Two weeks ago, we learned all about the letter C.  I didn't get any pictures of our preschool day with Kennedy, which I'm super bummed about since we made the cutest very hungry caterpillar headbands.

We strengthened our fine motor skills by playing with orange play dough.

C is for clouds

Practiced counting clouds (aka. cotton balls)

Naomi glued cotton balls on her Cc sheet.

Link to Cc sheet

We did some cloud painting.

Cloud paint: 3/4 c. shaving cream  1/4 c. white glue

The girls love touching the clouds after they dried; it's a really neat texture.

This past week, we learned all about the letter Dd.

The girls did a name match activity.

D is for dog

We talked about dogs and made dog puppets. (Can you tell what color we focused on?)

I've been experiment with different handwriting sheets because even though Mia is very capable of writing the letters, she's not always super interested.  Since she is only 3, it's a battle I'm not going to fight but I'm hoping I can find something that works for her.

After reading, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes we made our own purple purses.

Here's the link to where I got the idea- Preschool Book Club

Naomi was really into this and took her coloring her purse very seriously.  Mia also participated in most of these activities but is currently not into her picture being taken. 

Gluing purple diamonds to her Dd sheet.

Link to Dd sheet

The girls had so much fun with this dinosaur sensory bin.  I just used old coffee grounds and brown sugar as the base then added some rocks, toy snacks and toy dinosaurs.

While one was playing in the sensory bin, the other was using dinosaur cookie cutters as stamps.

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All of these books are toddler friendly. If your toddler has a short attention span and won't sit through, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Best Mouse Cookie is a great, shorter alternative!  If you don't already own, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, you should probably go buy it because it's a classic that teaches about a caterpillars life cycle, counting and days of the week. 

C is for Clouds

Cc printable

C is for Cat

Grandma came to visit and did this project with Mia...isn't it cute!

C is for Caterpillar

These Do A Dot markers are super fun and easy for toddler hands. Plus, there are tons of free printables  on the web to use with them!

Caterpillar worksheet

Mia and I worked together to create a large caterpillar to help with number recognition.  Before hanging it on the wall, we played a "game" where I said the number and Mia had to give me the circle with the corresponding number. This would also be really fun to incorporate gross motor skills and have your child jump on the number (I would have done that but didn't want to wrinkle our caterpillar!)

 

Our finished caterpillar...a perfect addition to our reading area.

The original plan for this project was to make a caterpillar in the shape of the letter C but Mia was having so much fun gluing the circles independently that it became a piece of paper with circles all over it.  Remember...art with toddlers is about the process, not necessarily the end product!

 C is for Cookie

The ingredients: shaving cream and brown paint

 

Stir, stir, stir

Plop it onto a paper plate (preferably white)

 

If you're wondering what Naomi does when we are doing activities...

I had good intentions of baking cookies this week but when it came down to it...I didn't feel like consuming a days worth of calories in cookie dough and cleaning up the mess.  : /

Link to Puffy Paint Cookies

 C is for Castle

This was so fun!  And, it turned out really cute!

Link to shape castle

 Up next week...Hh

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