C for Clouds

Go lay outside and find shapes in the clouds

Make cloud dough

Flights of Whimsy

Using cottonballs and construction paper create the different types of clouds

I for Ice and Igloos

Ice Tunnels

(printable instructions included!)

Art and Creativity

B for Beaver

Mrs. Arts, Mr. Crafts

January Activity-a-day

It's been a while since my last posting and I apologize, I've been really busy with my LDS Blog getting everything ready for Primary 2012. But now that's pretty much done with and now I can come back with fun activities :) So... here's January's calendar of activities.
On top of each of these activities, we are going to try each day to do a fun little LDS preschool activity that I found on Confessions of a Slacker Mom that we are really excited to jump into, feel free to join us! :)

DOWNLOAD HERE

2nd- Homemade Oreo Cookies (I've been wanting to do these for a couple weeks but never got around to it with the holidays. I'll just be omitting the peppermint extract)
3rd- From Becoming Sensible

5th- Create "letters" using stickers, stamps, foamies etc and mail them. You never know when friends will play  along. I think we'll send ours to grandparents and a couple friends in the neighborhood (neighborhood just go to their house and stick it in their mailbox, save on the stamps)

Photo and Idea Source: The Mother Huddle

6th- This activity is a great one for a snowy day (let's hope there's snow by then)
Here's some links to some great sites that have flannelboard ideas and templates:
Storytime Katie - AWESOME one of my favorites
Mouse, Mouse Color Game
a "house" freebie LOVE

9th- If you don't have hula hoops you could use masking tape on the floors made into squares, or you could use yarn or string.
10th- No pudding in site? Yogurt would be a fun alternative!
11th- My absolute favorite playdough recipe (scroll down)
And HERE'S some fun playdough mats to practice counting
12th- Using contact paper BRILLANT!

Photo and Idea Source: Share and Remember

16th- LOVE THIS!

Photo and Idea Source: Meet the Dubiens

18th- Coloring: Here's a few websites that offer free coloring pages
http://www.123coloring.com/
http://pbskids.org/games/coloring.html

19th- Name Soup -adds the fun times of water and learning :)

Idea and Photo Source: House of Baby Piranha

20th- Perfect fine motor activity, maybe all at the dollar store?

Photo and Idea Source: Pink and Green Mama

24th- I'm really excited about this one, and I'm going to throw in some "castle stickers" for him to play with. But I'm thinking that I may make it all into a magnet activity with sheets from Walmart. So that we can keep it on the fridge and he can play with it whenever.

Photo and Idea Source: Playing House in Maryland

Puppy and Green Dino Puzzles

L-Pad LOVES puzzles and would do them all day if there was enough variety, so in addition to the activity-a-day we are also going to play with puzzles!! First we're going to put it together so that he knows what it's suppose to look like and then I"m going to put the pieces into our rice bin and he'll have to find all the pieces and put it together (loves that too) and I wanted to share :) I'll be gluing these onto construction paper, you can also laminate them for later use :)

* the numbers on the puzzles will be to help him if he gets frustrated with just looking at the picture or we can count (our triumph from yesterday) and put the puzzles together.

DOWNLOAD 8X8 HERE

DOWNLOAD 8X8 HERE

November Activity-a-Day

Happy Moment of my day: L-Pad has a speech delay and so for a typical 3 year old this became a triumph a long time ago. He counted to 10 all my himself!! My favorite is 7, he pronounces it "seben"
Simple joys of life!

I am going to start making a monthly calendar with an activity for each day for L-Pad(3) and I wanted to share. I'll be getting the December one out soon. Please feel free to change and alter the activity to suit you and your family or the weather :)

DOWNLOAD 8.5X11 HERE

*on the calendar indicates a link or instructions
8th-using a container (yogurt, cottage cheese, etc), cut a slit it the lid. Then push poms- poms in through the slit.
9th- Combine food coloring to bubble mix then blow onto paper
10th-Pumpkin Pie Playdough by Dinosaurs and Octopuses
11th-using a tray of flour (salt, sand, sugar, etc) practice letter writing in the flour by showing flashcards.
12th- using Mod Podge (don't have any- make some) and scrapbook paper, mod podge paper to the 2 long sides of each Jenga piece then let dry and PLAY
13th- Find and download game from my LDS blog.
14th- Cut out different colors out of construction paper and tape/tack to the floor in no particular order. Then start by calling out a color, you must get from the start to the finish stepping/jumping on only that color. Then do it again calling out a different color.
15th- Go HERE for the recipe of  Troll Boogers, spread out some drop cloth just in case :)
16th- Foam Bathroom Mural by Filth Wizardry (you don't need to be taking a bath :)
17th- Put pasta, food coloring and about 2 squirts of hand sanitizer (MUST have alcohol) in a medium ziploc, shake around, then let out to dry, you can also use rubbing alcohol
18th- Printable coming soon!!
19th- Lofthouse Sugar Cookie and Frosting Recipe
21st- Activity to come soon right here on Frogs in My Pockets
22nd- Fingerpainting corn husk by All Kids Network
23rd- Using the streamers you can find at the dollar store, make an obstacle course in a hallway. Crawling over and under to get the end.
26th-Jell-o Excavation by Tinker Lab
29th- using printouts from the internet play a matching game by cutting the pictures in half, printing out 2 of each, play a game by hiding one of the printouts and seeking it out to make a match, and you can also using plastic animals make a match with the printouts.

Matching Bag

Photo and Idea Source: Little Hands, Big Work

Just like a matching game with cards. You start by pulling out a critter from the bag then just "finding" it's match by only feeling inside the bag. If you get a match AWESOME if not both pieces go back into the bag.

                                                                              OR

You could put each critter out on the tray and then have it's mates inside the bag,  trying to get a match that way.