Open Ended Art ~ Yellow Coloring

This weeks theme for open ended art at Teaching My Little Bookworm is yellow coloring. I kind of just set out the crayons and hoped that the kiddos would color with yellow. To my joy, they did!

The girls both really liked trying out these new color wheels that we got for FREE at a local grocery store.


Aidman made this awesome jellyfish and snail.

Open Ended Art

Teaching my Little Bookworms theme for this weeks open ended art was mixed mediums. I decided to use this theme as another little catch up session (don't know why I haven't been able to stay on top of doing these, but I WILL get better!).

We painted/printed using corn cobs. After picking 20 ears of corn at Gran Gran's, I've been using it like crazy and knew these would make a fun painting tool once the corn was off. The kiddos thought it was so funny to paint with these.

They painted with red and yellow paint which mixed together to make orange. Painting with corn cobs is messy work!


After the painting dried we decided to make it into a collage. I gave them yellow crayons, markers, bingo dobbers, rollits, and anything yellow from my craft closet that could be glued on.

They had alot of fun doing this and because I wasn't involved I got the kitchen cleaned. I love sticking close by when they are doing art work because I LOVE some of the conversations they have during it. Having Laneybug here really added to that conversation.


And this is the beautiful finished product! Hopely next time we won't have to be playing catch up.

Yeast Experiment

Today we decided to do a Yeast experiment for the letter Yy. We made two batches of rolls, one had yeast and the other did not, other than that they were exactly the same. When Aidman added yeast to the clear bowl, he bent down and said "Yum, that smells like bread".

From the start you could tell there was a difference. The one without was very sticky.

This is after the first rising. The one on the left has yeast.

Lyssy and Ab thought it was so much fun to play in the flour.

Ab was not interested in the rolls because she just wanted to play with flour, so Lyssy and I did all the work. Lyssy kneaded it.

Lyssy cut the rolls into circles.

Here are the rolls getting ready to rise again. The yeast rolls are on the left.

Here they are after the rising.

Now the yeast rolls are on the right. The non yeast rolls spent an extra 5 minutes in the oven and are dark on the bottom and very light on the top.

Visibly, yeast made a BIG difference. Tastefully, yeast made an even BIGGER difference. I wish I would have gotten a picture of Aidman's face when he bit into the non yeast rolls, he was disgusted.

We all LOVED this experiment!! Cooking is one thing, but figuring out why you should add a certain ingredient adds so much to the already awesome cooking experience.

BTW, the yeast rolls were wonderful! Here is the recipe.

2 1/2 cups bread flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup sugar

2 tablespoons shortening

1 pack active dry yeast

1 cup water

1 egg

Dissolve yeast in water. Mix dry ingredients, crumble shortening into dry mix. Add egg and yeast water, mix. Place a damp cloth over and rise for 45 minutes. Knead dough, flatten out and cut into circles. Lay on buttered pan touching, lay damp cloth over and rise for another 30- 45 minutes. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.

Yy Work

I got both of these ideas from Mozi Esme and my kiddos loved them so much that I just had to post about them.

I've actually seen this yo-yo painting on many blogs. I knew the very first time I saw it that I would use it during the letter Yy week.

It really was alot of fun.

The yo-yo's are made of knee highs and beans, that's it.

Today we stuck tooth picks into yams. My kids LOVED doing this and it's such a simple thing to do! It was GREAT for their fine motor skills.

Aidman named his yam several different names, but he's in bed now and I forget what they were, opps.

Yellow Yarn Yy and Unplugged

I have been wanting to do an Unplugged Project for awhile now. Today when I saw that the theme was yellow, I thought it was just perfect because we did several yellow things for the letter Yy today.

We cut yellow yarn. It was kinda hard with kiddie scissors, so mommy did most of the cutting.

Then we glued Yellow Yarn to a Yy.

YAY, a Yellow Yy!

For our Table Top Toys this week I put out water transfer. Because it is Yy week, I added yellow food coloring the the water.

The kiddos are really enjoying squeezing out the sponge.

Yy Week

I LOVE Monday mornings. Weird huh? I look forward to all the fun things we do on Mondays, letter introduction is ALOT of fun, showing the kiddos the new table tops toys for the week, and of course Muffin Tin Monday. To get ready for Monday mornings can be work, but I enjoy it.

Art:
-Glue Yellow Yarn to Yy
-Yo-yo painting

Science:
-Yeast- make 2 batches of rolls, 1 with yeast and 1 without, and see what happens

Math:
-Yams, (fine motor activity) stick toothpicks in
-Measure Yard with our footprints

Cooking:
-Yeast rolls
-Yogurt parfaits
-Yorkshire pudding

Movement/Outside:
-Yoga
-Yodel in the Yard

Social Studies:
-watch youtube of Yellowstone National Park and locate it on our map (Aidman is really into the map lately)

Table Top Toys:
-Yellow water transfer with sponge
-counting shells
-flower garden

Books: (going to the library tomorrow)
Yertle the Turtle

More Yy words: (not listed above)
Yell
Yes
Yawn
You
Yak
yuck
yardstick
Yankee
yippie
yank
yacht
year