Butterfly Fingerplay and Song
Roly-Poly Caterpillar
Roly-poly caterpillar (wiggle right pointer finger)
Into a corner crept, (place right pointer finger in left cupped hand)
Spun around himself a blanket (spin around)
Then for a long time slept. (place head on folded hands)
Roly-poly caterpillar (wiggle right pointer finger)
Wakening by and by, (“stretch” right pointer finger)
Found himself with beautiful wings
Changed to a butterfly. (flutter arms like wings)
Oh, Butterfly!
Sung to: “Oh Christmas Tree”
Oh, butterfly, Oh, butterfly
How I love your colors.
Oh, butterfly, Oh, butterfly
How I love your colors.
You fly so high and beautiful,
You are so soft and gentle.
Oh, butterfly, Oh, butterfly,
How I love your colors.
Pollen! Pollen! Go Away! JDaniel wants to go out and play!
On Sunday as we got in the car to go to my mothers-in-law in Georgia JDaniel must have touched a little of the green pollen that coated my husband’s car. He started rubbing his eyes within minutes of getting in the car. I washed his hands and face with Cetaphil to clean them off. (I carry small bottles on Cetaphil in his diaper bag.) He continued to rub his face and cry, “Eyes hurt.” I sit in the backseat with him when we go on road trips. It was breaking my heart to see him in pain. So, I did what I thought was best. I took him illegally out of his car seat and held him. Yes, he should have stayed in his seat. Did he stop rubbing? Yes, he wrapped his arms around me, put his head on my shoulder, and rubbed only every so often.
He was fine traveling in the car around Augusta. JDaniel started rubbing his neck on the way back home last night. This morning he woke up with a rash on his face and puffy eyes. I gave him a bath and thankfully had lotion left from an allergic reaction to grass last summer along with his daily dose of Claritin. The dermatologist can see him tomorrow. I hope we get a good rain soon. Until we do we will be playing inside.
Are you having trouble with pollen now?
I know we need pollen and butterflies and bees love it. Right now I just want it to go away!
Easter Quotes
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. ~St Augustine
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great Posts I Came Across This Week- April 3
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Here are some child-related posts:
Picky Apple has a great way to paint using a salad spinner in her Tot School post this week.
Teach Mama has a post on What You Need From Your Local Yard Sales. It includes a cheat sheet in a PDF you can take with you to yard sales.
Counting Coconuts has an Easter sensory tub that I would love to have made for JDaniel.
Fun Easter Post:
Dawns Daily Life has really funny Easter comics on a post called Easter Humor and Joy. The chocolate bunny ones are my favorite.
12 Ways to Learn Using Plastic Easter Eggs
1. You can place a toy in a stack of eggs and search for the one with the prize.
2. You can put a capital letter on one end of an egg and its lower case letter on the other. Break them open, mix them up, and have your child search for the match. I did eggs with matching capital letters for JDaniel.
3. You can put together a set of toys or pictures and have your child put them in the egg that has the beginning letter on it.
4. You can put a number on one end of the egg and a set of corresponding dots on the other end. They can then match the tops and bottoms or place the correct number of objects in the egg.
5. You can mix up the colors of the tops and bottoms then have your child match the colors correctly.
6. You can make maracas with whole grain circular cereal. Just watch that is doesn’t come apart and become a bowl for a snack.
7. You can put objects in the eggs and have the children match the sounds like Activity Mom did this week.
8. You can put them in a plastic spoon and try to carry them around the house.
9. You can sort them by colors.
10. You can use them like cupcake liners for Muffin Tin Monday.
11. You can make a nest with blocks; fill it with eggs, place in a toy bird, and talk about signs of spring.
12. You can read the list of 50 Uses for Plastic Easter Eggs found of Geeky Housewife’s blog.
Kate and One Special Egg
My mom loves to tell the story of my sister Kate and her one special egg. Mom and Kate were at an Easter egg hunt that featured one special golden egg. For some reason my mom decided that egg was going to be theirs. Kate must have been about two and at this hunt two year olds were allowed to have their moms accompany them on their hunt for eggs. My mom spotted the golden egg in the field and tried to guide Kate to the egg. Kate had another plan. She had noticed a plastic egg sitting in the grass that she really wanted. Once she reached the egg she had been focused on, she sat down and started playing with it. My mom could still see the golden egg out of the corner of her eye. She really wanted to go over and pick it up for Kate, but decided not to. If Kate had the one special egg she wanted, that would have to be enough.
The way my mom tells the story I don’t think she has fully gotten over Kate’s deciding not to go for the golden egg. I hope that I will let JDaniel find and appreciate the things he enjoys and not pushing him to go for my golden egg dreams.
Almost Wordless- Easter Eggs and Books
Today I am going to share with your an Easter egg dyeing experience JDaniel has with his friend Morgyn. At the end of the post, you will find some of my favorite Easter egg themed books. You may want to read with your children before they dye eggs.
JDaniel and his friend Morgyn had a great time dying eggs.
JDaniel and I read these books about Easter eggs before Morgyn came over.
These are the finished eggs.
These Easter egg hunt books would be fun to share.
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Remembering Blessings Daily
A few weeks ago the pastor of our church encouraged us to think about praying as he does. He starts by thanking God for all the blessings of the previous day. Then he prays for the things and people he will encounter on that day. Finally he prays for things that are coming up that week.
Here are some blessings from yesterday:
JDaniel and I had a wonderful time at playgroup. We are so blessed to have wonderful people to play and visit with each week.
JDaniel took a nice refreshing nap yesterday afternoon. He has been hit or miss with naps lately. It was refreshing that he took at great one yesterday.
We have house with a big backyard to play in. The weather warmed up and we had a great time playing.
My husband has a job to go to. Not everyone can say that. We have friends that have been out of work for several months. They have said Monday is the hardest day of the week for them.
Muffin Tin Muffin- Blue and Purple Foods
JDaniel and I had fun tracking down blue and purple foods. BiLo had purple cauliflower on special this week and we found the purple potatoes from Peru at Whole Foods.
His tin contained blue tortilla chips, blueberries, purple potatoes (They are boiled in the picture above. I later mashed them.), meatloaf (non-purple meatloaf), a blueberry muffin and a little of the purple cauliflower. I was shocked when he asked for more potatoes and cauliflower. I wasn’t shocked that he wanted more of the muffin.
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