Five Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sitting on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs, Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four speckled frogs,
Ribbit Ribbit!

Keep counting down until there are no more speckled frogs.

We sing a lot around here and lately Little Man wants to hear this one. So I decided to make him a craft for it. I traced five frogs onto a piece of paper and let Little Man color it.

While he was doing that I found a piece of light blue construction paper and cut part of the top off, this is for the frogs to sit in at the bottom to make it look like they "jumped" into the water, so you want to make it like a little pocket.. You glue the very bottom and the edges on to the bottom of the blue construction paper. and make sure your frogs will fit into it. (Ours didn't fit so we made two and put them together)

Then you cut a piece of brown paper to go across the middle of the blue page. We didn't have brown so we just colored brown on white paper. Then you glue it just like you did the blue at the bottom, Edges and very bottom. Once you are done you can sit your frogs in and sing away!!

We drew "bugs" for our frogs to eat (everyone thought they were birds though lol!)

This only one page, there are two other frogs on the page next to it.

BUTTERFLY!!!!

We've been watching a lot of Pocoyo around here lately. Our favorite one is when he trys to catch a butterfly but he keeps screaming BUTTERFLY!! and scaring it away! Everyone keeps telling Pocoyo to shhh! But he still screams butterfly!

Little Man likes to yell butterfly now too (but he says "fly fly!"), so I thought that he would like to make a butterfly.

I drew two wings and a body on construction paper. I let Little Man pick the color for the wings, he chose red. I was going to make the body brown but couldn't find any paper so we did it orange.

After I drew the shapes of it I let Little Man color away!

He wanted to color more on the paper that didn't have the butterfly on it but it's ok.

After he was done coloring I cut out the shapes and glued them together and we had a beautiful butterfly for Little Mans wall!

The Foot Book

Today we read The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss and Little Man really liked it. We read it together and then he "read" it a couple times by himself.

So I decided to try to get Little Man's footprints on paper and write some of the words from the book on it.

Little Man was apprehensive about sticking his feet in paint!! We stripped him down to his skivvy's!

He was watching as Daddy poured paint into a box.

We had to do it about 3 times before we were satisfied with the first footprint, we learned that we had to get some of the excess paint off before we put it on the paper. So we had him step onto a dry part of the box first.

We did his feet two different colors.

Once the paint was dry I wrote "Left foot. Right foot. Feet. Feet. Feet. Oh, the feet you meet!" My handwriting isn't that great but I'm still happy with how it turned out!

I forgot to take a picture of it before I put it up on his wall so I just snapped one really quick while Little Man was asleep!

CD Case Wipe Board

This is something fun that little kids LOVE!! All you need is an empty CD case and some paper and markers!

You start by taking out the part that holds the CD. You might want to line the paper up inside so you know how big of a piece to cut out. You will also need a piece for the front of the case.

Once you have your paper figured out you can decorate it anyway you want, or you can leave it blank for them to write all over. I used Sharpie Pens to decorate the inside of the case, they are my favorite.

Little Man colored while I made this for him

I started by doing everything in pencil then went over it in marker (in case I messed up). I put 2 shapes, the alphabet, his name, lines for him to write, and 3 numbers. Once you are done put the pages in the front and back of the CD case

I taped the CD case closed so Little Man wouldn't open it and tear the pages out, he's a little rough sometimes :(   You will need a dry-erase marker to write on the outside so you can wipe it off. I gave Little Man one of his old baby washcloths to wipe off the marker.

 Little Man just scribbles over the whole thing!

But his favorite part is wiping it all off and doing it again!

Number Sticker Painting

This is something that I used to do in school when I was little and I wanted to try it again with Little Man. I'm gonna start working on his numbers with him so I thought it was the perfect opportunity.

You place number stickers on a white sheet of paper. Preferably stickers that have the inside holes in them (mine didn't but all I had to do was fill in the circles so he could recognize the numbers).

Then let your little one paint away on it! The more of the page they cover the better! I had to keep telling Little Man where he needed a little more paint so his numbers were colored completley.

Little Man's favorite color is "all dem". He loves to mix all of his colors together, almost everything he paints is the same mixed color!

Painting away

 Almost done!

And then he was done.

Be sure to let the paint dry before you peel off the stickers or some of the paint will smudge or get stuck to the stickers.

Little Man really enjoyed watching me pull the stickers off, I got "ooohs" and "ahhhs" the whole time!

Driveway Paint Fun

We decided to make some more of the paint today using our old paint recipe. Even Prince Charming joined in on the fun today.

Little Man Painted a stick!

Prince Charmings artwork!

This is from where we dumped the paint out at the end! Little Man had fun doing this but quickly became distracted by hitting thing with sticks!!

Sewing Card

I love sewing cards. I just think that they are fun and cute for kids. So I decided to try and make my own for Little Man.

But first look at how Little Man was sleeping last night!!!

But anyways, I just colored a picture out of his coloring book. He's into boats right now so I picked a boat and glued it onto some cardboard. Then I cut around some of the cardboard so it wouldn't be too hard for his little hands to hold.

Then I took a hole puncher and punched several holes around the picture. Once that is done all you have to do is make your "needle" and yarn.

You need to measure your yarn to make sure it will go all the way around your card. I doubled mine, and tied a knot at the end. For the "needle" I used a pipe cleaner. I just cut a piece off and folded it around the loopy part of the yarn. Once this is done you need to test it out to make sure the knot at the end isn't too small. I had to tie mine three times to get it right.

Mine looks a little rough, my scissors weren't very good for the cardboard. But Little Man seems to like it and that's all that matters!! Even the older kids want me to make some for them.

Sorry I didn't take any pictures while making it, we were playing outside at the time!

BIRTHDAY!!!

Little Man's 2nd Birthday was on the 18th and we had his party on the 19th. I've been so focused on that I haven't been doing anything else! He had a Thomas Birthday party! Here are some pictures!

Me and Little Man on his Birthday



He got to go to McDonalds and run around in the Play Place

Opening some presents

His Thomas Birthday Cake!!

And of course the candy from the PINATA!!

Pipe Cleaner "Sorting"

Little Man loves to put things in containers, take them out and put them all in again (like most toddlers!). So I decided to make something that he can play with where he can do that on his own. He has one of those shape sorters but he isn't strong enough to pull the ball apart to get the shapes out :( 

I started by finding a container that was semi-tall. I used a stuffing can. I decided to make it multi-colored but you can decorate it anyway that you want.

After I was done gluing the paper on I taped the bottom of it up so Little Man wouldn't be tempted to rip the paper off. Once the glue was dry I used a stencil to write Little Man's name on it (In case you haven't noticed I LOVE writing his name on his stuff lol).

I was going to color it in but decided to leave it like that. Then I cut some pipe cleaners to fit into the container without being bent.

Then I used a hole puncher to cut 6 holes in the lid of the container (I did 6 because I only used 6 different color pipe cleaners). Then to help him with his colors I punched a hole in the same 6 colors in construction paper (so he could match the colors) then I cut a circle around the hole punch and glued them onto the lid around the original holes I made.

Little Man had a lot of fun with this toy.

But after a while he just wanted to run off with the pipe cleaners and hide them from mommy.

Log Cabins

Today we decided to try and make log cabins. We filled up a baby wipe box full of small twigs and then came inside and searched for boxes. Sissy used an oatmeal box, Little Princess used a poptart box, and Little Man used a poptart mini crisps box. I didn't think that the glue would stick to the slick boxes so we taped construction paper around the sides and the tops of the boxes.

Little Man picked out the color of his construction paper and then he decided he was done. This craft is really more geared towards older children. Mommy finished his while he watched Thomas. 

After we covered the box with construction paper, We cut out yellow windows to make it look like someones inside (Little Princess insisted that we all do this). Then we used a pen and made a doorway so we would know where to put our sticks, and we glued the window pieces on.

Once everything is in place you can start gluing your sticks on. We started with our windows and doors and then started working around those.

This is as far as we got today. This one is Little Man's (even though he didn't help lol) I didn't realize that this project would take so long just putting the construction paper on! But we all had fun with it and will work on them some more tomorrow.

This one is Sissy's. She was having a hard time with the glue so she didn't very much done today.

And of course, Little Princess had to have hers pink. She dove right in on hers, she even made a porch!

We haven't added the roofs yet, we are going to wait until we have finished the bottom half of the house before we start the roof. I don't want the kids getting too overwhelmed with their cabins.

Wall Train is up!

I finally found some tape that would stick!! Here are the pictures

I have it up high right now because I think Little Man is a little too young and a little too rough, when he gets a little older I will lower it down to his level so he can play, but for right now it's just a wall decoration!

Thomas leading the way!

When Little Man saw it he said "Toot Toot!"