I LOVE "borrowing" ideas!

We've decided to home school the kiddos for the rest of this preschool year. With me now working (part time) and so much going on, it is sometimes nice for me to not have to think on my own to come up with GREAT ideas for kids activities! I can not thank all you other mommy bloggers enough for all the inspiration I get from you!

This could NOT have been a better Florida week to learn about Winter! Today, in central FL, it is 35 degrees with snow flurries and sleet! The kiddos even got to play in the sleet for a few minutes! Some activities we did this week were...

Painting with "snow".

Actually, it was 1 part glue to 1 part shaving cream. We got this AWESOME idea from Funny Days with Maddy and Mommy.

The cool part is that is dried like soft puffy paint.

We made snowflakes by putting tape on paper and painting over it.

We got this idea from Frugal Family Fun Blog.

We took it one step further by adding glitter. Tomorrow, we will remove the tape to revel beautiful snowflakes!

We have talked ALOT this week about the different season so this idea from Ten Kids and a Dog was the perfect art tree for winter.


They LOVED shaking salt on the papers!

See the 2 dots of salt up top? We used a glue stick for those and it worked! I was experimenting to see if it would to see if I could use this idea in my baby art class (they are not quite ready for glue bottles).

Beautiful!

This week we also.... tweezed and counted "snowballs" (cotton balls),

had a snowball fight and threw "snowballs" (crumbled up paper) at Daddy,

cut snowflakes, made shape snowmen, played "Don't Break the Ice", melted ice, had a race dressing and undressing in winter clothes, ice skated on paper towels throughout the house,read LOTS of Winter books, played in fake Sno, and did Letter Ss activities.

Qq, Dd, Mm, and Ww Art

I promised that I would post some of our letter of the week work. Today we painted on the letter Qq using q-tips. The kiddos LOVE painting with q-tips and had a really good time. As you can see Prissy Lyssy chose to completely cover her Qq.

Here are some letters (that were STILL hanging on the fridge) from the last month.

For the Letter Dd, we used bingo dobbers to make Dots.

For the letter Mm, we made Mice by putting fingerprints on the letter and then drawing on ears and a tail with a pencil.


For the letter Ww, we glued on Wagon Wheel pasta.