Hetty's 100 Hats

We did this project when we were learning about the letter H. I have to admit, I ended up being the one to make the hat, but I do think Bekah thought it was pretty neat that you can make a hat out of a piece of newspaper.

Hetty's 100 Hats is an adorable book by Emma Dodd. It's about a little girl who starts collecting hats. She is determined to have 100 hats. At the end of the book, there are directions included to make your own newspaper hat. Bekah really enjoyed this story, but did not want to wear her hat. Oh, well!

Preschool - Letter H

This week we had a lot of fun with the letter H.

We made a H is for house from Totally Tots.

From our Raising Rock Stars Preschool our verse of the week was "Honor your Father and your Mother." Exodus 20:12.

She also made a little book called Hearts and Hands.

Cut out her letter H cards.

A favorite of the week was the power point show from the members only section of Raising Rock Stars Preschool. It is totally worth the money!

Another fun activity we printed off from 1+1+1=1 was this pom pom number matching. Bekah really had fun with this.


We used more printables from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
The number cards are still her favorite. She actually pulls these out herself to play with during the week.

Hippo sequencing.

A new activity for us. Bekah had to use a push pin to poke holes in the letter H. She loved this!

Here she is holding it up to see the light shine through her holes.

DLTK had a cut and paste hippo that Bekah put together.

I printed these animal homes matching cards. Bekah loved this activity. We actually just matched them up and glued them on paper, but they could also be made into a matching game. I cannot locate where I printed these from, but will try to find and add a link.

This hot and safe sorting was something I copied out of the most recent Kindergarten Mailbox magazine. It would be very easy to recreate. All that's needed is clip art of things that are hot (candle, oven, match, fire, etc. and things that are safe teddy bear, pillow, table, chair, etc.) I then had Bekah sort the things that were hot and the things that are safe.

One of our fun activities was that Bekah played a lot with her Splaster. She really loves the art section, but there are also great learning games on here.

We did a lot more activities and had a great time in Preschool this week!

stART - House for Hermit Crab

This week we've been working on the letter H. A book we've really been enjoying is A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle. Bekah LOVES any of his books, so you just can't go wrong with this one!

I found a cute project at homeschool share that went along with this book. They actually have a whole lapbook that you can put together, but we just made the art project.

The story in the book is about a hermit crab who has outgrown his home. He finds a new shell to live in, but it is very plain. He decorates it with sea stars, sea urchins, and many more things.

Our project was to decorate the Hermit Crabs new home with whatever Bekah saw fit. We added stickers, feathers, sequins, and buttons. She really got creative and had a blast!

She spent a long time working on her beautiful hermit crab picture.

You can see what others are doing at A Mommy's Adventures and over at Kids Get Crafty.

Happy Valentines Day - Letter H is for Hearts Week

This week has been filled with hearts! We've been concentrating on the letter Hh (H is for hearts, after all!)

We started off our week making a heart shape guy.


Here's Bekah having fun with heart clappers. (I got these at our Dollar Tree).

We did a craft to the book, I Lost My Kisses.


Bekah has loved getting to use scissors. She was amazed to open up this paper and see that she had cut out a heart! She decorated it afterwards.

I know she's in two different outfits doing this one. We actually did this twice.


Here we are making a yummy treat with heart sprinkles.


Bekah did a sequence with hearts and pom poms.



There are some awesome heart printables at Home Grown Hearts that we used this week.
These are a few of them that we used:

Heart Shape searcher:

Letter H Magnet page (from www.makinglearningfun.com). I made these magnetic pom poms using Erin's directions here:

Heart Addition:

Upper and lowercase H matching:


Other Letter H Activities that we came up with:
We searched for the letter H (upper and lowercase) in magazines. When we found them, we would cut them out and glue them to this big letter H.



Using a hole punch. This was tough for her, but she kept at it!


This is an awesome Hot and Cold file folder game. We hadn't worked on this in awhile, so I took it out again. Bekah loved it even more than last time!

Happy Valentines Day!