No Mess Painting

Valerie from Frugal Family Fun Blog shared this idea just the other day. I am always looking for fun and easy things to do with Johnsie and this activity was perfect.

It is just baby oil and paint in a ziploc baggie. It creates a wonderful marbling effect. Check out Valerie’s Blog blog for the complete directions.

Guess the Letter

So, Johnsie has really had no interest learning his letters and I am getting a little, not nervous, but anxious about it. He will be 4 here in a few weeks and really only knows a handful of letters and numbers. Whenever I try to get him to sit down and learn with me he only lasts a few minutes and quickly gets bored. For example, he really liked the book How to Build an A and now when I take it out he wants to build anything but letters. I try and sneak a few in there every once in awhile. So, any ideas are welcome.

The teacher inside me knows he will be fine. It is like parents who have kiddos that are 4 and aren't potty trained yet. They will be fine. They will get it. I know Johnsie will get it.

So, here's what we did for a few minutes today anyway. Because of course his attention doesn't last long.I got 3 cups and some letters and put a letter under each cup.
I would mix them around and Johnsie would pick one and then he had to tell me the letter. If he got it right he was given a jelly bean.
After awhile he decided to put 2 letters under each cup. This of was not because he wanted to learn his letters but, that he wanted more candy. I guess we probably did this for about 10 mins so he I guess he actually lasted pretty long.

A Chain of Bunnies

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This is what Johnsie and I made today.

I folded my paper lengthwise and didn't cut in half. That way after I was done cutting I had 2 chains of 4 bunnies.

Cute guys
We added smiley faces. But NO clothes, because
"Bunnies don't wear clothes you silly."We flipped a few of them over and glued on bunny tails. I cut cotton balls into 4 pieces.Happy Tails to You.

When I hung them up I taped some looking out and some with their tails facing out. Too bad all of our walls are white. They would look really cute on a colored wall.

This is Johnsie opening the bunnies for the first time. I told him it was magic.

The Art Box

Nicole is hosting this weekly activity over at Tired, Need Sleep. All you
need to do is fill a box full of crafty stuff and leave it out for your kiddo to use all week.
Let them create whatever they want.

We didn't do a lot of open ended art this week.

We did however use play clay. We do love this book.

The little boy in this book makes cookies out of play clay and plays a joke on his parents and gets them to taste his cookies.

We made pizza instead of cookies.

We got Manny to try our pizza. Hahaha!

The Art Box

Nicole is hosting this weekly activity over at Tired, Need Sleep. All you
need to do is fill a box full of crafty stuff and leave it out for your kiddo to use all week.
Let them create whatever they want.

Johnsie painted with a plastic newspaper bag that I folded up, and then snipped the ends and fastened with a twisty.

Cool, spattery effect.

Using lots of paint,

and then using the end of the paint brush to make designs.

Dollar store find. We are going to do a transportation theme this week.

Michaels---$2

Johnsie loved painting this.

Of course it had to be green. His favorite color. We want to paint the belly red but, since he hasn't stopped playing with it yet, we haven't got that far.

When Manny and I came home from hockey practice we were given this wonderful picture made just for us. Thanks Johnsie.

We are really into H's and A's

It was a good week!

The Art Box

Nicole is hosting this weekly activity over at Tired, Need Sleep. All you need to do is fill a box full of crafty stuff and leave it out for your kiddo to use all week.
Let them create whatever they want.

This week we had the TP tubes Johnsie painted last week, baseball foam shapes, stencils, hearts, glitter, paints and crayons.

Last week, when we painted these, Johnsie knew he wanted to make them into a smiley face.

Isn't he cute.

A Valentine for Daddy. I drew a bunch of dots that he could trace for the word DAD but, he wanted nothing to do with it.

Gluing on baseball foam shapes.

Johnsie is really into stencils.

Last week we did some crayon resist and he wants to do it all the time now. He thinks it is magic.

I asked him what he was painting here and he said, "Nothing, I am just painting." He's not so into telling stories with his paintings yet.

Magnifique

Paper Letters

Ryan has these lead cards that he uses for work. When he separates the carbon piece from the paper piece, he is left with these long edges. Johnsie has always loved playing with them. He has been really into making letters since we read How To Build An A.


It was all his idea to sit down and make letters from the paper edges. He made them all, except he asked me to make him a W.


He loves to sit down and just create with these.

I know Ryan would say, "see we don't need toys."

Valentine Activities

Sweetheart Candy Sort

After we sorted, we graphed the candy see how many of each color we had. Isabelle was very interested in this activity.


Once we were done, Johnsie had to separate the girl colors from the boy colors. He didn't want to eat the pinks or purples.


Later we were working on our cutting skills.

He wouldn't cut them unless I held the paper.


After we had cut some of the little hearts, Johnsie said he thought they looked like elephant ears so, we proceeded to make a valentine elephant. Forget-me-Not.

I was proud he saw the elephant ears all on his own. I have never shown him an elephant made from hearts before.