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ABCs of Exploring Books with Children: A-H

January 7, 2013 By Deirdre

ABCs of Exploring Books with Children: Activity Ideas from R-Z

Many of you made New Year’s resolutions to do more with your children or to be better parents. The bloggers of the Kid Blogger Network are hosting a ABC event that will probably cover the area you wanted to work on. There are posts that contain lists with related post on Mom Tips and Tricks, School Activities, Learning Through Play, Literacy and Arts and Crafts.

ABCs of Exploring Books with Children: A-H

Click here to view all of the blog participating in the ABC event along with their topics.

Due to the fact that I host a weekly link up based on exploring concepts discussed in children’s books called Read.Explore.Learn, I thought my ABC list should be about about exploring books.

When I was a classroom teacher, I used books to introduce new concepts to my students all the time. Not every child came school with the same experiential background. By reading a book on a topic those who need some foundation building learned some facts on that topic and those that had already learned about that topic had their mind refreshed.

After reading a book, I think it is helpful for children to make a learning connection to the concepts that have just read. There are so many ways to explore books.

Today we will look at activities from A-H. Tomorrow I will cover activities from I-Q and on Friday I will share activities from R-Z.

Here are some of exploring books that we have tried at my house and others I have admired found on other blogs:

A

Album of Book Related Concepts

JDaniel and I read a book about Veteran’s Day and then talk about how his grandfather was veteran. We put photos of the types of planes he flew that I found on the internet and pictures of his grandfather. into an album.

Animal Snack

After reading the book Night Tree last Christmas, we made a snack for the birds to have and hung it from a tree we planted for JDaniel in our year.

Acting Out a Story

Whether it is the child acting out the story or having them use toys to do so helps them share what the story was about and what they learned from it. We used stuffed rabbits to retell the story Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

B

Bring a Meal

Bringing a meal like breakfast you made for Mom on Mother’s Day is a way to extend the concepts you heard in a book based on Mother’s Day.

Bug Counting

Simple materials like bug shaped erasers and bug box can be used to explore the counting concepts covered in a book like One Little Blueberry.

C

Craft Furniture

If a book has a specific piece of furniture that is featured in it, like the bed in Princess and the Pea. You can crease a simple bed with construction paper.
Compare to Another Story

After reading one book on farm life, JDaniel and I read another farm themed book. We then talked about the similarities and differences of the books.

Cookie Cutter Retelling

We happen to have a lot of cookie cutters at our house. It is fun to search through our bins of cookie cutters to find ones that relate to a story we have read. We can then use them to retell the story just as we did when we read Room for a Little One about the animals around Jesus in the manger.
Cards
After reading a Christmas story last year, JDaniel helped me make homemade thank you notes to send to friends and family.

Craft a Flower

Valentine’s Day and a Valentine’s Day book last year lead to JDaniel making craft that was a vase with flowers to give as a gift.

Cook a Dessert

My family loves haystack cookies so, after reading a book about a scarecrow we made some for dessert.

D

Dough Ornaments

Dough ornaments are fun to make. We made some last year after reading a book about Christmas ornaments.

Design Cardboard Transport System

After reading the book The Red Sled, we made a sled for JDaniel’s bear Ted to ride on just like the bear in the book.

E

Experiment with Concepts

JDaniel and I read a book about a world of ice cream and then we made our own ice cream by rolling a coffee can back and forth.

Eat a Snack Based on a Character

Just last month JDaniel and I had a snack based on the Hobbit after reading a simple picture book based on the book.

Experience Concepts of a Story

Last summer right before going to the beach we read a book about tide pools and when we went to the beach we build one.

Explore Emotions

After reading a book on pumpkins that talked about emotions, we played with a felt pumpkins emotions activity and talked about feelings.

F

Fake or Pretend Play

We haven’t had a lot of snow here in South Carolina, after reading a book about snow we played with fake snow (cotton balls) in a sensory bin.

Field Trips

Field Trips are a great way to extend concepts from a books. We have gone to visit an apple orchard after reading about one as well as a local garden after reading a garden related book.

Finger Puppets

Creating finger puppets like an elephant made of a recycled cd or a turkey out of a cardboard box are wonderful tools for retelling or extending a story.

G

Grab Similar Toys and Pretend

You may not always have a toy that is just like the characters in a book, but you can grab similar ones or have the toy pretend they are the character. We did that with a book based on ocean animals.

H

Hand Puppet

Hand puppets are great for retelling just as finger puppets are. We made a fox puppet to go along with a Dr. Seuss book that still comes out to retell his book along with other books.

Help a Character Dress Up

A simple outline of a character can be dressed up in clothes that wore in the story with cloth, paper, or other craft elements.

Reminder: Tomorrow I will be sharing ABCs of Exploring Books with Children- Part Two: I-P

For more literacy ABC posts you may want to visit the wonderful blogs below.

Books for Preschoolers from Mommy and Me Book Club
Early Literacy from Playdough to Plato
Graphic Novels from Pragmatic Mom
Learning to Read Through Play from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Learning to Write from NurtureStore
Reading Comprehension for Pre K-Grade 1 from The Wise Owl Factory
Storytelling from A Mom with a Lesson Plan

Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution – Read.Explore.Learn.

January 4, 2013 By Deirdre

Some of the links below are affiliate links.

Squirrel is so frustrated when it comes to make a New Year’s resolution. She helps each and everyone one of her friends make a their resolutions come to pass, but can’t decide on one of her own. By the end of Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller Squirrel with the aid or her friend Rabbit finds out what her resolution will be. In fact she is told by Rabbit that she has been doing it all New Year’s Day. What is Squirrel’s New Year’s resolution? Well, she will help someone everyday.I love the premise of this book. JDaniel and I tried to give a lot to others last year and we have continue to work on the 26 Acts of Kindness for Kids and Families list I posted two weeks ago. We will keep trying to work on our acts of kindess and help someone everyday too.

What did we do to explore Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution?

Squirrel Peek A Boo Squirrel played hide and seek at the bottom of her friend Skunk’s bed to make her happy when she was sick in bed. We played hide squirrel outside on a nice mostly warm day.

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution - Read.Explore.Learn.- Hide and Seek in the tree

Highlighted Handwriting

JDaniel has been practicing writing his name. This week I had him practice writing his name and the word squirrel with a pencil and a highlighter. He wrote with pencil on the words I wrote with a highlighter and with a highlighter over the words I wrote with pencil. Then I had him write some on his own.I love the idea of using a highlighter as a writing tool. I came cross this idea while visiting the blog Little Moments. It would be a great way work on New Year’s resolutions with kids too.

Stake the Perimeter

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution - Read.Explore.Learn. : Staking Out a Shape

Squirrel helped mole and turtle stake out land for their garden. JDaniel used game tokens and Styrofoam to stake out shapes. He was given yarn to mark off each area he staked. We are reviewing shapes and this was a fun way to work on that review.We have tons of Styrofoam leftover for Christmas present packaging. The game pieces are from a very old game. The game board fell apart and I save the tokens. JDaniel used his favorite rock to pound in the tokens. It is the perfect size for his hand to grasp. Then he used yarn to close in the shape.Here are some wonderful post that linked up last week:

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution - Read.Explore.Learn.- Marshmallow Snowman

Reading Confetti explored the book Snowmen All Year and made wonderful marshmallow snowman.

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution - Read.Explore.Learn. - Toddler Boys Snowman

Crafts and Life with Toddler Boys explored snowmen too. Their book was The Snowman and they made a wonderful snack too.Next week I promised to feature an exploration post that doesn’t involve food.

Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution was to help others. Do you make New Year’s resolutions?

12 Top Montessori Activities 2012

January 3, 2013 By Deirdre

A wonderful group of blogs that emphasis hands on learning called Montessori Bloggers is hosting a link called Top 12 Montessori Activities in 2012. JDaniel has always learned through hands on learning and playing with concepts. This past year provided him with various montessori activities that required he interact with concepts hands on. Many were included in my Read.Explore.Learn. posts. Others were shared in my Taking Time to Play series. Finally others were shared in posts I wrote for other blogs.

If you have Montessori activities that you have written about and shared on your blog I hope you will link them up below.

Here are some on mine:

12 Top Montessori Activities 2012 - Corn Cob Painting

JDaniel explored paint and texture while painting with corn in a post called Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share.

We explored Halloween safety rules and JDaniel explored how to follow them using the materials in this bin. The post was called Halloween Safety Rules and How to Review Them.

Placing bats alphabetically on a tomato cage that had been attached to clothes pins was one of the activities JDaniel did in a post called Baby Bats Lullaby- Read.Explore.Learn.

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JDaniel sorted beans using chopsticks and then created New Year’s Eve noisemaker shakers with them. He also added pom-poms and pipe cleaners to beans in a water bottle. He is still playing with his noise maker shaker.

Hours were spent exploring this New Year’s Eve sensory bin. JDaniel and I explored it. He played with all of the contents and then he explained how to play them to his dad.

We had the best time trying to find out how many pennies we would need to make the water spill out of the cup in this water displacement experiment that was shared on the Kids Activities Blog.

Early in the fall JDaniel and I gathered bits of nature at a local park. Then he tried to use various kitchen tools to transfer them from the kitchen table to a plate on the floor. We tried spatulas, chopsticks, a whisk, and several other tools. This activity appeared in the Kiwi Crate Studio. They called it Transferring with Tongs.

JDaniel and I made alphabet soup using foam letters and some plastic treasures. The goal was to scoop up the letters and search the pot for the matching treasure. This post was called Cooking Alphabet Soup and was a guest post for a blog called Actually Amy.

I learned by watching JDaniel explore Bristle Blocks in a post called Taking Time to Play- Follow His Lead. Learning beside and from my son has really taught me a lot about learning.

This simple weaving project was just supposed to be something JDaniel and I did one afternoon on our deck for our Christmas tree. The boy next door came over to see what we were doing and he ended up making a set to take home. They both loved that there wasn’t a wrong way to weave these ornaments. I shared this activity in a post called A Christmas Spider’s Miracle- Read.Explore.Learn.

One of the best things I bought JDaniel this year was a bag of buttons. He loved to sort them, explore them, and pattern with them. We spent hours playing “I Spy a Button..” I shared some of the ways we worked with buttons in a post on the Kids Activities Blog called Button Activities: Color Matching and More.

St. Patrick's Day Activities: Leprechauns Never Lie Learning Fun

JDaniel had the best time hunting for plastic shamrocks in baby wipe containers. The containers were filled with beans and he used various tools including a little rake to dig them up. The post that contains this activity is called Read.Explore.Learn.- Leprechauns Never Lie.

P. Bear’s New Years Eve Party Learning Activities

December 28, 2012 By Deirdre

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JDaniel and I read P. Bear’s New Year’s party! by Paul Owen Lewis. It declares on the cover that it is a counting book, but I think it is so much more. P.Bear decides to invite his friends to his house for a party. Among his invites is one whale, two horse, and three dairy cows. His guests continue to arrive in numeral order. The last group of guests to arrive is twelve penguins. Each type of animal arrives at the hour that matches the number in their group. Each animal’s page spread in the book includes a clock with the hour hand in red.
The only real colors in the book are red, white, and black. It took only a few arrivals in the book for JDaniel to notice that they were all black and white with red bow ties. It was fun to guess what other black and white animals would appear in the book.

What did we do to explore P. Bear’s New Years Eve Party?

Sequence Quilt

I search the internet to find the animals featured in P. Bear’s New Years Eve Party. I printed out the correct number of each animal from the internet and drew at grid on paper to represent a quilt. JDaniel started with the first patch (square) and glued the correct number of the first animal to appear in the story. He continued across the top row and when he had finished it. JDaniel moved down the the next.I had him count to make sure I had the correct number of each animal. This was a fun counting craft.

Moving Like An Animal Game

The outline of a black house like the one in P. Bear’s New Years Eve Party was cut out and glued to white paper. Then we glued one of each type of animal that visited in a window or doorway.I placed a bowl of sparkly pom poms on the table and JDaniel was asked to toss one onto the house. Then he and I made the animal noise or moved around the kitchen like the animal on whose picture the pom pom landed on. If pom pom didn’t land on an animal, we just tried again.

Great posts that linked up last week:

I really loved the Gingerbread Man Gift Wrap that the Educator’s Spin On It shared.

School Time Snippets did a variety of things with the book Stopping By The Woods On a Snowy Evening. I love the canvas they decorated.I need to apologize. I wasn’t able to visit and promote all the posts that linked up last week. It is on the top of my to do list for this week.How have you explored books this week? Please link up your post. Inlinkz isn’t displaying pictures or links this week. I will be pinning, Facebooking and Google + ing them to make up for this error.

New Year’s Eve Sensory Bin

December 27, 2012 By Deirdre

With New Year’s Eve coming up next week I thought JDaniel would enjoy exploring some of the elements of a New Year’s Eve celebration. A quick visit to our local five and dime and a rummage through cabinets provided a variety of objects for JDaniel to explore.

I filled a turkey roasting pan with some of the following New Year’s Eve sensory bin objects:

paper horns
plastic cups wrapped in sparkly pipe cleaners
streamers
black eyed peas and various beans
red plastic spoon
funny glasses
a tracing tool in the shape of a clock
cookies cutters for the number 1-9

JDaniel had a grand time looking over each element in the New Year’s Eve sensory bin. He sorted through everything to see exactly what was in the bin and how much of each item there was. Then he put in everything, but the glasses back in to play with. JDaniel had too wear the glasses. I knew he would love them.

There isn’t a right or wrong way to explore the New Year’s Eve sensory bin. You can fill cups or horns with beans. You can make all kinds of noises with the horns. You can stretch, throw, or wrap the streamers! The goal is too just have fun.

With this bin I sat with JDaniel and talked over each of the objects and why I had put them in the bin. With some bins I just let JDaniel dig in and play. He has a grand time playing and learning while he works with the various items in the bin.

What kinds of learning can be explored using a this New Year’s Eve sensory bin?

Language

Letter formation- The beans can be formed into letters as can the other objects in the bin.

Oral Communication- Children can talk about what they are doing as they explore.

Storytelling- Children can make up a story using objects in the bin as props.

Vocabulary Development- Parents can introduce holiday related words like celebration, countdown, etc..

Math

Number Sequence- Children can line up the cookie cutters in the correct order.

Measuring Volume- Children can measures how many spoonfuls of beans can fill a cup.

Measuring Length- Children can measure the length of the streamers.

Counting Objects- Children can count how many of each object there is.

Compare Numbers of Objects- Children can find object that there are more of than the horns.

Number Sentences- Children can add the number of cups to the number of cookie cutters.

Music

Homemade shaker- The beans can be put in the cup and a child can put the clock on the top of the cup and shake it.

Spoon Playing- Children can explore what objects make the loud or soft sounds when tapped with the spoon.

Horn Playing- Toot out songs and march around.

Fine Motor Skills

Clock Tracing– Children can use the clock tracing tool to create a clock as well as a specific time on a clock.

I bet you can come up with dozen of other ways to explore this bin. I bet your children can too.

If you are interested in learning more about sensory bins, you can check out the bins I have pinned on my Sensory Bin Pinterest board.

A Christmas Spider’s Miracle- Read.Explore.Learn.

December 21, 2012 By Deirdre

This week we read a wonderful Christmas story called A Christmas Spider’s Miracle. A very poor mom has very little to give her children for Christmas. She heads into the woods near by to find a tree. Her children deserve to at least have a tree. There will not be ornaments this year, but they can have tree. A very poor mother spider has very little to give her baby spiders. They are so cold out in the snow and there isn’t much too eat.

When the mom brings home a Christmas tree for her children, she doesn’t realize she is giving another family warmth. When the spider realizes what her children have been given, she decides to give the human family ornaments for their tree.

What did we do to explore A Christmas Spider’s Miracle?

JDaniel and I worked on ornaments that he could weave for the tree like the spider did in the book A Christmas Spider’s Miracle. I traced Christmas themed shapes onto cardboard from an empty cereal box. JDaniel and I then punched holes in the shapes.

Yarn was woven in and out of the holes to create a web like effect. I think they turned out well. Yes, I worked on the tree in the bottom left hand corner.

Here are some wonderful posts that were linked up last week:

Brainstorm in Bloom shared the wonderful ways they explored the Magic Tree House book Dinosaurs Before Dark.

Stay at Home Educator shared a wonderful space unit. I love all the activities she shared.

If you like this A Christmas Spider’s Miracle activity, here are some more spider themed activities you will enjoy doing with your kids:

Spider Web Frisbee Toss

Halloween Craft- Button Spider

Making Spider Eggs

Spider Alphabet Swatter

There are even more crafts and learning activities on my Early Learning board on Pinterest.

How have your been exploring books this week?

Taking Time to Play- Christmas Decorations

December 17, 2012 By Deirdre

Sometimes when we craft I just put out the craft supplies and we just explore ways to use them. JDaniel and I sometimes end up with similar end products and other times we come up with totally different ideas. This is exactly what happen when we made these Christmas decorations.

After gathering a small stack of paper plates I cut out several different shapes that we could work with. I cut them out freehand so some of them look a little off. The star really ended up being a little different looking.

Along with the paper plate cutouts, I put out a hole punch, scissors, glue, pipe cleaners, crayons, foam shapes, wiggly eyes, construction paper and some rick rack on the table. Then invited JDaniel to come and create.We had the best time watching each other work. We didn’t copy each other much, but we both were very much aware of what the other was doing. I loved stopping to admire the lasted additions to his creations. He has such great ideas.

Sometimes I leave JDaniel to craft on his own. As he has gotten busy with preschool and with kindergarten looming on the horizon, I have tried to work on craft with him. If we aren’t working on the same project, we are working on parallel projects a lot now.

JDaniel made a wonderful wreath. He loves the hole punch so, it wasn’t a surprise that he punched a number of holes into his wreath. I love the weaving he did through the holes with a sparkly pipe cleaner. The wiggly eyes make me think that this wreath is taking in all that is around it. The spots of color around the wreath are fun too. JDaniel just kept changing crayon colors and coloring one spot beside the other.

I made a torn paper wreath. I asked JDaniel if he wanted to help me tear the paper and he told me he was busy working on his wreath. An artist must have single focus when he is four.

I moved on to decorating one of the angel plates. It was fun to add a wiggly eye or two here and a pipe cleaner there. I didn’t pre-plan this craft as I had the wreath. I just went with the flow. JDaniel inspired me to loosen up a bit.

We both ended up working on trees as our final project. JDaniel noticed that I was just using green crayons to color my tree. At one point I had six or seven different shades of green in front of me. JDaniel decided he was going to use only blue and purple for his. I don’t think he know the song “Blue Christmas” ,but he sure made a wonderful blue Christmas tree.

I had the best time creating with JDaniel. I hope you will take time to play and create with your children today.

Here are some more Christmas decorations:

Ribbon Candy Ornaments

Threaded Tree Ornament

DIY Fine Motor Wreath

The Hobbit- Read.Explore.Learn

December 14, 2012 By Deirdre

The links below are affiliate links.This week we looked a simple children’s book that looks at a section of The Hobbit . It has amazing illustrations and only looks at brief section of the book. JDaniel really seemed to enjoy it. I think he will like reading or having the whole book read to him when he gets older.

JDaniel is a little like a Hobbit. He doesn’t have fur on the top of his week like they do, but he really like to snack like they do.

Here is the hobbit meal schedule:

1. Breakfast2. Second Breakfast

3. Elevensees

4. Lunch

5. Afternoon Tea

6. Super

What did we do to explore The Hobbit?

Well, I looked at a number foods mentioned in The Hobbit along with recipes for them. Pork pie was mentioned as one. I wasn’t sure I could convince JDaniel that he really wanted to try it. Biblo , the main character, was fond of seed-cakes. Again I wasn’t sure how he would feel about them. Buttered scones are a favorite of mine and I found that they were probably served during tea in the Shire where Biblo lived. I am great a buying scones but, I am not great a making them. My scone are a little rock like.

Rather than make a dish from the book I decided to make a bento meal with symbols from the book.

I made Gandalf’s hat out of a cracker and a cucumber. The “Precious” ring is made of Colby Jack cheese. There is a Hobbit’s door made of crackers, cheese and pickle. Biblo’s door was green from some reason. Finally there are Hobbit feet. The feet are made of whole grain bread, nut butter, a toasted coconut marshmallow and raisins. Hobbit’s have fur or hair on the top of their feet. I think that coconut looks a little hair like.

If you would like to see more Hobbit themed meals, you can head to Biting the Hand That Feeds You! They are the next part of the Hobbit hop that this post is also apart of .

Here are some wonderful non- Hobbit posts that linked up last week.

I love the little owls that Like Mama~Like Daughter made after reading Little Owl’s Night. We read Little Owl’s Night and loved it too.

Fantastic Fun and Learning read One Snowy Night and then made the most adorable hedgehog. I bet Bilbo might have seen these animals on his travels in The Hobbit.How have you explored books this week?

Christmas Activities- Christmas Treasure Tree

December 11, 2012 By Deirdre

One of the things on our list of twenty five things to do before Christmas was to go visit the Festival of Trees in downtown Greenville at the Hyatt Hotel. JDaniel’s preschool had sponsored and decorated a tree that was to be on display and I wanted him to see it. JDaniel’s school tree had a Happy Birthday to Jesus theme. It was such fun to see the birthday hats that his teacher has worked on right there on the tree.There were many trees on display. I think that there were at least twenty five of them. Some displayed a theme that fit the business that had sponsored the tree and others were decorated by school using homemade ornaments. On the way home I thought about all those uniquely decorated and beautiful trees. There weren’t any that were the same. Each displayed the personality of its designer. We needed to have one of our Christmas activities be decorating our own personal tree.

Christmas Activities- Christmas Treasure Tree

We have a three foot tree that we put out for JDaniel upstairs that had yet to be decorated. Seeing all those wonderful trees gave me an idea. Why not have JDaniel decorate the tree with recycled treasures. He loves to collect treasures and used them to create with.

JDaniel and I scoured the house and garage looking for things that he could use to decorate the tree.

Here are some of the things we found for our Christmas activities treasure tree:

Mardi Gras Beads
Hawaiian Lei
Netting From a Bag of Sweet Potatoes
Bottle Caps and Lids
Tulle from last Christmas
Stickers leftover from decorating Party Hat Christmas Trees
Ribbons and Bows
Bread Tags

After we had gathered all the items that could be used to decorate, JDaniel started creating. This was going to be a “Do Your Own Thing” tree JDaniel informed me.

He had a wonderful time putting things on the tree and taking them off. Things were placed over and over again in new spots. Decorating a tree is very serious business and he was going to make sure it was done well. He did a great job with the tree. I love the idea of a Hawaiian lei garland and bow star.

The lei ended up being decorated with foam stickers as did old jar lids and the tree limbs themselves. It was such fun to sit back and watch him work. Old bread tags made wonderful ornaments and ribbon pieces were shoved (placed) into branches to make really whimsical decorations.

He is going to redecorate this tree many times until Christmas I think. It will be fun to watch him create and recreate decorations. I don’t mind I love that he has made recycled treasures into a wonderful Christmas treasure three. He also worked on his small motor, creativity, and planning skills while doing it.

Here are some more Christmas activities:

Fine Motor Christmas Activities

Sight Word Christmas Tree

You will find more Christmas activities on my Christmas Learning Activities board on Pinterest.

What sensory activities have your children been working on?

The Lonely Scarecrow Activities for Kids

November 23, 2012 By Deirdre

This week we read a wonderful book called The Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston and did a few scarecrow activities. The scarecrow is placed in a field to scare the local animals away from the farmer’s crop, but doing what he was created to do leaves him lonely. He longs to get to know the local animals and finally have friends. Yet they can’t get past his scary face and flapping coat.All through the spring and fall he watches the animals play wishing he could be part of their fun. When winter draws near, the animals scurry to find warm winter homes and he is left alone.

When the snow arrives, the scarecrow is covered from head to toe in it and the animals think he is a snowman. The animals come out to play on and around him. Yet he was afraid that they would fear him again when the snow melted.

Thank goodness they remember who their friend is on the inside when spring comes and his scary features reappear.

Here are our Lonely Scarecrow Activities for Kids:

Haystack Cookies

My sister in law Marcia make the most wonderful haystacks and brings them to our family Thanksgiving celebration. Her version contains peanut butter and chow mein noodles. JDaniel avoids everything with peanut butter in it even though he has decided he likes peanuts. We made our haystacks with chocolate and butterscotch chips, marshmallows, and chow mein noodles to take to our family’s Thanksgiving celebration.

JDaniel thinks they are wonderful!

Measurement Activity with Scarecrow

The Lonely Scarecrow Activities for Kids- Measuring a Scarecrow

JDaniel made this wonderful scarecrow in preschool a few weeks ago. We have had him hanging on our refrigerator. Recently we took him down and used inch cubes to measure him.