Color Wheel Project ~ Green

This week we added Green to our color wheel!

First they colored with green crayons and markers and then they glued on lots of fun green collage materials. We had green pipe cleaners, craft foam, felt, ribbon, stickers, straws and pom poms.

Green Shiny Paint Shamrocks

 I originally saw the idea for the shiny paint made with corn syrup and food coloring on Through The Eyes of a Child and couldn’t wait to try it out.

 

I cut shamrock shapes out of tag board and mixed up some shiny paint in blue and yellow. I drizzled some yellow and green on each shamrock and gave each child got a popsicle stick to mix the colors together. It was fun to watch it turn green!

After they were finished they enjoyed using the paints on a plain piece of white paper. We will definitely be making these paints again!

stART ~ Warthogs Paint

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 Warthogs Paint A Messy Color Book, by Pamela Duncan Edwards. This is a really cute story about some very messy warthogs and the fun that they have with Red, Blue and Yellow paint one rainy day. I love the great color concepts that this book teaches and all the wonderful art projects that is lend itself too!

This week we decided to use some of the color mixing concepts that are talked about in this book to make a very special Cheesecake rainbow.

First we made the crust and added some Fruit Loops to the graham crackers for a rainbow colored crust and fun fruity flavor.

Emily helped scoop and pour all of the ingredients into the mixer.

While it was mixing Emily worked on pointing out some of her letters. She knew all of the letters in Kitchen Aid!

Once the batter was ready I divided it into three bowls and added Red, Blue and Yellow food coloring to them.

Emily helped mix the food coloring into the batter.

Next, we mixed the different colors together to make Orange, Green, and Purple. (I added a little bit of food coloring as needed to get a brighter color)

Emily really enjoyed all the mixing :0)

Now we are ready to make our rainbow!

Emily helped pour the Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple batter on top of the graham cracker crust.

After waiting a whole day to cut into the cake and see how it came out Emily and everyone else that was over for our Family Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner loved the results!!

Warthogs Paint inspired Rainbow Cheesecake!

If you would like to make your own check out the awesome cheesecake recipe we used. I made a different crust since my husband is allergic to tree nuts.

Graham Cracker and Fruit Loop Crust:

• 2 cups c graham cracker crumbs (I made mine in the food processor)
• 1/2 cup fruit loop crumbs
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/4 cup sugar

Mix all ingredients until well blended and press into a greased spring form pan or pie plate.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

To get into the St. Patrick’s Day Spirit Emily and I made some Irish Soda Bread.  Every year I have to make a few loaves since we devour it within the day and then I wonder why I only make it once a year for St. Patrick’s Day.  I guess if I made it every day it wouldn’t be so special!

Baking Irish Soda Bread with Emily

 

I mixed the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt into a bowl and then Emily scooped it into the bowl.

Next, she dumped in a cup of raisins.

Then, poured in 1 1/3 cups buttermilk (we used milk soured with 1 tablespoon of vinegar)

Emily mixed it together and then I helped her make sure it was all mixed :0)

I gave Emily a piece to kneed.  She was so excited to have her own piece to work with.   I made a cross in the top of both loaves and put them in the oven to bake for 55 minutes (Emily’s mini loaf only took about 30 minutes to cook)

    

Emily enjoying her Irish Soda Bread

 

Irish Soda Bread Recipe

3 cup flour
3 Tbsp. sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup raisins
1 1/3 cup buttermilk ( I just add 1 Tbsp vinegar or lemon juice to milk)

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.  Stir in raisins and buttermilk.  Mix and knead.  Shape into a circle and with a knife make cross in the top.  Bake at 375 for 55 minutes. 

Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy DVD Review

 

I recently reviewed Tina Turbin’s Best Book Award 2009 Finalist, Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy and the Audio Book CD DREAMS that goes along with it.  Emily and I loved the book and were very excited to also receive the Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy DVD to watch together.  I loved that this DVD was not an animated version of the story,  but large full color images of the book told with sign interpretation.  Emily enjoyed watching as the story was read and signed to her.  I was able to explain to her what sign language was and why some people need to use it. 

I think that it is wonderful that this author is so supportive of literacy and education for the deaf and hearing impaired.  In fact Tina is donating half of the profits from the sale of this DVD to increase awareness and support of literacy and education for Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf and half the profits to other causes which support literacy and education for the welfare of all children.

This DVD will be available in April through the Danny the Dragon Website!

You can find out more about Danny The Dragon and Tina Turbin’s Causes by visiting these websites:

• Danny The Dragon Website – All things Danny the Dragon

• Gluten Free Help – Website created by Tina Turbin to provide information about topics relating to celiac disease.

• Tina Turbin – Information about the author.

**Thank you to Tina Turbin and her assistant Rosie Newman for providing me with a copy of this DVD in return for reviewing it. This review reflects my own personal opinion and experience with this product.

Creating Clovers

Since Emily’s Favorite Color is Green I was looking forward to all the green projects that we could create for St. Patrick’s Day.

Emily was so excited to be creating in GREEN!

Coffee Filter Clover

When I first saw the idea for these coffee filter clovers, on Under the Table & Dreaming I knew I wanted to try them. (Be sure to visit her blog, her finished project makes the most beautiful piece of art for your walls!)  We have done a few other coffee filter crafts and they are always a big hit! When they were finished they looked adorable and were so much fun to make.

Emily colored on some coffee filters with yellow and blue markers while Juliette practiced pulling up on the chair right next to her. (She can’t wait to join in the crafty fun!!)

Once she filled up the coffee filter with color I gave her a spray bottle and had her soak them with water. (The tray was a huge help in containing a potential for major mess!!) It was fun to watch the yellow and blue blend together to make GREEN!

When they were dry I folded them and then cut them into heart shapes. Emily glued them onto a piece of card stock in the shape of a clover and added a button in the middle.

Emily’s Coffee Filter Clover for St. Patrick’s Day!!

 

Here are some fun clover projects that we created last year:

Shamrock Sculpture

Roll and Paint Clover

Muffin Tin Monday

Today’s theme for Muffin Tin Monday is GREEN!!  Since Emily’s favorite color is green I couldn’t wait for her to see her breakfast, I knew she would be so excited.

Emily’s Green Muffin Tin Breakfast

Top Row: Green Milk, Green Grapes, Green Apple Jacks

Bottom Row: Green yogurt, Green Cream of Wheat, Green Eggs

A very happy little girl this morning!!

TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 36 months old and Juliette is 8 months old

This week we had a lot of fun doing our TOTSchool activities with our friends.  I was also really excited because Juliette has been joining in so much more.  She is so interested in everything we are doing so I am going to begin to add activities for her now too!!!

We made Yummy Yums again at Sarah’s house, they are amazing.  She posted the recipe on her blog so be sure to check it out!! (She also has many more wonderful pictures of some of the projects that we did together)

We worked on the letter N this week.  We decided to do N for names and I was so excited with how it came out.  I printed all of our friends names on a piece of paper and then cut them out.  The girls glued them onto the letter N.

Emily dot painted the letter N this is a great activity that was printed from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

  

While the girls were working Juliette found this little piano and provided us all with wonderful music.  It was so much fun to watch her banging on the keys.  She had so much fun with it.

 

Beading is a favorite activity with the girls.  This time I gave them lanyard to sting the beads onto.  Emily’s friend made hers into a bracelet that she wore for the rest of the week.  I actually won’t be surprised if she is wearing it to music tomorrow too!  They are so cute :0)

The babies hanging out while their sisters did their TOTSchool activities.  I love how Juliette is looking at Braeden!!

 

I had Emily cut out these Nn eggs for a project that we were going to work on at Sarah’s house.  This was printed from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

 

My birthday was on Wednesday and Sarah and Dawn had the girls bake me cupcakes to celebrate.  They even sang me “Happy Birthday” before we ate them.  I am so thankful for my amazing friends!!

The girls sorted the Nn eggs that Emily cut out earlier and glued them on to the nest and strips of construction paper at the bottom.

Sarah made lacing cards out of foam shapes and I attached lanyard to them so the girls could practice sewing.  The girls did really well with this, which was excellent fine motor skills practice.

Juliette explored some books while the girls were working.  She loves pulling them out of the bookshelf!!

For our stART project we read The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR and made a Torn Magazine Paper Strawberry.

Juliette had fun exploring some of the balls that were in her toy bucket.  I took them all out and showed her how they rolled.  She had fun hitting them together and dropping them onto the floor.

My girls!!  Emily loves her little sister and Juliette adores Emily.  It is so much fun to watch them play together.  I am so thankful for these two little blessings :0)

Our favorite books from this week:

• The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR ~ Don and Audrey Wood
• Bear’s New Friend ~ Karma Wilson
• When I Grow Up ~ Mercer Mayer
• DK Touch and Feel Baby Animals

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