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Last Week's No-Bake Cookie Exchange **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Since the foam jack-o-lanterns were such a hit with the girls (read about those here), I thought we would try turkeys for November. My order of foam sheets came in yesterday, so we got busy making everything we needed for foam turkeys! Sweet Girl reminded me to make "those red things turkeys have" for each turkey. I was trying to make sure my pieces weren't too small, but the waddlers turned out pretty cute. Sweet Girl even cut out a turkey that she drew with permanent marker. Love Bug was busy coloring on a foam sheet during that time. She really wanted to draw on one and I thought it would be fun for her to experience the texture and how it's different than drawing on paper. These even encourage the imagination! The girls started getting creative with their turkeys by using feathers as arms and legs and even bunny ears! Sweet Girl even started making a pattern with her feathers--all on her own--and asked me what color did I think came next. Plus, your bathtub is decorated for the holiday. Not too bad for a project that takes minutes to create is pretty inexpensive! Foam Turkeys Supplies needed: Brown foam sheets for the turkeys, black foam sheet for the eyes, yellow/orange foam sheet for the beaks, red foam sheet for the waddler and a variety of colored foam sheets for the feathers What to do:
*Your turkeys will stay put on the wall for at least a day if not bothered. They will eventually fall off. Make sure to gather your small pieces so they don't go down the drain! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! I know I've mentioned it before, but since I couldn't/can't drive due to my broken, now healing, leg, we have been using the library story time theme for our own story time at home. Sometimes we have turned it into the theme for the week. It's been fun having the themes picked out for me. If I plan far enough ahead, Papa Bear has been able to pick up books and/or videos that I have put on reserve at the library. If not, we look around the house for books that go along with the theme. This week's theme sort of caught me off guard--soup of the day. I had no idea what I was going to do with that. I was talking to Sweet Girl about the theme and told her we didn't have any books about soup, but that we would figure something out. That's when she came up with the idea of reading "Martha Speaks" books since Martha is a dog that ate alphabet soup and can talk. What a great idea!! So, that's what we read for our books. Before we read though, we headed outside for an alphabet soup activity. "Making" Alphabet Soup The girls had so much fun with this activity. It was raining, so we did the activity on the front porch. They loved adding the "ingredients" and "serving" the soup with ladles. We sang the ABC's song while our soup "cooked." I would ask Sweet Girl what letters were in my bowl or to ladle out a specific letter. What a fun way to work on letter recognition! OF course, I let the girls just play and do their own thing, too. Before long, things got a bit wet and by the end, it was obvious that a change of pants was in order for both girls before story time! What you'll need: A big soup pot (a lid is a plus!), smaller pots, ladles, bowls, spoons, foam alphabet letters (they float) and water Alphabet Soup Craft After a change of pants, socks and shoes we cozied up on the couch and read a couple of "Martha Speaks" books. Then, we headed to the table for our craft. There are numerous ways to create alphabet soup, but I went with what I had. :) The girls had a little snack while I finished prepping the craft and cutting out the pieces for Love Bug. Sweet Girl loves to cut and even insisted on cutting out some of her letters perfectly! I love how both of the girls put a letter right on their spoon! That was Love Bug's idea. :) Supplies needed: construction paper (color of your choice), circles to trace (we used a small dinner plate for the big circle), pencil, scissors, gluestick, markers or crayons, alphabet letters print-out and spoon template (I printed it full size). Note: Save print-out and template as a picture and then print. What to do:
*You could even have your child spell out short words in the soup. They can even make "BILLY" or "MARIA" or "MAMA" soup! **Take the whole "soup of the day" theme further and make soup for dinner! We are trying chicken tortilla soup! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Sage the Squirrel, our visiting flat traveler, posing with the little sweet potato we grew from our potato project. Next year, we will have to start earlier! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! Ever since we watched, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," Sweet Girl has been asking about bobbing for apples. She kept talking about the part where Lucy is bobbing for apples and she comes up with an apple that Snoopy also has in his mouth. "Dog germs!" Sweet Girl thought that was so funny! She asked if we could bob for apples and I thought that was a great idea! I'm glad I decided to set up in the kitchen because things got a bit wet. I put a towel on the floor and placed the bin of water on a little table on top of it. Love Bug helped by literally throwing in the apples! I had to explain that this was not water play. :) I went first to show the girls how to do it. Sweet Girl took a great picture of me getting my apple! (see below) It certainly is not as easy as it looks--especially since there were so few apples in the bin and the apples didn't have stems! Sweet Girl went next and then Love Bug. They had so much fun! After getting their apples, they wanted to try again. Soon, their arms started going into the bin to "help" the apples into their mouths. We really enjoyed ourselves. We were cheering on one another, laughing and we were wet, but it was one of the funniest times the girls and I have had! **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! The Front Porch Breakfast Fun Bath Time: Foam Pumpkins and Shaving Cream Goodie Bags: Crackers/Cookies, Candy and a Tract about "How do you know you're going to Heaven?" The Costumes: Sweet Girl designed and made her Flying Squirrel costume and Love Bug was Timmy the Sheep from Timmy Time. Sage the Squirrel, our visiting flat traveler, dressed like an elephant. This was the first Halloween I didn't spend at my grandmother's house with my family. I missed the traditions, but had fun creating memories for my girls at home. Papa Bear had to work on Halloween, so it was just us girls. We had never taken the girls trick-or-treating before, but Sweet Girl really wanted to go this year. Thankfully, I am able to walk pretty well now (I'm still in an air cast), so the plan was to go to our neighbors who are close. There were very few people passing out candy on our street. This was our first year being at home, so I didn't know if this was the norm or not. We walked a little further than I planned so we could go to a few houses. Then, we visited our next door neighbor, Mrs. B and even though she wasn't passing out candy, she had told me earlier that she would have something special for the girls. They got a big bag of goodies from her! We were only gone for about twenty minutes, but the girls were so excited to be out (at night, no less!), visiting neighbors and getting some treats. It brought back memories of my youth to see them dump their buckets to see what they had gotten after we returned home. The girls also loved seeing the costumes of all of the children who came to our house. Sweet Girl passed out most of the candy and would send everyone off with something like "I like your costume" or "Great costume" or "We'll be going trick-or-treating, too!" It was so cute to watch. We ended the night by watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" and read books before bed. We had a great day and we were thankful we were able to hand out goodie bags this year with the message of God and Jesus. **Pap-poo always had this giant ceramic pumpkin out for fall. She actually painted it. We took our family picture in front of it every year since we've been married through last year. Now, it's mine and I put it out this year for the first time.** **All photos and text are property of Angela Pounders and can not be distributed without permission. If you share one of my posts, please include a link to my page. Thanks! |
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