G is for Goat (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about goats today. They enjoyed painting as always and pretending to be mountain goats on the couch. We got our recourses for today from the Letter G is for Goat, Garden, Globe Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

Goat Science

Goat Writing

The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter G. My 3 year old had a capital G and lowercase g with tracing arrows, along with a goat to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing G’s and g’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter G is for Goat, Garden, Globe Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

g is for Goat Craft

  • I printed this g is for goat Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the lower case “g” for them to paint brown. After that dried they glued it to a piece of green construction paper. Then I cut out the horns, face, and beard for them to glue on.

One Goat

  • The girls each had a similar number 1 paper for counting goats. My 3 year old had the number 1 with tracing arrows, along with a helpful poem, and a goat to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added more tracing 1’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter G is for Goat, Garden, Globe Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

My “g” Book

Goat Worksheets

Goat over the Bridge

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Thanksgiving Turkey (fruit & vegetable) Platters -25

Storm loves fresh fruits and vegetables, so we made turkey platters to snack on while Thanksgiving dinner was being made. We also made a meat, cheese, and cracker platter as well.

Fruit Platter

We placed half of a pear on the bottom of the platter for the turkey body, with sliced olive eyes and cut carrot feet and beak. Then we placed strawberries, orange slices, and grapes around the platter for the turkey feathers.

We also used waffle cones for the kids to make their own cornucopia’s with their fruit.

Vegetable Platter

I cut the top off of a red pepper and cleaned our the insides to make a bowl for the turkey body. We placed it near the bottom of the platter. I used the end that I cut off for the turkey’s head, with sliced olive eyes and cut pepper feet and beak. I also cut yellow peppers into strips coming out the of top of the turkeys head like feathers. Then we placed cucumber slices, baby carrots, celery sticks, and more pepper strips around the platter for the turkey feathers.

To make the ranch, I used 16 ounces of sour cream and a ranch dry mix packet.

Meat & Cheese Platter

We placed a cheese ball on the bottom of the platter for the turkey body, with sliced olive eyes and cut carrot feet and beak. Then we placed cheeses, crackers, meat slices, and honey candied almonds around the platter for the turkey feathers.

Gingerbread Castle

I found an Oreo cookie castle kit for our Thanksgiving Gingerbread House Tradition. We added all kind of Oreo’s and Christmas candies including Mini Oreo’s, Christmas lights sprinkles, spice drops, snowflake sprinkles, pull and peel Twizzlers, and mini candy canes.

We used the icing that came with the kit as the glue for the cookie pieces, but I made my buttercream icing for the decorations on the bottom. Then she used my piping bags to put icing wherever she wanted it.

Buttercream Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup Crisco
  • 4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon milk (if thick)

Buttercream Directions:

  1. Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
  2. Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
  3. Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.
  4. Color with yellow food coloring.

Here are some of our other Thanksgiving Gingerbread posts:

Gingerbread House -23
Thanksgiving Baking -20
Kids Thanksgiving Treats -19

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F is for Firefighter (preschool)

The girls loved learning about firefighters today. They loved making fire dough and a firetruck snack. We got our recourses for today from the Letter F is for Fish, Firefighter, Flower Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Firefighter Science

Firefighter Writing

  • The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter F. My 3 year old had a capital F and lowercase f with tracing arrows, along with a firefighter to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing F’s and f’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter F is for Fish, Firefighter, Flower Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Two Firefighters

Firetruck Snack

  • We put red icing on the Graham Cracker. Then we used a small square of the graham cracker for the driver’s window and the Mini Oreo‘s for the wheels. We made a ladder out of the pretzel sticks.

Tissue Paper Flame

  • I printed and cut out the flame onto cardstock. Then we cut our red and yellow tissue paper into 1 inch squares. We wrapped the tissue papers around the eraser on our pencils and then dipped them into glue. Then we press the tissues onto the flame.

Stop, Drop, and Roll

My “f” Book

Put out the Fire

Homemade Fire Dough (Cloud Dough)

  • To make our fire dough we mixed 1 cup of conditioner, 2 cups of cornstarch, and 1/4 cup of cold water, then we added red and yellow food coloring to make it orange.

Shape Flames

  • I printed out the Fire Shapes and laminated them for the girls to make shapes with their fire dough.

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F is for Flower (preschool)

The girls loved learning about flowers today. They enjoyed making flowers with playdough, candy, and toys. We got our recourses for today from the Letter F is for Fish, Firefighter, Flower Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Flower Science

Flower Writing

  • The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter F. My 3 year old had a capital F and lowercase f with tracing arrows, along with a flower to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing F’s and f’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter F is for Fish, Firefighter, Flower Preschool Pack Digital Download.

f is for Flower Craft

  • I printed this f is for Flower Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the lower case “f” for them to paint green along with the leaves. They got to paint the flower whatever color they chose. After that dried they glued it to a piece of black construction paper. Then they glued the leaves and flower onto the “f”.

Three Flowers

Flower Garden Toys

  • They seem to really enjoy these Flower Garden Building Toys. You can mix and match the stem, leaves, petals, and the middle of the flowers. Today, they made a rainbow flower garden.

Candy Flowers

  • She often ask for a “treat”, so today we made flowers from our M&M’s.

Flower Pot Color Matching

  • I printed out the Flower Pot Color Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. She reviewed each color as she matched up the colored flowers to the colored flower pots.

Playdough Flowers

Flower Worksheets

More Flower Videos

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Preschool Pocahontas Photoshoot

My granddaughter is 3 years old and loves to dress up as a princess. This month we chose Pocahontas from Disney’s  Pocahontas because I think of corn and sunflowers in the fall. Also, her dress is brown like the November fall leaves.

Princess Pocahontas is an adventurous, bold, respectful, generous, daring 18 year old girl from Powhatan tribe’s territory in Tsenacommacah, Virginia. Her sidekick is Meeko the raccoon.

Pocahontas quote: “My dream is pointing me down another path.”

Jeremiah 31:3 states, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

We went to a local park that had a lake for this photoshoot. She wore her Pocahontas dress and her brown strapy sandals with the “Pocahontas” hair bow from this Disney Princess Bow Pack. She also held a bouquet of sunflowers.

Here are some more of my toddler and preschool photoshoots:

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F is for Fish (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about fish today. They enjoyed painting and making patterns with Goldfish. We got our recourses for today from the Letter F is for Fish, Firefighter, Flower Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Fish Science

Fish Writing

  • The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter F. My 3 year old had a capital F and lowercase f with tracing arrows, along with a fish to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing F’s and f’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter F is for Fish, Firefighter, Flower Preschool Pack Digital Download.

F is for Fish Craft

I printed this F is for Fish Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capital “F” for them to paint orange. After that dried they glued it to a piece of blue construction paper. Then I cut out the head, tail, and fin for them to glue on.

Fishbowl Shapes

I printed out the  Fishbowl Shape game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the fish with the appropriate fishbowls.

Goldfish Patterns

One Fish

AlphaTales

Fish Worksheets

More Fish Videos

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E is for Egg (preschool)

The girls had fun exploring with eggs today. They got to paint, collect eggs, and dissect an egg. We got our recourses for today from the Letter E is for Elephant, Egg, Elk Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Egg Science

Dissecting Eggs

  • They each held an egg to feel the shell texture.
  • Then they cracked them open onto a plate.
  • They observed the egg white and yoke, and then had fun touching it.

Life Cycles

Egg Writing

The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter E. My 3 year old had a capital E and lowercase e with tracing arrows, along with eggs to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing E’s and e’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the  Letter E is for Elephant, Egg, Elk Preschool Pack Digital Download.

e is for Egg Craft

I printed this e is for Egg Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the lower case “e” for them to paint yellow (for the egg yoke). After that dried they glued it to a piece of blue construction paper. Then I cut out the egg shell for them to glue on.

I spy the letter E

Egg Names

The girls use the Egg Names paper to practice making their names.

Frying Egg Shapes

I printed out the Frying Pan Egg Shape game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the egg yokes to the frying egg whites.

My “e” Book

I read the My “a” Book by Jane Belk Moncure to the girls too. An astronaut helps Little a in the book.

Egg Colors

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E is for Elk (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about elks and other types of deer today. They had fun making elk hats. We got our recourses for today from the Letter E is for Elephant, Egg, Elk Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Elk Science

Elk Writing

The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter E. My 3 year old had a capital E and lowercase e with tracing arrows, along with an elk to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing E’s and e’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter E is for Elephant, Egg, Elk Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Elk Color Matching

I printed out the  Elk Color Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. She reviewed each color as she matched up the colored flower with the elk with the matching colored flower in his mouth.

Playdough Trees

I printed out and laminated  the Forest Play Dough Mats. She rolled out green Play Doh  and used a triangle  cookie cutters to place the appropriate amount of trees in each forest. They also tried making tall 3D trees.

Elk Tracks

  • I printed out the Elk Tracks Pages for her to follow the elk tracks to the forest.

Elk Hat

  • First the girls cut out 2 large brown circles from construction paper. Then I traced their hands on yellow construction paper and cut them out. We glued 2 brown circle slightly above the other for the head, and then glued the yellow hands in the back for the antlers. Next I cut out 2 long brown strips and stapled them to the elk’s head to make a headband. They each drew a face on their elk’s head.
  • Or you can print out this Elk Headband. Color it and print it out to make a headband.

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E is for Elephant (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about elephants today. They had fun painting and making an elephant with a party blower nose. We got our recourses for today from the Letter E is for Elephant, Egg, Elk Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Elephant Science

AlphaTales

We read the A book in our AlphaTales collection. The girls really enjoy these funny phonetic stories.

Elephant Writing

The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter E. My 3 year old had a capital E and lowercase e with tracing arrows, along with an elephant to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing E’s and e’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter E is for Elephant, Egg, Elk Preschool Pack Digital Download.

E is for Elephant Craft

I printed this E is for Elephant craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capital “E” for them to paint gray. They also painted the ear and trunk. After that dried they glued it to a piece of red construction paper. Then I cut out the tail and eyes for them to glue on.

Elephant Color Match

  • I printed out the Elephant Color Match, and cut them out. I laminated them and the cut them again. Then we turned them all upside down and took turns flipping to try to find matching colors. They are getting good at playing this game now.

Elephant Stomp

  • We talked about how elephants walk on their tip toes, and the babies use their trunks to hold the mom’s tails. We looked at the Elephant Stomp poster, as they walked like elephants.

Counting Peanuts

  • I printed out the Counting Peanuts game and then cut the pieces and laminated the pieces. She counted the peanuts as she fed them to the elephant.

Elephant Party Blower Trunk

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D is for Dog (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about dogs today. They really liked learning about different dog breeds, hide and seek, and painting. We got our recourses for today from the D is for Donkey, Doctor, Dog Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

Dog Science

Dog Writing

  • The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter D. My 3 year old had a capital D and lowercase d with tracing arrows, along with a dog to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing D’s and d’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the D is for Donkey, Doctor, Dog Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

D is for Dog Craft

  • I printed this D is for Dog Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capital “D” for them to paint brown. After that dried they glued it to a piece of pink construction paper. Then I cut out the face parts and the tail for them to glue on.

Dog Worksheets

Dog Shapes

  • I printed out the  Dalmatian Spot Shape game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the shape spots to the appropriate Dalmatian.

Dog Counting

  • I printed out the  Dog Bone Counting game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. She counted how many bones on each piece and then matched it up to the matching number.

Active Dog Play

AlphaTales

  • We read the D book in our AlphaTales collection. The girls really enjoy these funny phonetic stories. This one is about a detective dog that loves donoughts.

Dog Emotions

Dogs Colorful Day Match

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