C is for Camping

Yesterday we did C is for camping theme. It was fun, Alex loves camping anyway. You can see some photos for our last camping trip here and some photos from our summer backyard camp out here.

Alex did some fishing for shape fish. I cut out fish from construction paper, added a paper clip and drew a different shape on each fish. I made a fishing pole out of a dowel we had on hand, some string and a magnet. I laid them all out on a big piece of newsprint we had. When Alex caught a fish he had to identify the color and shape on it.

Alex did some camping printables from 2 Teaching Mommies He did a prewriting sheet, a letter C tracing sheet, and a sorting of edible and unedible items worksheet.

 

 We made some S'mores on a stick. I put a bunch of marshmallows onto clean craft sticks. I melted some chocolate chips, while I told Alex to smash up some graham crackers. We dipped the marshmallows into the chocolate and then into graham cracker crumbs. We had S'mores on a stick, simple, fun and yummy!

 

I set up a blanket over the kitchen chairs and Alex pretended it was a tent. I made him a pretend campfire from toilet paper rolls and red and yellow tissue paper. I gave him a flashlight to play with too. Alex loved it.  You can't forget how important pretend play is at this age.

Making an "alligator" shadow puppet :)

Zzzz...Time for bed

I had a hard time finding preschool camping themed books, but this is what I found. Alex enjoyed them.

Backyard Camp-out

Last night we had a back yard camp-out. Both Daddy and myself are on vacation and it was a nice night out. Alex was so excited.

 

While it was still light out we made some toilet paper/ paper towel roll owls. I was inspired to make these from Frugal Family Fun's blog post. I simple collected the paper tubes, folded the top to create the owl's ear tufts. Instead of painting them we used colored tissue paper and decoupaged them. After we added some googly eyes, beaks and wings. Daddy's owl is the really tall one with the crazy "feathers," he said his was molting. LOL Even Grammy joined in on the craft. Her's is the cute purple and blue one on the right.

Afterward we built a fire and made S'mores. Alex wanted to eat each part individually.

It was dark out then, so we had some glow stick fun. We made a awesome glow stick lantern that I saw on Pinterest original post by Little Blue Boo. I simply cut open a couple of leftover glow sticks and dumped the contents of them into a jar. Instant lantern.

Alex also had a glow stick wand that made some interesting photos. When I shot them on a low shutter speed.

After a fun night it was time for bed, and we all crawled into the tent and went to sleep to the sound of crickets chirping and a cool summer breeze blowing through the trees.