Turkey Fun

Today we did a few turkey related activities, as I mentioned in the previous post we taking the week off from doing the alphabet so we could do some Thanksgiving related activities.

We made a paper plate turkey that was from a kit that I got at Micheal's. It was a simple directional gluing craft. It came out pretty cute. Alex still needs a lot of help getting the pieces in the right place, but seems to do better when I lay the glue down for him. I think he came out pretty cute.

We also played with some homemade play dough. I got this great play dough idea and recipe from Counting Coconuts blog.

 At first we used a turkey cookie cutter, but that got boring fast. So I made 2 balls, a large one for the body and a smaller on for his head, we added some googly eyes and Alex had a lot of fun adding all colored craft feathers.

The feathers were tickling his face. LOL

The weather broke for a bit. We've had rain and dreary, cloudy weather for almost 2 weeks here, so we decided to go outside and play. I quickly made up a batch of turkeys that I could hide around the yard so Alex could go on a turkey hunt. He loves any kind of hide and seek or scavenger hunt games so I knew he would be a hit.

 For these cards I just printed a clip art turkey and taped one colorful craft feather to the back. I gave him a little bag to collect them in and off he went.

Tot School 1st Day

10/18/10

~Alex is currently 32 months~

I decided that we would concentrate on color identification.The only color that I know for sure he knows in red. Today's theme was Autumn Colors.

The Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

This is a great book. We read it together and pointed out the different colors of the leaves.  I thought a craft that he would enjoy would be to make a fall tree using fingerprints. I cut out a tree trunk shape piece of paper and had him start to paint it brown while I cut out another round shape to use as the leaves.

He started out doing finger prints....

Then it was more fun to finger paint with all the colors.

"Look at my hand, Mommy!"

The finished tree

 Next we did a outside color scavenger hunt. I got this idea from No Time For Flash Card's Nature Match post.            

I used a egg carton and painted the colors in the bottom.

Then we went outside to see what we could find to match each color. Alex did pretty good, especially with red and purple.

Later in the afternoon I dumped everything out on the table and we matched our treasures with the colors again.

The last project of the day that Alex had very little interest in was a leaf collage from some leaves that we had collected and flattened in a phone book from last week. Mommy ended up doing most of it, but we hung it up in the window so we can name the colors later.

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