A Mommy's Adventures: June 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Wordless Wednesday ~ Sisterly Love

Thursday, June 24, 2010

stART ~ On Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures so that everyone can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

I added a stART tab in my navigation bar to make it easier to search for past stART projects. Be sure to check it out!! All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read One fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss. Emily LOVES when we read Dr. Seuss. We also have the board book version of this book for babies, which we also read with Juliette. Both girls love moving the little fish beads on the top of the board book. Emily pointed out all the different colored fish and helped Juliette count them.

I had some really cute foam fish that went really well with this book and when I saw the idea for finger painting on sandpaper at The Shafer Family I knew I had the perfect project. I actually did the finger painting with our art group and it went over very well, with the exception of on little girl that didn’t want to try it, but loved doing it at home :0)

Sandpaper Oceans

I gave each child white paint and two shades of blue paint to finger paint with on a sheet of sandpaper (I got the sandpaper at the dollar tree 12 sheets for $1.00!!!)

After the paint dried we glued Emily glued the fish onto the sandpaper. As she was gluing them she told me that they were all following in a line. I love when she tells me stories about her art project! Emily’s Finished Sandpaper Ocean

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Wordless Wednesday

Emily found this Mets shirt and decided she had to wear it, I remembered that Juliette had one too so of course Daddy needed a picture with his two little girls supporting his favorite baseball team!!!

Lets go Mets

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Writing with Nature

Emily loves writing letters and now whenever I give her a piece of paper and markers she covers it in her name, Mommy and Daddy.

Recently, while Emily was playing outside with Daddy and Grandpa they worked on writing names with sticks and rocks. Emily was so excited to see her name on the driveway we had to look for it every time we went outside!!

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Muffin Tin Monday

Yesterday we went out to dinner to celebrate Father’s Day which means we had some yummy leftovers for Muffin Tin Monday today!

Top Row: Penne Pasta with Sauce, Cucumber sticks and Cherries

Bottom Row: Penne Pasta with Sauce, Cucumber sticks and Whole Wheat Cranberry Teddy Bear Crackers (they are from CVS and are so yummy!)

Emily was so excited to have Muffin Tin Monday she requested a picture with her lunch!!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Having Fun Learning

Our Week Having Fun Learning Together!

Emily is 40 months old and Juliette is 11 months old

We have been so busy I am having a hard time finding the time to get anything posted. So here are all the fun things that we have been doing while having fun learning together!!

Emily and Juliette playing the wave drums during music class

Emily playing Oh Rats! with her dolls at Grandma’s house. She did this all by herself, she got them all together and set up and spun the spinner for each of her little girls to have a turn it was so adorable to watch!! I am constantly amazed at her imagination, it reminds me of how I used to play when I was little and I love being able to watch and listen to her play.

The girls had a great time playing a bingo game that I got from the Dollar Tree.

Emily and her friends had fun in the sprinklers and playing with water outside.

Emily and her friends love playing in the back yard on the swing set!!

Emily practiced transferring felt bow tie pasta with her training chopsticks.

I finally had a chance to take both Emily and Juliette to our children’s Museum. I am so excited to have our membership back and am looking forward to checking out some other children’s Museums with the reciprocal membership program.

THe last time we went to the museum Emily was to scared to get into this contraption. This time I couldn’t get her out. They stand in the middle and pull the bar down to make a bubble around themselves. Emily is testing out an Egyptian bed and Pillow (not very comfy looking pillow) at the traveling exhibit about sleep around the world.

Weaving a birds nest outside of the museum.

While we were at our friends house we discovered a large earth worm on the patio. The girls were able to look at it and even touch it.

Tiny Tot School

Juliette and Anna playing while their sisters worked on projects.

Juliette’s first time in the park swing. She really seemed to enjoy it!

Juliette with her friends playing with lots of fun toys.

Juliette is a little climber! She climbs up the later and then slides right down.

She had fun exploring these toys at our friends house.

Juliette loved the Jacob’s Ladder toy I brought back with me for the girls from my trip to Mexico.

Juliette’s favorite part of the Museum.

She climbed up the bridge…

…over the bridge…

…and slid down the bridge, over and over again!

So many adorable little Juliettes!

Our favorite books right now:

Daddy Hugs 1-2-3 ~ Karen Katz
Go Dog Go! ~ P.D. Eastman
Over in the Meadow ~ Ezra Jack Keats
Shapes that Roll ~ Karen Nagel

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

stART ~ Shapes That Roll

We have been doing a lot of shape inspired art so when I saw the book Shapes That Roll, by Karen Nagel at the library I knew it would go along with all of our art really well. The bright illustrations and playful rhyming text made this a fun book to read. Emily enjoyed finding all the different shapes throughout the book.

Here are some of the fun shape art projects that we have been working on.

Circle Collage

Emily used do-a-dot markers, reinforcements, hole punches, circle foam beads and circle felt pieces.

Triangle Contact Paper Collage

I cut out a piece of contact paper in the shape of a triangle. Emily stuck construction paper and foam triangles to the contact paper.

Square Tissue Paper Art

Emily painted watered down glue onto a piece of square paper and then added colored square tissue paper, she painted over them with the glue and added more squares. This gives it a really neat look!

Rectangle Magic Painting

I used white crayon to write the word “Rectangles” and draw different sized rectangles on a piece of construction paper. Emily then painted over the whole paper with watered down orange paint to reveal the secret shape picture.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

stART ~ Elmer

This week our art project actually came first and as we were talking about the design we agreed that it looked like Elmer the Elephant. So of course we decided to read the book Elmer, by David McKee to go along with the project. This is a story about a very colorful and elephant. In this book Elmer becomes tired of being so different and wants to blend in, however he soon realizes that things are just not the same without him. I love the message of individuality that this book portrays.

I am going to Mexico, well actually I am in Mexico right now for my best friends wedding and Emily and Juliette are staying home with Daddy. I needed a backpack to bring with me so I thought it would be fun to have Emily help me decorate one.

First I covered the edges of the drawstring bag with tape

Next, I drew a squiggly design on the front of the bag.

Emily and I colored in all of the spaces with fabric markers.

Emily pealed away the tape and revealed our awesome work of art. I am so excited to have this bag with me while I am away from my little girl.

I will be on a tour of Chichen Itza as you are reading this…but I can’t wait to come home and check out all of your wonderful stART projects!!!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

stART ~ In My Backyard

We have been spending a lot of time outside in our backyard these past few weeks so when I saw In My Backyard, by Margriet Ruurs at the library I knew Emily would enjoy it. The beautiful folded paper illustrations led to many discussions about the creatures that you can find in the backyard throughout the different seasons. I thought that they were the perfect complement to the simple text. Emily also loved hunting for the little lady bug in each picture.

This week I asked her what she wanted to make for her stART project after we read the book. She said a bird so I cut out a template of a bird and gave her the do-a-dot markers, feathers, glue and a wiggly eye and let her make her bird.