Button Letters!

Day 1 of the Week. The theme this week is Fun with Buttons!

Project - Button Letters. I thought it would be fun to make a keepsake for Addie and Caitlyn to hang in their rooms. So, I went to the website http://www.coloringcastle.com/ and printed off a capital A for Addie and a C for Caitlyn. I cut each letter out and glued them to a piece of 8x8 white card stock. Next, I covered the letters with craft glue. Caitlyn and I used buttons to cover the letters. Caitlyn covered her C with buttons and covered Addie's A with buttons. I am going to frame the letters in a shadow box frame. I am going to hang Addie's letter in her new room - it should look cute with her yellow walls! :) Materials Needed: white card stock, block letter template, buttons, craft glue, scissors, frame (optional)

C for Caitlyn and A for Addie!

Frame Magnet

Day 1 of the week - Our theme this week is School - again! The letter of the week is J, j and the numbers of the week are 0 and 1.
Project - Popsicle Stick Frame Magnet. Connor and Lauren each painted 4 (wide) Popsicle sticks. After the paint was dry, they glued the 4 sticks together to make a square. Then they decorated the outside of the frame with buttons. After they were done decorating, I glued a magnet on the back of the frame. Connor used his frame to frame one of his drawings on the frig! Materials Needed - wide craft sticks, paint, paintbrushes, craft glue or hot glue, buttons or other decorations, magnets

Connor and Lauren having fun with their frames!

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
The letter J, j - writing, recognition
The number 1 -recognition, writing, counting, following directions
The concept less - following directions, recognition
The concept different - recognition, following directions,
The concept over - recognition, following directions, cutting, pasting

Key Tag Name Picture Frames!

Day 2 of our week - The theme this week is Our Name. The letter of the week is F, f and the number of the week is 5.

Key Tag Name Picture Frame

Project - Key Tag Name Picture Frames. I was trying to think of a fun project that involved the kids names and would be appealing to the eye. I had a bunch of these key tags and different letter stickers. While I was in Wal-Mart I saw the foam craft frames and voila' the whole project came together!! First Connor and Lauren found the letters for their names and stuck the stickers in order on the key tags. I hot glued one end of some fishing line onto the top corner of the frame. Then, we strung the key tags on the fishing line to spell Connor and Lauren. Then, I hot glued the other end of the fishing line to the frame. Connor and Lauren chose stickers and decorated the rest of their frames. (this was their idea) I stuck stickers over the ends of the fishing line to hide the hot glue. Now all we have to do is find pictures to go in the frames. Materials needed - foam craft frame (or other type of frame), key tags, fishing line, hot glue gun, scissors, stickers.

Connor searching for the letters in his name

Lauren looking for the r for her name

Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:

The letter F - recognition, writing, beginning sounds, following directions

The number 5 - recognition, one-to-one correspondence, writing, following directions

Shape Review - recognition, following directions

The concepts beginning and first - recognition, following directions