The play's the thing

We spent the last week making 10 giant paper mâché nuts for Lucy's upcoming Willy Wonka play. It was a labor of love. And glue. Lots of glue :)

Rainbows for Miss Lu

Miss Lucy and I made the following rainbow to hang on her bedroom wall. We followed this tutorial. The whole time we were melting the crayons, she kept on shouting "Come on Red! Go Red! You can do it! Go, go!" to encourage the appropriate color to both melt and run clear down the canvas. Gotta love her enthusiasm.

Preschool today

It is the last week of our co-op preschool. Lucy is sad. I am, well, I'm ok with it. It's been really good for Lu, she's grown socially and academically, and I've appreciated the extra 6 hours a week that arise whenever I'm not hosting.

But I'm hosting this week. I've got Thursday covered—we're making cupcakes, decorating them, and having an end of the year party. Today ... I decided to focus on counting to ten (numbers were given the short shrift now and then throughout the year). So among other things we're reading the story "Ten Little Fish."

I drew these ten fish and their fishbowl for the art activity. I'll have the kids color the fish and cut them out. I'll staple a ziploc sandwich bag to the front of the fishbowl page so that it falls mostly in the bowl itself. Then the kids can add their fish to their bowl. I totally stole this idea from a project my mom had Lucy do when we up there involving coloring bugs and putting them in a bug cage. 

If you need to entertain preschool-aged children, I scanned the files. You can download them here.