stART ~ The Turkey Ball

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 and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

 

The Turkey Ball, by David Steinberg is one of Emily and Juliette’s favorite books.  This is a cute rhyming story about some turkey’s who get all dressed up and spend the night dancing.  It is a lot of fun to read this book, which is good since we read if very often :)

For our project we made collage turkeys.   First I cut a paper plate in half and the girls decorated it with do a dot markers.

Next, I gave them all our collage materials and they were able to decorate it however they wanted.  I love having a bag of collage material that I can just dump out onto the table.  It makes it so much easier than having to look through and collect a little of everything. 

Finally they glued on the pieces of the turkey’s body. 

Emily’s Turkey

  Juliette’s Turkey

Now it is your turn!! Click below to link up a book you read and the project or activity that you did to go with it.

stART ~ Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

 

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 and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

This week we read Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert.  This is a great book that explains the life cycle of a tree.  As always Lois Ehlert’s textural collages are stunning.  As we are reading we love seeing all the different items that are used to create the pictures. 

We actually decided to read this book after Emily came home with her Art Project from school.  They made leaf prints and it reminded me of the cover of the book.  

We actually did leaf prints at home with our art group at the beginning of autumn too.  They are so much fun to make and even the littlest kids (15 months old) were able to get involved and make great prints!

  Now it is your turn!! Click below to link up a book you read and the project or activity that you did to go with it.

stART ~ One Red Apple

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 have been having fun with apples and One Red Apple, by Harriet Ziefert went along perfectly with everything we have been doing.  This is a beautifully illustrated story of the life cycle of an apple tree, from tree to market tree to market, to picnic, to seed, to sapling and tree, and finally to a new apple.  I think Emily loved it because she is always saving the seeds from foods to plant in our garden!

To go along with this book I found this Apple Life Cycle Poem Craft on Pinterest  and new Emily would love making it.

First, I cut out the pieces for Juliette because she wanted to do exactly what Emily was doing.  Then I had Emily cut out her own pieces.  I drew some of the pieces on the paper as a guide and some she wanted to do herself. 

Next, the girls glued the pieces on the blue paper which we folded into 4 equal spaces.  Emily did this part completely on her own, it was like a puzzle for her.  For Juliette I helped her by telling her where to place the pieces (ex.  Glue the red circle in the middle of the first square).  I was really happy with how for the most part she listened to the directions and then followed them.  I just had to point to the box that she had to put the pieces in.  If it was not perfectly placed I did not move it.

Then they used little red dot stickers for the apples in the apple tree.  Juliette also wanted green apples in her tree so she added those too.

Finally, I wrote the words to the poem and we read them together.  After thinking about it I would have liked to write the words on separate pieces of paper and have Emily match them on her own.

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stART ~ Franklin’s Thanksgiving

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 Franklin's Thanksgiving,  by Paulette Bourgeois.  Emily enjoyed this sweet story about Franklin the Turtle.  He is sad that his Grandparent’s can not make it to celebrate Thanksgiving, but Franklin and is parents decide to surprise each other by invite all of their friends to come over.  They end up having so many guest that they don’t know where to put everyone.  Until Franklin has a great idea and the family starts a whole new special Thanksgiving tradition.

Emily and I talked about our Thanksgiving Traditions and then made another Turkey decoration for our Thanksgiving Celebration out of leaves that fell from the tree in our front yard.

It was fun to go on another leaf hunt to find the leave that looked like feathers for the Turkey.  Emily glued them onto a piece of construction paper.

Next, she glued the Turkey Body over the leaves.  I cut the body out of construction paper for her.

After that she glued on the beak and snood that were cut from craft foam.

Finally she asked for a green marker to draw the eyes and orange to draw the feet.  She told me that some people have green eyes so her turkey could too.

   Emily’s Finished Leaf Turkey

Sensory Fun ~ Fall Fabric Leaves, Popcorn and Split Peas

I filled our sensory tub up with a half a bag of popcorn kernels that were in the cabinet for years.  (I bought a fresh bag and couldn’t just through these out.)  I also added a bag of split peas and a bunch of fall fabric leaves and flowers.  I found a bunch of them while I was going through our fall decorations.  I didn’t have a use for them anymore so I thought they would be great for a fall themed sensory tub.

Juliette was able to test it out while Emily was taking a nap.  She loved using the scoop I found at my Grandmother’s house while helping her clean out some cabinets.

   She also liked just feeling the leaves and throwing them around the tub and then the floor.  There was quite a mess once she was finished, but she had a great time doing it!

Digging for…

…PEANUTS!!

This summer we planted peanut seeds to grow our own peanut plants and have been waiting to see if we actually grew any peanuts.  We were motivated to dig for them after Emily spotted a squirrel sitting on the planter digging through it.

I set the planter on the floor for the girls and gave them some spoons to go digging for peanuts.

We grew about 7 which we were so excited for.

    Emily thought it was so cool that they were all under the soil.  I can’t wait to try this again next year.

stART ~ Five Silly Turkeys

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 Five Silly Turkeys, by Salina Yoon.  Emily enjoyed this cute counting  book last year.  This year both girls were able to have fun listening to it.  Juliette liked turning the pages with the fabric tail feathers!  

After reading the book Emily made a paper bag Turkey. 

First Emily stuffed a paper lunch bag with newspaper.

Then she helped me tape the top closed.  We rolled it over so that it would be flat.   Emily painted the whole bag with brown paint.

While we waited for the paint to dry Emily glued the beak, snood, and eyes on the turkey body.

Once everything was dry Emily glued on the body and tail feathers (I cut them out of construction paper)  There were about 16 feathers for her to glue on, but she only wanted to do 3, one of each color so that we could see them easily.

 

Emily’s Paper Bag Turkey

stART ~ We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt

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This week the leaves from the huge maple tree in our backyard have blanketed our backyard.  Emily and Juliette had a great time playing outside in the leaves, looking for leaves of all different colors and sizes.  I have to admit even I was enjoying hunting for the perfect leaf!  So, this week we really enjoyed reading We're Going On A Leaf Hunt, by Steve Metzger.  This story is patterned after the song We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which Emily knows and enjoys so it was fun to see how this book reminded her of it.  The children in the story go hunting for all different types of leaves until they meet a skunk and have to go all the way back home.  This is a fun book to read and both Emily and Juliette enjoyed listening to it!

To go along with this book we went on our own leaf hunt.  Emily, Juliette and I all went in the yard looking for leaves.  After that we brought them in to make a leaf collage.

Emily started by painting the background of her paper with paint.

  Then she glued her favorite leaves on to make a collage.

Emily’s finished leaf collage

stART ~ Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin

 

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This week we read Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin, by Mary Serfozo.  This is a cute book about a little tiger named Peter who searches for the perfect pumpkin.  After he finds it we are left to wonder what he wanted it for, until the very end when we see the…I’ll let you find out for yourself, I wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise :0)

For our project we made our own little plush plumply, dumply pumpkin out of a pair of stockings.

All you need is a pair of stockings, fiberfill, 2 rubber bands and some paint.

   

First I cut the legs off of a pair of stocking.  Then I cut each leg in half so that I had 4 pieces.  I laid the pieces  crossing over each other in the center to form a star.  Then I stapled the center to hold them together.   

Now, Emily filled each tube with some fiberfill until it looked like… …this. I helped her gather the sections at the top to form a pumpkin shape.  Then I tied it together with a rubber band.

I braided the top piece to form the stem and secured that with another rubber band.

Emily went to work painting her pumpkin orange and the stem green.

Emily’s Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin