stART ~ 10 Little Rubber Ducks

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART. 

This week I was the Special Reader for Emily’s Preschool class and I don’t know who was more excited about it, Emily or myself!   Emily and I picked out 10 Little Rubber Ducks, by Eric Carle to share with her class.  This book  was inspired by a real shipment of bathtub toys that fell off of a container ship and floated to various places.  In this story, 10 Little Rubber Ducks are made in a factory and packaged and shipped.  Then on their way over the water a fierce storm knocks a box overboard and into the ocean.  The 10 rubber ducks float in various directions until the 10th one finds a real duck and her ducklings.  I love the fun way that this book incorporates ordinal numbers, as well as directional words (over, under, north, south).  Emily, Juliette and I think Emily’s whole class LOVED the special squeaking sound that is on the last page of the book, it definitely adds a special touch especially when you are reading it to a group of kids!!

To go along with this book I set up a project for Emily to do when she came home from school.  I love Eric Carle’s illustrations so we made ducks in the ocean inspired by the cover of this book.

I gave the girls a  duck template (click on the picture above for a free download) that I drew on a piece of construction paper.  

First they glued on pieces of yellow tissue paper for the body and orange tissue paper for the beaks.

When they were finished the glued on a blue wiggly eye.

For the water Juliette decided to finger paint the piece of paper.  I gave them a few different shades of blue and some green to make it look like the picture on the cover.

Emily used the same colors, but she decided she wanted to use a brush.

When everything was dry the girls glued their ducks onto the water backgrounds.

Emily’s Little Rubber Duck

Juliette’s Little Rubber Duck

Juliette loved this project and was so proud of it, she asked if she could hang it in her room when it was ready!

stART ~ Who Hoots?

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART.  **This is a work in progress so if you have participated at least 3 times and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

This week we enjoyed Who Hoots?, by Katie Davis.  This was one of Emily’s favorite books as a toddler and she continues to enjoy it now as a preschooler.  The books starts with the question “Who Hoots?” and then it is followed by a bunch of animals that don’t hoot.  Finally it says that an Owl does not hoot which is wrong and very funny to little kids.  It goes on to say that “Of course an Owl Hoots” and give a little snippet of information about the owl.  This is repeated with a few other animal sounds and at the end they want to know who can make all of these sounds?  Can you guess who???

To go along with this book we made some really cute paper plate owls.

All you need are 2 paper plates (0ne of the paper plates I trimmed the top off of to form the ears the other one was left whole), brown paint, and yellow, white and black construction paper.  First the girls painted their paper plates.  I squirted the paint right onto the plates and they used their fingers and paint brushes to cover the plate with. I cut out Juliette’s owl eyes and she glued the circles together.

Emily cut out the circles for her owl’s eyes and glued them together. They added a triangle for the nose.

Then cut one of the paper plates in half and glued them onto the other paper plate to make the wings.

Emily’s Owl

I think Emily’s owl looks like it is trying to shake some ones hand!

Juliette’s Owl

I like how Juliette’s is peeking to the left, they are next to each other above the door, so it looks like he is looking at Emily’s owl.

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stART ~ The Easter Chick

 

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week we read The Easter Chick , by Geraldine Elschner.  This is a cute story about a little chick that wants to be born on Easter Sunday.  All the animals in the barnyard are not really sure when that is since it always falls on a different date each year.  The old owl however, helps the mother hen and her chick to know when Easter Sunday is.  The story is well written and the illustrations are beautiful.

We made some really cute Easter Chicks hatching from their eggs to go along with this book!

Emily and Juliette decorated a yellow oval piece of construction paper with yellow markers, feathers and tissue paper.  Then they added a white half shell and yellow wings.  Then they glued on two wiggly eyes and a orange beak.  Although I had everything prepared in advance they were able to put their chicks together however they liked.

I love seeing how each one comes out looking different even though they had all of the same supplies to work with :0)

Emily’s chick

(the black is where the shell is cracking some more)

Juliette’s Chick

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stART ~ Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

 

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures so that everyone can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

I added a stART tab in my navigation bar to make it easier to search for past stART projects. Be sure to check it out!! All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

This week Emily has been talking about the zoo nonstop!  We were supposed to go to the zoo on Sunday, but were unable to go because it ended up raining all day.  Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will be able to go this weekend.  In preparation for our trip to the zoo we have been reading all of the books we have about the zoo.  So far Emily’s favorite is Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?, by Bill Martin Jr.  This book  uses a fun repetitive and predictable text to introduce children to the different animals that can be found at the zoo and the sounds that they make.  I loved that by the middle of the book Emily was helping me read it! 

After reading the book I asked Emily which animal she would want to have in her own zoo.  She picked the peacock, and right away I knew Emily would love to make the pretty peacock pictures that I saw on The Frugal Family Fun Blog. 

Once Emily’s picture was finished I knew we had to put her peacock in a cage like at the zoo.  So we used an old styraphone lunch tray and some yarn to make a cage.

Emily glued her peacock picture to the tray

Emily used a blunt tip yarn needle to sew through the holes that I made in the styraphone tray. 

I helped her go back and forth into the correct holes, but otherwise she did this on her own.  My mom has been working with her on doing plastic canvas so she is used to sewing.

 

Emily’s Pretty Peacock at the zoo.

stART ~ In My Backyard

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures so that everyone can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

I added a stART tab in my navigation bar to make it easier to search for past stART projects. Be sure to check it out!! All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.

We have been spending a lot of time outside in our backyard these past few weeks so when I saw In My Backyard, by Margriet Ruurs  at the library I knew Emily would enjoy it.  The beautiful folded paper illustrations led to many discussions about the creatures that you can find in the backyard throughout the different seasons.  I thought that they were the perfect complement to the simple text.  Emily also loved hunting for the little lady bug in each picture. 

This week I asked her what she wanted to make for her stART project after we read the book.  She said a bird so I cut out a template of a bird and gave her the do-a-dot markers, feathers, glue and a wiggly eye and let her make her bird.

Emily colored the bird in with the do-a-dot markers.

I cut out the body of the bird and then made a slit in the middle to put the wings through.

Then she asked for some glitter glue instead of the regular glue.

She added lots and lots of feathers

 

Emily’s Bird

Robin Paper Plate

A Robin to Welcome in Spring!!

Spring is almost here and we are getting ready. We read the book "Wake Up, It's Spring!" written by Lisa Campbell Ernst since we are so excited for spring. We have been hearing the birds singing more and more around here so I thought it would be fun to make this Robin Paper Plate.

Emily painted a small paper plate with brown paint.

Emily painted a large paper plate with brown paint.

I drew a red circle in the middle and told her to paint the brown around the red circle.

Emily painted over my red circle with red paint.

After everything dried I cut the solid brown paper plate in half. Emily glued on 2 googly eyes, a beak and feet that I cut out of yellow construction paper.

We glued all the plates together and punched a hole in the top and put a pipe cleaner through it so we could hang it up!