May 18-22: Caterpillars and Butterflies

Sorry it has been so long since my last blog update. Things have been very busy around our house since the weather got warm!

Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Fingerplay:

The Caterpillar
The fuzzy little caterpillar went up into a tree(act like your climbing)
spun his cocoon and then (yawn)went to sleep (spin hands)
While he was sleeping he dreamt that he could fly (making flying motion)
When he woke up (loud, excited) he was a butterfly.

Vocabulary: butterfly, caterpillar

Art activities:
*egg carton caterpillar
*footprint butterfly
*circle caterpillar
*coffee filter butterfly
*mirror image butterfly

Other activities:
*hungry caterpillar fruit salad
*butterfly life cycle pasta project
*feeding the hungry caterpillar

Helpful links:
literacy and ABC butterfly and caterpillar themed activities
hungry caterpillar emergent reader
information on creating your own butterfly garden

Exciting Eggs!

Tye Dye Easter Eggs

Materials: Coffee filters, markers, spray bottle
Activity: Cut coffee filters in egg shape. Color with markers. Spray with with water once finished coloring. Allow to dry.


Collage Egg

Materials: construction paper, collage materials (scraps of paper, sequins, buttons, pom poms, anything you can think of really!) and glue
Activity: Cut your construction paper into an egg shape. Have your child color the egg if desired. Then have them glue on collage materials. Allow to dry.

Bunnies and Eggs!

I'm not doing a lesson plan for this week, but we will be doing some bunny and egg crafts and projects for easter so I will post photos and directions. Enjoy!

Turtle Mobile

Materials: toilet paper roll, ribbon, white turtle cut outs (from construction paper or cardstock), paint, crayons or markers

Activity: Paint your toilet paper roll and allow it to dry. Next, color your turtle cut outs green and brown. Poke a hole in the center of each turtle and thread your ribbon through tying a knot on one side. Poke a line of holes in your tp roll and thread the other end of the ribbon into it and secure with a knot. Using some of the ribbon tied around the top to form a way to hang your mobile as shown in the photo.

Rainbow Fish

Materials: Fish cut out of construction paper, rainbow variety of paints, foil, wiggle eye (or marker to draw eye)

Activity: Have your child paint the rainbow fish many colors. Once dry glue on small squares of foil and draw eye or glue on wiggle eye.

Darling Ducks

Thumbprint Ducks

Materials: Yellow paint, orange and black marker or crayon, white paper

Activity: Use your thumbprint and your child's to make the body of the duck. Once dry use the orange and black markers to add details to your ducks as shown in the picture.











Paper Plate Duck

Materials: paper plate, yellow paint, orange and yellow construction paper, glue, wiggle eye

Activity: Paint the paper plate yellow. Once dry fold in half. Out of the yellow and orange construction paper make head, beak and feet of duck and glue to paper plate (which should be folded in half as shown). Glue wiggle eye on to complete.

Updating

I just wanted to say sorry for my terrible lack of updates this week. I will be back later today to finally update. The beautiful weather and house hunting have taken over my life this week! But it's a rainy day, so perfect day to finally get my blog caught up again. :)