out my blog about it! :)

 Finally, we made little Groundhog Day crowns... got the idea from a blog but can't remember where?! Lily and Scarlett really LOVED wearing them though- Scarlett wore hers to library story time- LOL!

 
Happy Belated Groundhogs day, Early Valentine's day and every day in between!!! ;)
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15 comments:

Kristi said...

I love your handprint hearts! Turned out very cute.

Susan Cook said...

Thanks for following me - following you back.

Lots of cute ideas! Love the hand prints & groundhog hats.

Have a great day♥

Cassie said...

Those handprint hearts are such a great idea! I love that there are so many kid friendly crafts to do for Valentines day.

sbswtp said...

What great activities!!! I love the Valentine Handprints!

Julia said...

The handmade valentines are a great gift ideas for family. Thanks for the idea.

Sheena said...

Love the handprint valentine's. I might just have to get some clay this week to try that with the kids. Thanks for sharing the idea.

Susan-Chasing Marcus said...

Those handprint Valentines are so darling. We did some at Christmas, but these are too cute.

Elise said...

Handprints for Valentine's Day would make such a sepcial gift that would serve as a sweet keepsake.

What a shame about the salt dough ornaments. I used a recipe that I got from here:

http://andbabymakesfive-colleen.blogspot.com/2009/11/salt-dough-bowl-fillers-tutorial.html

htebazile said...

I too have never had much success with salt dough, If you find a recipe that works well please share!

Dee said...

Those are sooo great! I need to do this with Evan!

Dee said...

Let me know if you find a good recipe!

Anonymous said...

OO what a great valentine craft from the molding clay! Here is a link to a salt dough recipe that worked well for us over Christmas:
http://www.sunday-school-ideas-for-new-teachers.com/play-dough-recipe-salt-dough.html

Mama to 5 said...

very cute! Love the handprints! :)

Sherri said...

what a great week!
Looks like you had a lot of fun!
I adore the hand print idea!

kate said...

Hi Jo- great site- it looks like you are full of loads of great creative ideas! I'll be back soon!