stART ~ If You Give a Pig a Party

Welcome to stART!  I am sorry I didn’t post last week, but we were all recovering from a horrible stomach virus and then preparing for Emily’s 5th Birthday Party.  We are back and 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 we have been reading If You Give A Pig A Party, by Laura Numeroff.  The girls love all of the books in the “If You Give A…” series by Laura Numeroff.  This one was especially perfect since we have been busy celebrating Emily’s 5th (Oh my goodness how is she 5 already!!) birthday.  The story line is simple but very cute, it tells  about all the funny things that happen if you give a party for a pig. The book kept both Emily and Juliette engaged in the story and is also wonderful for teaching cause and effect.

For this story we thought it would be fun to make a big and since we had some pink balloons leftover from Emily’s Party we used them, the girls were so excited to do some crafting with a balloon!  It is always fun to see how they react to new or different craft/art supplies :)

  I drew the shapes for the pig on pink construction paper and the girls cut them out.

Then they colored them and added details with crayons.

Next, they taped the ears and snout on to the pink balloon.

 

Finally, and I think their favorite part was using the black marker to make the eyes and mouth.

Emily and Juliette’s Partying Balloon Pigs!!!

Field Trip Fun ~ Suffolk County Farm and Education Center

We went to the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center with Cousin Brianna and Aunt Jayme and my friend Sarah.  This is a real working farm with lots of animals to pet and feed.  Sarah arranged for us to have educator take us on a tractor ride and guided tour which was really nice.  While we were there we were able to see the farmers working and ask them questions too.  The coolest thing about this farm is that although we had to pay for the tractor ride and tour anyone can come and just visit it for FREE!  They sell the food for the petting area, but you can just come and walk around and look at the animals any time. 

Buckled up and Ready to go!! 

Welcome to the farm :) The girls and me on the tractor ride.

Our Tractor driver.

 

Emily and Juliette taking in the sites of the farm from the tractor ride.

We saw…

horses,

  lhamas,

         

machinery,

pigs, goats and cows.

Next we went to the petting area where the kids could pet the animals and also feed them.

Juliette liked looking at them at first.

Emily LOVED feeding them!

Once of the goats needed to be moved from one pen to another so we were able to help, while he was walking the kids were able to feed and pet him.  It was nice that they were able to get so close to him.

  Juliette and I fed one of the little goats.  I was so happy that she finally gave it a try.  After that we fed a lot more together!

This cow was moved into the pen of the goat we helped move.  He had a hurt leg.

This is one of the chickens from the chicken pen.  The kids were also able to see a fresh laid egg. The last animal we saw was a cute lop eared rabbit.The girls had fun playing in the Nature Explore Classroom, there were lots of fun things to play on.  They really enjoyed the tree trunk climbing structures.We finished the day with a picnic lunch under a covered arbor house.  It was the perfect end to a fun filled farm day! 

The farm really tired them out, all three fell asleep for the whole ride home!

stART ~ Moo, Moo, Peekaboo!

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 reading Moo, Moo, Peekaboo!, by Jane Dyer.  I actually bought this book from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. for my youngest brother over 17 years ago!  I was going through books at my mom’s house and came across it.  I loved it when I bought it and I am so happy that I can now share it with my children!  It is a simple and cute board book.  On each page the animal that is featured on the following page is peeking through to give you a hint as to who it is.  Both Emily and Juliette loved reading along with me and guessing the animals and making the sounds.  Although it is a board book, my 4 1/2 year old loves it!!

I had big plans of making a peek-a-boo style project with pictures peeking through cutouts in paper, but Emily found some craypas and came up with her own project…and I have to say I LOVE IT! 

Emily hard at work on her picture.

She drew this picture all by herself and was so proud of it, I think it goes with the book perfectly!

   This is the Farmer. These are the animals…there is a horse, cow, chicken and sheep.

I love all the little details like how they are behind the fence!

Read and Stamp

Emily is so excited that she is starting to read so I thought that she would have a lot of fun with this read and stamp activity.

My dad found this Melissa & Doug Baby Farm Animals Stamp Set at our Church’s White Elephant Sale last year for a really great price.  I tucked it away and thought it would be the perfect thing to use for this activity. 

I folded a piece of white paper to make 8 even spaces.  At the top of each box I wrote the directions.  For example, I see 4 red pigs.

  First, Emily read the directions.

  Then she used the animal stamps to fill in the boxes.

Emily was so careful to pick the right stamp, the right color and to count as she was stamping the animals throughout this whole activity.  She did this whole activity on her own.  When she had trouble with any of the names of the animals she looked at the stamps that she did not use yet and made the sound of the first letter of the name to help her figure it out.

This activity can also be done with farm animal stickers.  I just noticed that I have a set in my sticker box, so I might try it another day that way!

 

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stART ~ Duck on a Bike

 

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

This week we read Duck on a Bike, by David Shannon.  This is a really cute book about a duck that decides to take a bike for a ride around the farm.  All the animals think duck is silly, but at the end you get to see how they really feel!

Since Emily has been enjoying cutting and coloring I thought it would be fun for her to make Duck on a bike.  I found a duck printable and a bike printable for her to color and cut out.

 

Emily colored in the bike and the duck.  She used red since the duck road a red bike in the book.

 

Emily cut out the duck and the bike all by herself.

Emily glued white feathers onto the duck and then glued everything onto a piece of construction paper.

 

Emily’s Duck on a Bike!!