All Grown Up

Funshine's Then and Now: These were probably one of my favorite projects from this whole year! Too cute! 

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Funshine's I'm This Tall: We measured how tall we were and then attached a string with that length and then used our math skills to compare who was the shortest and the longest. 

Funshine's Freestyle Art: Chalky Drawing ... my kids love coloring wtih chalk! 

working on cutting and lacing! 

Funshine's: Tying Shoes 

Funshine's All About Me Memory Book

Funshine's Freestyle Art: Styrofoam Picture Transfer 

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Overall, using Funshine for my curriculum for the year was great. it has its advantages and disadvantages. One advantage was that everything is shipped to you and you just pull out the day and you are ready to go. Something I didn't care for was that sometimes the themes don't cocincide with what the kids are into. For example in January, the theme was Snow- well, in MN we didn't have any snow for the first couple weeks and then when it FINALLY snowed, we were onto another theme. I just think that sometimes using the environment to plan for the kids is even more of a learning activity. Will I use Funshine Express again? Maybe, but for next year I'm looking forward to planning on doing my own!  

Baby Animals, 2

Funshine's 3D Puppy 

Funshine's Darling Duckling Puppet: I will say this was probably their favorite project for this theme. We did the 4 Little Ducks with these and they had so much fun with the song and having the puppet was a bonus! 

Funshine's Piglet Mask 

And then we had to go check out real pigs! 

Baby Animals

We used Funshine's stickers and made our own May Day baskets 

Funshine's: Mother's Day Gift- I Love You Pot-- we used these for our Mother's Day cards 

Here's our Mother's Day gifts 

Funshine's Freestyle Art: Punch and Lace

Working on our Funshine journals 

Funshine's Pet Paws 

Up & Away, 2

Funshine's  Dangling Bird 

Funshine's Hot Air Balloon 

Here was our bulletin board that we had for April 

Up & Away

Funshine's Freestyle Art: Blue Sky

We were supposed to use the paper provided and make something else, but I didn't exactly think the kiddos would get what we were making, so we made paper airplanes instead. The airplane directions were included in Funshine's book. They sure had a blast flying these airplanes around! Even the 1 yr old thought she needed an airplane! 

Funshine's Blast off Rocket; they had fun running with these on their hands and watching the streamers fly! 

Funshine's Space Orbit: What a neat concept to show them how astronauts can fly 

Funshine's World in My Hands: They always have fun painting with shaving cream/glue and then feeling it after it dries! As you can tell that cutting out on cardstock paper was a little bit for difficult for them than regular paper! 

Funshine's Moon Rocks: This was a good project for strenthing their fine motor skills with the tin foil. 

Spring Has Sprung!

Funshine's Freestyle Art: Decorative Egg: We did our own version of this project because I didn't think the one that was included in the project kit was large enough and they all love to paint! So, we cut out an oval shape and they waterpainted them.

 

 

Funshine's Chirpy Chick; I thought these turned out so cute! We used a magic nuudle for the beak!

 

Funshine April Showers; this was kinda a fun project with using tulle as the raindrops. They can lift the tulle up and they have their May flowers!

 

 

Funshine's Freestyle Art: Planting Cup; we used dobbers to decorate our cups to plant flowers

 

We used our own pictures to make our own grass heads! We will see if we can get anything to grow!

 

 

 

Funshine's Flowering Headband

 

 

Our duckies with umbrellas!

 

 

Funshine's Springtime Counting Book: What a great way to get the little ones to count! We took a piece of paper an cut it in 1/2 the long ways, then made 3 cuts for the book to open. Added our 1 flower sticker, 2 clouds (cotton balls) and 3 worms (string) to each page. I did have them write their own numbers and words.

 

 

Funshine's Birdie, Birdie, Birdie; this was one of my favorite bird projects! We first painted a paper plate brown for the nest, let dry and then cut in 1/2, stapled it together and then added brown paper shreds to the nest and then added our birds that we had already colored, added the eyes and beaks.