More Valentine Fun

I love Valentine's Day! I think I had more fun than the kids did this week. One day when they were napping I made these cupcakes. They enjoyed the surprise when they woke up.

The boys also made this paper flower one day. They colored it and I cut it out and helped them glue the pieces on.The pieces weren't straight at all, but I love them that way. I don't really like their artwork to look too perfect. I want them to have fun and for their work to display what they can do. Of course I help with cutting and things like that, but I try to always let them do as much as they can by themselves.



Then today I just let the boys go wild and make Valentine's. I got out paper, stickers, paint, and markers. Jax made 2 and Sawyer made 4 and would have made more if I would have let him.

Veggies and Valentines

I decided to skip a couple of letters and do letter V this week, since Valentine's Day is this Saturday. I introduced letter V on Monday. It was probably a good idea anyway, because V and U are really the only letters Sawyer gets mixed up sometimes. He knows the V sound, but sometimes he confuses the V with a U or and A. I put paper vegetables all over the living room and told the boys to pick the veggies. They put them in baskets and then we sorted them.

The boys had so much fun making Valentine's this week. I cut out hearts and had them glue red tissue paper to it.

They also made paper hugs. I found the idea here.

They painted the hearts and I cut them out. I helped Sawyer and Jax glue the faces and arms on. Sawyer said he wanted to give his hug to Jax.

Letter S

This week we talked about the letter S. Our theme for the week was snow. We didn't really get started until Wednesday. Both boys decorated the letter S with snowballs (cotton). They also had a snowball fight with cotton balls. We did this twice this week, because they enjoyed it so much. Sawyer also made a snowman with hectagons.
Thursday Sawyer painted with a mixture of shaving cream and white glue. This was a great sensory activity. I told him to paint with the snow however he wanted. When it was dry it smelled like shaving cream and felt soft like snow. Jax played with shaving cream while he did this and when Sawyer was finished he joined in. This kept them busy for about half an hour.
Sawyer's bible verse was "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be in want." We read several stories about David this week. On Friday I had Sawyer paint a shepherd's staff. I let him paint a paper bag and then I cut it out. I wrote his verse on a piece of paper and glued the staff to it.

I let Jax play with water and sponges while we did this. He had a blast. Again, Sawyer joined him and they had a great time.

Letter Q

Last week we talked about the letter q. Let's face it, there are not too many q words, so we focused on queen and quilt. The first day I let sawyer color the letter q and decorate it with glitter glue. I drew a little face and he put a crown on it to make it look like a queen.

The next day I read the boys a Bible story about Queen Esther. Then they made a paper bag puppet queen. I told them it was queen Esther. I let them both paint different parts of the queen. I cut out the hair and body parts and Sawyer helped me glue them on.
I used the Queen Esther puppet for circle time the next day.
One day we sat on a quilt and read a book about a quilt.
Then the boys helped me glue the hexagons together to form a quilt like pattern. Sawyer said it wasn't a quilt, it was a flower.

We also played the quiet game and talked about questions.