Christmas Fun Night

 

Here's a couple pictures from our Christmas fun night we had last Friday night...

We decorated bird houses into gingerbread houses. I thought they turned out super cute!

 

 

The big kids played a game where they had to roll a dice and see who could get their whole gingerbread colored in first.

We tried gingerbread cookies!

We decorated large felt gingerbread men

 

 

Frames I got from Oriental Trading

 

Sticker sheets from Oriental Trading

Joyful Jamboree!

 

Our Jamboree Shaker from Funshine Express... worked great to be our shakers for our circle time song! It was suggested to use paint, but we just used our crayons and markers

 

 

 

 

 

Here's our Holiday Wreath from Funshine Express; this was a great activity to work on our cutting skills!

 

 

 

Our Starry Collage from Funshine Express; we kind of did our own version with this. We counted the 5 points the stars all had, sorted them in order of size and who knew the glitter glue would be the favorite!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Santa's workshop and our tree that they can decorate!

Little People Christmas sets and our sensory table is filled with wrapping paper (thanks for the idea Funshine Express) but it's easier to cut on the floor than standing up!

 

 

 These are Dollar Store cookie sheets & pizza pans that I've covered in wrapping paper and clear packing tape and then added magnets to the bows, so they can decorate the packages!

The start of our gingerbread house!

 

I am loving our journals from Funshine Express and so do the kids. It's nice not to send home a ton of papers daily instead they can take their journal home at the end of the month.

 

 

 

Our JOY card from Funshine:)

 

 

 

Jj journal page from Funshine Express and J jack-o-lantern

 

 

Let's Give Thanks, week 2

We had a short week but still managed to get quite a bit accomplished! We had fun playing the suggested games from Funshine this week

 

 

 

We painted our Dried Corn Hanger from Funshine, some had more fun popping the bubbles than painting, which lead us to getting out the bubble wrap to pop and jump on when we were done painting. I seen this idea on pinterest and wanted to make sure and do it this year, thank you Funshine for providing this for a craft activity:)

 

 We had to have our own version of Indian Corn for snack!

 

 

 

 

A few fun treats we made this week. To the left is Turkey toast and the to right is nutter butter acorns.

 

 

 

 

Gobble, Gobble!

 

 

Feathers added to the parachute equals TONS of fun!

 

 

Our sensory table for the week! Notice the whole ears of corn, we determined that Indian corn is a lot harder to shuck that field corn!

 

 

 

A couple fun treats to share with our friends!

 

An annual art project we do... I'm thankful for my friends!

We also made these cute little gobbler cups and filled them with treats to take home!

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving from my kiddos to yours!

Turkey Toes; Manners

Here's our Turkey Toes from Funshine. I always love painting their feet, it's such a fun sensory for them and listening to them giggle as all their friends come up and ask if it tickles them!

 

 

 

We also played this turkey game that I made a couple years ago. It worked great for recognizing colors and working on those fine motor skills with pinching the clothespins.

 

 

 

Our book of the month is Manners at the Table, a great book for small children as a reminder on the manners they should have at the table! To celebrate working on our manners, we had a manners tea party... Only manners were allowed and we had to work on using our manners/words such as "please pass me" "no thank you", etc...

 

Letter I; Turkeys; Scarecrows

Letter I, we made an ice cream cone I and did our journals from Funshine

Our little gobbler headbands... I thought these were pretty cute, especially loved the noodle for the beak! Another Funshine project!

 

 

We played a few rounds of the math game from Funshine. I made it work for these kiddos (as they are all a bit younger), we counted the pumpkins and then matched it to the correct number.  

 

 

A suggested activity from Funshine this week was to have the shapes and then sing it like the Hokey Pokey, put your circle in, put your circle out, etc..

 

 

 

To make our scarecrows from Funshine, we had to first draw a circle for the face and then cut it out before adding all the fun stuff! They LOVED their scarecrows:-)