stART~Ten Black Dots

 

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 we read Ten Black Dots, by Donald Crews.  Emily enjoyed reading this book at school and at home.  This is a great picture book that shows the many different things that different amounts of black dots can become.  The rhyming text is fun to read and the girls loved seeing all of the different things that the dots became on each page.

To go along with this book Emily picked a number of black dots and then imagined what they could be.  Then she glued the black dots on the paper and used them as part of her picture.

Emily decided that four black dots can be the wheels on a car.

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!

stART ~ I’m Gonna Like Me

Welcome back to stART! I hope that everyone had a great summer.  I know we are enjoying getting back in to our new routine.  I am so excited to begin stART again and to see all the great projects that everyone has been working on!  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 I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem, by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell.  This is a great book that  shows children that it is ok to make mistakes or be different than everyone else.  The rhythmic text paired with the amazing illustrations make this a fun book to read out loud.

I couldn’t be prouder of Emily because after we read the story I asked her why she liked herself and she told me…”Mommy, I like myself because God made me and he loves me.”  It is moments like this that make me feel so good!!

To go with this book we talked about all the things that Emily likes and what makes her special.  Then Emily made a “Me” collage.

First, Emily drew a picture of herself and then cut it out.

 

She glued her self portrait on a large piece of construction paper.  Then she cut out all different pictures from magazines that told about her and glued them around her on the paper.

Emily’s About Me Collage

stART ~ My New York

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 when we went to the library I was looking for books about New York City since we were going to visit my sister in law who happens to live in the city.  We have taken Emily before however she was younger, this time I was really excited because she is so much more aware.  I found the book My New York, by Kathy Jakobsen and Emily and I both really enjoyed it.  It is for older readers, however I took it out because the pictures are amazing.  I wanted to have something to show Emily before our trip (our 30 minute drive) and then to talk about and find things that we saw after and this book was perfect.  The story is actually really cute and I did read parts of it to Emily, but it would be amazing for a little bit older child.  It is about a little girl that lives in New York City telling her friend who lives in the country, but will be moving to the city all about where she lives and what there is to do.

So first we visited the city. Ever time we go into New York City I am amazed that we live so close yet it feels so far from all these amazing things!  We are literally a 30 minute drive, without traffic!  Although we are hoping to take the train in the future since Emily has been asking to take a train ride almost every day now for awhile.  Any way here are some of the fun things that we did and Emily’s stART project.

 

Emily loves horses (although she was scared of this one because it was not behind a fence) so Uncle Patrick picked her up so she could see it.

 

Daddy finishing the 5k (the whole reason we went into the city).  If you look carefully you can see me holding Juliette all the way to the left.

 

Daddy and Aunt Patty (she also ran) after the race with the girls.

After the race we visited the playground in near Battery Park.

Then we had the best surprise!!!

We took a boat ride!!! 

One of Uncle Patrick’s friends happened to be docked and when we walked by and said hello he offered to take us out for a ride :0)

 

We saw the Statue of Liberty from the boat.

Our Family in front of the Statue of Liberty

 

Our family with Aunt Patty and Uncle Patrick

And now for our stART project!!!

I printed out a picture of the Statue of Liberty and our family all together on the boat.  Then I gave Emily markers, paper, the pictures, glue and scissors so that she could make a picture of our trip.

She started by drawing the boat that we were on. 

Then she cut the picture of us out and glued us onto the boat.

Emily’s finished picture.  She added clouds the waves  and the bridge that we went under.