Friday Following

I'm always looking for new blogs to read and follow. It's also nice to have new followers of my blog. This is why I'm linking up with Friday Follow. It's a huge blog party where you get to visit lots of other blogs and hopefully follow them. So, come on over and join the party!

stART Project - The Mitten

One of our favorite books recently has been The Mitten by Jan Brett. I found this adorable printable from Jan Brett's website that we had so much fun with.

Bekah colored the animals and I cut them out.

After the animals were colored she wanted to color the mitten.

We used double sided tape to attach the sides and top of the mitten. Then, as I read the story Bekah would put the animals into the mitten.

She had so much fun with this craft!

We also had fun doing this mitten activity that I found at childcareland.com
It follows the Brown Bear, Brown Bear idea. I had Bekah call out what colors would come next and choose that color. For example, "Red Mitten, Red Mitten, what do you see?" "I see a yellow mitten looking at me..." and so on until all the mittens are looking at me.


You can see what others are doing for their stART project at A Mommy's Adventures.

Sweetheart Candy Counting Game

I saw the idea for this sweetheart candy counting game at No Time For Flashcards. I picked our candies up at the dollar store and quickly traced some hearts with numbers 1-12 on a large piece of construction paper. Bekah had to put the correct number of candies on each heart.


Bekah did well with this, but to be honest, became quickly bored. However, we did it right before dinner and she was hungry, so that could be why it didn't last long!

Here's how far she got...pretty good for being hungry!

Happy Groundhog Day!

We started our morning talking about groundhogs and how it was groundhog day. We even watched Punxsutawney Phil make his prediction here.
After we watched and found out that we're going to have 6 more weeks of winter (blah!), we made a groundhog craft from Making Learning Fun.
Bekah colored in the groundhog and the grass.


She then cut on the dotted lines. She loved this part!

We glued the groundhog to a large craft stick.

Then, after folding the grass in half, we inserted the groundhog into the grass and pushed him up and down to "pop" out of the ground.

After our craft we watched and sang along to I'm A Little Groundhog.

The Doctor is In....

Apparently we have been running an infirmary here at our house. I've had about 5 check-ups in the past few days and numerous shots from "Dr. Bekah."

We've also had a dolphin with a hurt "beak":

a cat with a hurt tail:

Our dog has had a hurt back:

and Daddy's blood pressure has needed monitoring:

However, Dr. Bekah has come to the rescue for us!

In all seriousness, this used to be the child that hated bandaids! I got a box of colorful ones from the Dollar Store to put in her Doctors kit and she now wants to put them on everything (including herself)! So funny!

MuffinTin Monday - Shapes

Happy Monday! For today's Muffin Tin Monday, the theme is Dr. Seuss. As you can see, we didn't go with the theme today. Instead, we did a shape muffin tin. Bekah really loved her lunch and we got to use her snowflake muffin tin for probably the last time this year.


In her tin, she had, square cheese nip crackers, circle peanut butter and jelly sushi (see how to make this below), American cheese triangles, semi-circle tomatoes, a round orange, and a rectangle brownie. I made these brownies the other night and they were THE BEST. We got the recipe from Cooking During Stolen Moments. They are seriously the best brownies I have ever had!

You can see what others are having at Muffin Tin Mom.

To make the peanut butter and jelly sushi -
Cut the crust off of one piece of bread.
Roll the bread out using a rolling pin.
spread with peanut butter and jelly.
Roll the bread up and cut into pieces.
Enjoy!

February Calendar

Happy February....the last full month of Winter! I've been wanting to do calendar work with Bekah for quite some time now and finally found an idea I loved. This calendar printable comes from Childcareland.com under free printables.
We printed out the printable calendar and I used double sided tape to attach it to a large piece of construction paper. I used the hearts that printed out with it to decorate the top of the paper.
Every day we plan on tracing a number. Today was the number 1, tomorrow will be the number 2.

I wasn't sure how Bekah would take to this, but she LOVED it! We finished tracing the 1st and she said, "Okay, now I'm going to sleep and then it will be another day!" She can't wait to trace the next one!