Volcano Playdate

Today we invited over some friends for a volcano playdate.

We got this idea to make tin foil volcano's from Ramblings of a Crazy Woman. As you can see, I ran out of red food coloring, so we had yellow lava instead.

Since I had 16 kids here, I made 6 volcano's for them so they could be in small groups to do it. It would have been such a pain to make 6 different clay volcano's, so I'm so glad that I saw this tin foil one!

Then we used eye droppers to squirt "lava" onto a volcano.

This craft turned out really cute!

We read Our World Volcanoes by Valerie Bodden, it is a Great informational book made for younger kids. We also watched a youtube movie on an erupting volcano. It was a GREAT playdate!

Vv is for Volcano

Today we made a Volcano! We cut a cup in half and taped it on top of a ball of newspaper. Then we flattened out modeling clay around it to form a volcano. Ok, so it's not the best volcano shape in the world, but a 3 year old and a 4 year old made it, so we think it's FANTASTIC!!

After it had a nice shape we added two tablespoons of baking soda and 4 tablespoons of vinegar (you could add in some red food coloring, but we were out). Then watch it foam out.

Oh and we just happened to put ours on a plate and it worded out really well because it caught all the liquid.

It was really neat to see! Look how excited Lyssy was!

Velvet Vv

Boy was it difficult to come up with something for the letter Vv! Thankfully, I had an ugly velvet shirt that I would Never wear that was happy to be of assistance! We made Velvet Vv's!! I just cut the shirt into small pieces and let the kiddos glue them onto the letter Vv.

Lyssy was very proud of her work!

And Aidman used WAY too much glue!! But did a good job writing the letter Vv.

Vv

This week we are learning about the letter Vv. Here are our plans:

Art:

- Glue velvet on letter Vv

- Veggie prints

- Valentines cards

Science:

- Visit Veternarian

- Make a Volcano explosion

Math:

- Graph favorite veggies

- Count/sort vehicles

- Count candy conversation hearts (Valtentines)

Cooking:

- Vegetable Soup

Movement/Outside:

- Play volleyball

- Vacation!! We rode on a plane to TN!!