Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!

 And boy did it snow here!  After hurricane Sandy we were hit with a nor'easter which left about 7.5 inches of snow.  It also knocked out our power for 4 days, but that was nothing compared to what some other families were dealing with. 

So we made the best of it and enjoyed the perfect Snowman making snow that was covering our yard!

 Emily and Juliette's Snow Frog!!!

stART ~ The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

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 Jacket I Wear in the Snow, by Shirley Neitzel.  This is a cute cumulative rhyming story about a little boy who first puts on all of his snow gear and then has to take it off.  Emily especially likes the rebus pictures that help her help me tell the story.  This books was perfect since we spent the day snowed in after we got another 8 inches of snow over night.  Instead of putting on all of our snow gear to go outside where it was way to cold for us, we made some snowmen out of shaving cream and glue.

First I mixed an equal amount of shaving cream and white glue together to form the base of the snowman.  This is the same puffy paint mixture that we used for our Puffy Paint Ghosts.

Emily used her fingers to paint a snowman shape with the puffy paint.  After she had the outline she went back and added more until it was covered in white.

I gave Emily all different supplies to decorate her snowman with.  Foam hats and noses, beans, buttons, fabric and wiggly eyes.

 

Can you tell that she was enjoying this project?!?!

 

I love the little black beans that she added for the mouth.

Emily’s finished Snowmen.  The big one with the blue buttons is Daddy and the little one with the pink and green buttons is Emily.

There was plenty of Puffy Paint left and it looked like so much fun that I made my own Snowmen!  First I made the big one which Emily decided was me so then I had to make a little one for Juliette who was actually taking a nap during this project.

TOTSchool

 

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 36 months old

Last week we had another huge snowstorm.  I brought in some snow for the girls to play with.  Both Emily and Juliette had a great time in the snow.  This was the first time that Juliette got to touch and experience snow.  She was so cute as she explored it!!

Emily enjoyed scooping the snow into containers and also poking pipe cleaners into the snow.  Juliette liked touching the snow and splashing around in the melted snow water!

Daddy took Emily outside to play in the snow and ….

…build a Daddy and Emily Snowman!

My favorite picture!!!! 

We made Yummy Yums (this is seriously what my friend Sarah calls these yummy creations!)

My friend Sarah came up with this cute idea to make a lion for the letter L.  Emily was happy to cut the grass into fringe!!

This bingo dauber activity from Confessions of a Homeschooler was a lot of fun.  I am looking forward to doing more of these with Emily, she seemed to enjoy them a lot.

They also put flat colored beads to cover the white circles in this activity from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

   Juliette investigating Braeden’s toes.  While the girls were at work on their projects. The girls made corn muffins.  Great practice scooping, pouring and mixing. Spooning the mixture into the muffin tin.

We made mountains for the letter M.

Practiced patterns with M&M’s, which all the girls were happy to eat when we were finished!

Fine motor practice with water droppers and suction cups.  Emily loves anything that means she is able to play with water!!

Emily had fun painting and listening to music for our stART project this week.

We were able to get together for art group and we worked on our color wheels and clean finger painting with orange.

Emily’s cousin came over and they had fun playing with play dough.

Our favorite books from this week:

• Danny The Dragon Meets Jimmy ~ Tina Turbin

• Fisher Price Little People Welcome To Our Town Big Flap Book ~ Ellen Weiss

• Fisher Price Cars, Trucks, Planes, and Trains Lift the Flap Book ~ Nancy Rindone 

• Glad Monster, Sad Monster ~ Ed Emberley

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TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 35 months old.

These are the past two weeks in TOTSchool and I am now finally caught up!! It definitely feels good to be back on track. I am looking forward to some great activities in the next few weeks. Emily has really started to show and interest in letters and writing them so that is what we will start to focus on.

We worked on the letter Ii with our friends at Sarah’s house. She has some good pictures of the finished products. We made igloos for our Alphabet book.

We made handprint/fingerprint penguins. I loved the way these came out. They look like they are marching across the paper. We used the side of their fist for the body and then their fingerprints to make the white belly, beak and feet.

Gluing mini marshmallows on this snowman was a great fine motor skill practice. They also enjoyed eating the marshmallows :0)

Emily had fun stamping with this penguin rubber stamp that she received for Christmas. I couldn’t believe what a great job she did lining them up. I left her to do what she wanted with it and really expected to see a bunch on top of each other. When she finished she called me over and asked me to write their names under them. Many of them were named Grandma and Grandpa I thought that was pretty funny.

We started a color wheel project in our Art Group. For the first week we did red. We will collage the primary colors and then work on the secondary colors.

We made blob paintings after reading It Looked Like Spilt Milk. Emily decided hers looked like a butterfly and it really did!

This, handwriting ring from Confessions of a Homeschooler was my favorite printout of the week!! I can’t wait to make some more. Emily loved working on it and it stayed out all week. She did an amazing job tracing the lines and different patterns too. I think she is definitely ready to work on letters now.

Emily decorated a teddy bear cupcake and Juliette really wanted to taste some, but she still has a while to go before we introduce her to these sweets!!

When we were at my mom’s house Emily wanted to play with these Make a Picture Tiles. This was one of my favorite games/toys when I was little. You get to make all different pictures with the different tile cards. My mom had this from when she used to sell discovery toys.

For our stART project we made paper plate penguins after reading If I Were a Penguin.

During our Art Group we worked on our Color Wheel Project. This week we focused on Yellow. Here Emily is painting with spaghetti

Some of our favorite books from this week:

• It Looked Like Spilt Milk ~ Charles Shaw
• If You Give a Pig a Pancake ~ Laura Numeroff
• If You Were a Penguin ~ Wendell and Florence Minor
• Good Night Moon ~ Margret Wise Brown

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Playing with snow…

…indoors!!!

We had about 2 feet of snow this weekend and Emily really wanted to play in it but I couldn’t take Juliette out in it.  So I brought it in to Emily!!

She had fun making her snowman.  I gave her wiggly eyes, pom poms and a foam hat and carrot nose to play with. 

Friday Felt Fun!!

Build A Snowman Felt Board

I made Emily a new felt board activity (minus the felt board, I’m still working on that part.  However, my new trays worked out really well for this).  Emily had a great time dressing up  her new snowman.   As she was working on it I thought it would be fun to add some different color accessories.  Next time she will get to choose which color jacket, mittens and scarf he will wear!