Monday: Caterpillar C and Cooties
Tuesday: Chromatography and Cinderella
Wednesday: Car Coloring and Card making
Thursday: Carousel and Cake pops
Friday: C worksheet and Crab decorating
Every week we take the letter of the week and make a craft out of it, usually an animal. Somehow I almost never end up with a picture, but this time I got a process pic. Cordie used her fine motor skills for gluing, stacking (an addition to the plan haha), and drawing on caterpillar legs.
That afternoon we played two rounds of Cooties. I love that game. Of all the games she has learned to play so far, that is my second favorite. Only Pretty Pretty Princess beats it out. After the actual game, Cordie insisted that the Cooties needed to go on a picnic and who am I to stand in the way of Cootie Congregation?
Tuesday we did a chromatography experiment. The fine motor skill involved drawing a fairly precise circle on the coffee filter and folding the filter so that only the tip touched the water. This was fun, but we quickly learned that only certain marker brands will separate into colored brands. Sharpies do not and neither do dry erase markers. Crayola Washable markers do a bit, but our best look was with a pack that we had picked up at the Dollar Store. By the time we had found the best markers, we were out of filters! Sad trombone! The goal of this experiment is to let the water soak up the coffee filter and as it does, it will separate the colors. You can see a bit of blue and pink coming out of the dark purple we started with. If you start with good markers, then you could follow up the science by using pipe cleaners to make butterflies from the pretty coffee filters.
Wednesday was car coloring. I thought this was a lot of fun! Theo did too. Cordie was obstinate about it until Brother started playing, then she wanted in on the action. We used paper towels to draw on, but obviously one of those big rolls of paper would work better, or even plain wrapping paper for a fun party package.
We also made cards as the next day was Valentine's Day. Cordie's f.m. skills still aren't up to snuff, but I was so so so proud of her cutting that day. She wouldn't even try to cut a circle a couple of months ago and she ended up cutting out an entire recognizable heart. We then taped the hearts (one she cut and one I did) to construction paper and she painted over and around it. When the paint dried, we lifted off the heart and the outline was there on the prettily painted paper (try saying that three times fast).
Thursday was Valentine's and we just had fun. We went to the carousel and rode the Santa Train. It doesn't go up and down-why is that Cordie's favorite??? Theo's eyes were basically rolling in his head after one ride, so we played at the little park that has just been built outside the carousel. Then we went for cake pops. Yum!
Friday we did a C worksheet that went way better than the B one. C is an easier shape to make and I made sure wait until Cords was in the right frame of mind to do it. We also made the ugliest crab out of a paper plate that anyone has ever seen. I had envisioned something different, as with so many other things! The plan had been to stick pipe cleaners in as legs and let her put beads on them as a fine motor skill, but she espied the glitter. Ah, glitter. I have such a love/hate relationship with it. Anyway, the glitter was poured on the crab Tomatoa style and the beads and everything else in her grasp was added as more decoration. Eye roll. Some beads were put on the legs, so the f.m. box got checked, but I'm still sweeping up glitter.
That was C week! We just finished D week and I'll blog about that soon. Entering E week!
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