Do-A-Dot Rainbow

Today we did a quick Rainbow Do-A-Dot worksheet from Gift of Curiosity. The kids always love Do-A-Dot sheets so they enjoyed this.

We are seeing rainbows!

February was a rough month at our house. Lots of sickness and medical issues kept interrupting our regular routine. Everyone seems to be feeling better, the weather is warming up and spring is on its way.

Right on cue, our theme this week is rainbows. Today we made fruit loop rainbows (then ate some of the leftovers).  This project was one of our longest time-wise, but the kids seemed to enjoy it.

I helped each kid put a bunch of glue in the corner and they put the cotton balls on to look like clouds. Then I made a glue line for each color and let them know what color they should be placing. We actually started with green, and worked our way from the middle out to make sure it fit. 

I imagine these will take all day to dry since we used a lot of glue to hold everything in place. 

Circus popcorn

What do you eat at the circus? Popcorn of course! We made cotton ball popcorn today from this easy tutorial.

I printed out the templates and gave the kids glue to dip their cotton balls in. I did draw a very faint guideline so they could see how much "popcorn" to put on. 

Then, they painted them yellow to give the appearance of buttery popcorn. 

Paper plate clown

This week our theme is "circus," so we made a simple, fast paper plate clown.

I glued the yarn mouths on because I don't think any of the kids could do that part. 

I put glue where the eyes and nose should be, and they put those on. Then l, I showed them where to put the glue for the clown "hair." Finally, the hair Pom-poms. Sutton used the biggest ones I had, so she was done almost immediately. 

Hen and chicks handprint art

We did a simple hand print project today for our last day of farm week.

Each kid made a hand print and four fingerprints.

I went back and used markers to add in eyes, legs and beaks. This is a cute farm week craft or would work well for Easter too.

Muddy pigs

Today as part of farm week we made muddy pigs inspired by this post on Mrs. Karen's Preschool Ideas.

I found a pig template on Google and printed them out and had the kids color them in. My kids are not fond of coloring, but Lucian did his and Sutton did some.

Then I attempted to mix some rock salt and oatmeal into brown paint. When the kids painted with brushes though, they mostly only got paint and the chunks stayed in the muffin liners. 

Lucian and Sutton's pigs are VERY muddy, while our daycare friends looks more as I had envisioned. The kids had fun making them muddy though, so I call it a success!

Do-A-Dot Farm sheets

I let the kids each pick out two Farm Do-A-Dot sheets from the free downloadable packet at Gift of Curiosity. We ended up with 3 pigs, 1 cow and 2 follow the arrow mazes.

After they finished their sheets the kids also just did some random dots on paper since they were having so much fun.