stART ~ The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

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 The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR, by Don and Audrey Wood.  This is one of the books that Emily requests each and every time that we go to the library.  It is a cute story about a little mouse that picks a Red Ripe Strawberry and then tries all different ways of keeping it from the Big Hungry Bear, that happens to LOVE freshly picked red ripe strawberries.  Since Emily enjoys this book so much and it is read very often  I thought it would be the perfect book for our stART project this week!

Emily collaged a lovely Red Ripe Strawberry out of magazine cutouts.  

First, Emily and I went through a couple of magazines to find red and green pictures.  I started doing the cutting for her, however when I had to stop in the middle of this to change Juliette, I looked up and saw that Emily had taken over.  This did not last for that long, but I was glad that she gave it a try. 

I drew a strawberry shape on a piece of red construction paper and then gave Emily, scissors, glue and the magazine cuttings to collage with.  I was excited to see her cutting the pieces down to fit on just so!!

   

Next, I drew the leaves of the strawberry on a piece of green construction paper and had her collage that too.

 

Finally, I cut out both pieces and Emily glued them together.

 

Emily’s Red Ripe Strawberry!!

Muffin Tin Monday...

...puts a smile on this little girls face!!!

This week there is no theme for Muffin Tin Monday so we just had a fun lunch of some of Emily's favorite foods in her muffin tin.

Emily's Muffin Tin Lunch

Top Row: Homemade Banana Bread, Peasnap Crisps, Strawberry Apple Sauce

Bottom Row: Alphabet Soup in Vegetable Broth, Mozzarella Cheese Circles, Peanut Butter and Jelly Roll-Ups

Strawberry Apple Sauce

Emily and I both LOVE the flavored applesauce in the cups, however I usually buy the giant size of applesauce since I usually give it to Emily as part of her dinner to sneak in a fruit serving and it is so much more economical. So when we went strawberry picking in June, I pureed some of the strawberries and froze them in ice cube trays. Once they were frozen I popped them out into a Ziploc bag. Now when we want strawberry flavored applesauce I just thaw one of the cubes in the microwave and mix it with a serving of applesauce. I plan on trying this with peach, blueberry and mango too!

Strawberries and Chopsticks

Emily has been enjoying all of the strawberries that we picked this weekend.
Her favorite way to eat them...

...is with her new pink chopsticks!

I picked these Animal Training Chopsticks
up at the gift shop of our local children's museum. I figured we could use them to work on some fine motor skills like picking up pom-poms. But once we tried them on food she now asks for them all the time. It is so cute to watch her eat with them. I think I am going to pick up a few more the next time we are at the museum!!

Muffin Tin Monday

This week there was no theme for Muffin Tin Monday. We went strawberry picking and brought home almost 6 pounds of strawberries yesterday, so of course they were incorporated into today's lunch!!

Emily's Muffin Tin Lunch
Top Row: Peanut butter and jelly roll up, Banana yogurt, Peanut butter and jelly roll up
Bottom Row: Strawberry and pineapple fruit kabobs, Peanut butter and jelly roll up, Strawberry and pineapple fruit kabobs

Emily's favorite were the fruit kabobs!

Strawberry Picking!!

We had a great time!!