Muffin Tin Monday ~ Dinosaurs

Today for Muffin Tin Monday we decided to do our own theme since we have been having so much fun with Dinosaurs, and my fridge is basically empty, I was amazing I was even able to find this to serve in it!

 

In the two pink muffin cups are Trail Mix (raisins, multi-grain cheerios and mini M&M’s) and Applesauce.

Then she has her Dinosaur Shaped Turkey and American Cheese Sandwich.

She loved her lunch…she decided I needed to tell her what part of her dinosaur to eat, she started with the head then the tail, feet and finally the tummy.

Juliette had applesauce, cheese and saltine goldfish in a muffin cup and she loved it!

Having Fun Learning

Our Week Having Fun Learning Together!!!

Emily is 43 months old and Juliette is 14 months old

We did a lot of different activities and had a little bit of a Dinosaur theme going this week.  I had fun finding Dinosaur books from the library and printing out different activities for Emily to do.  Since there are SOOO may things you can do with them and Emily seems to be enjoying it, I think we will be continuing with this little them again next week too!  We also went to Music at Sarah’s house and had Art Group at our House.

This week we both Emily and Juliette enjoyed doing lots of different art projects.  I am so excited that Juliette is able to participate and seems to really enjoy many of the things that I do with Emily now.

  Emily and I played a Dinosaur Themed Roll and Color Game.  I love doing these with her since it is a great counting and number recognition activity.  Plus I absolutely love to color. 

During art group we made this apple tree painting that I saw on Teach Preschool.

Emily practiced cutting by helping me clip coupons.

Our Do-A-Dot markers were a big hit this week!  Emily used both the regular and mini ones to stamp the letter Dd and a Dinosaur.  We also used them to color a paper plate for a project.

For our stART project Emily made a paper plate dinosaur…check out how she dressed it up!

I found a great Dinosaur Shape Count and color page for her to work on.  She colored it all by herself and then I helped her write the numbers after she counted the shapes.

Tiny Tot School  

   Juliette loved filling an empty puffs container with our counting bears.  She would fill it up and then dump it out and start all over again.

We went to play with our friends and Braeden gave Juliette a ride in the laundry hamper.  They both thought this was the greatest game ever.  I love watching Juliette interact with her friends more and more.

Juliette loves to color.  Whenever Emily has her markers out Juliette points to them and says “that, that” until I give her one.  All I have to say is thank goodness they are washable!!!

  Last week we did a contact paper collage, this week we did a sticker collage and she enjoyed it just as much!  Juliette peeled many of the stickers off and stuck them onto the paper all by herself.  Then when she needed help she would hand it to me.

Of course, as soon as Juliette saw Emily using the do-a-dot markers she needed to try them too!

Juliette received this CD player toy for her Birthday and really liked putting the  CD’s into the slot, just like her piggy bank.

  We have had our easel out since we did the water painting on the chalk board side last week.  This time I pulled the paper over it and set out the crayons for the girls to draw with.  Every day they filled the paper with all different kinds of drawings and scribbles.  Juliette enjoyed drawing so much that she didn’t even put any crayons in her mouth…well at least for a really long time :)

Our favorite books from this week:

• Dinorella ~ Pamela Duncan Edwards
• How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight ~ Jane Yolen
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See ~ Bill Martin, Jr.
• 9 Fruits Alive ~ Mindy Macdonald

 

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stART ~ Dinorella

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 so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.

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 Dinorella, by Pamela Duncan Edwards.  This is Prehistoric Dinosaur version of the fairy tale Cinderella.  It is a great example of alliteration and would compliment any dinosaur or D themed study!  Emily enjoyed this book and was very excited to make her own Dinorella after we finished reading this story.

I thought that it would be fun to make a paper plate dinosaur and after reading this book I knew exactly what we were going to do…make some adorable Dinorella Paper Plate Dinosaurs all dressed up and ready for the Dance.

First Emily used a Do-a-Dot paint marker to dot a paper plate pink.

Next, she cut all the way around the inside of a paper plate.

From the edge piece she cut 4 leg pieces.  Then she cut the leftover piece in half.  To use one half for the head and the other for the tail.  I shaped both of these pieces to better resemble a head and tail for her.

Emily glued the pieces together to look like a dinosaur.

Now for the really fun part…dressing up Dinorella!!!

Emily added white pieces of white tulle for the dress and black foam for the top.  Then she glued on Sequins & Spangles for the diamond necklace and earrings.  She used yellow dot stickers for the hair and a wiggly eye.

Emily’s Dinorella all dressed up and ready for the Dance