Frog and Fish Theme

This week we wanted to keep the fun of the water going. We did frogs and fish.
Our art projects this week include:

Paper plate frog

I cut a paper plate in half and let them paint it green.  After it was dry we drew eyes and a mouth.  Then we traced each child hands and used those for the frogs back feet!

 

 We glued strips of paper that I accordion folded to the frog then the feet/hand tracings. Then we made his front feet and glued them on. They are so cute!!

Frogs on lily pads

I cheated and used a coloring sheet I found here for the frog.  I just had the kiddos color it.  We made some lily pads. I had Big sis cut out her frog but I did the toddlers. Then we glued the frog onto the lily pad.

Fingerprint or Rainbow fish

So easy! Cut out a fish shape then give the kiddos some paint and just have them dip one finger at a time and dot it on their fish. We had some friends over today and everyone's fish turned out great!!

Koi fish

 I just folded about a 2 in section over onto the rest of the paper then folded the whole thing in half. Then I cut a triangle at the other end.  Gave the kiddos orange and yellow paint. We then cut a muffin cup in half and glued it on for the fin. After they dried I drew an eye!

For water play this week we made a frog pond in the water table.

I took some craft foam and made lily pads and the frogs. I intended to buy some plastic frogs but that did not happen.

For fine motor we played with moon dough and used chop sticks to pick up pompoms.

Th kiddos had fun and it was great fine motor practice. I got the chop stick holders at Noodles! The holders are so wonderful.

This week we read:

The Rainbow Fish By Marcus Pfister
Clown Fish By Carol K. Lindeen
Ten Little Fish By Audrey Wood
City dog, Country Frog By Mo Willems
A Frog In A Bog By Karma Wilson and Joan Rankin
Frog Knows Best By Foster and Erickson
Hooray For Fish By Lucy Cousins

All from our library!

Ocean Theme

This week we did an ocean theme. The kiddos had fun!
For our art projects this week we made:

Oceans on a paper plate

This is simple and fun for the toddlers. You just put some glue on the flat part of a paper plate and let them stick blue tissue paper to the glue. After they get it covered we added some fish and an octopus I cut out. Then I put some glue on the bottom edge and they stuck on some seaweed. I think they turned out great!

Egg carton crabs

The toddlers LOVE to paint and this was so easy for them. I just cut one of the egg cups off of an egg carton and let them go to town with the red paint. After they dried we glued on some eyes and claws. If you had bigger kids who would not put them in their mouths you could use googly eyes!

TP roll Octopus

I took a TP roll and cut 8 tentacles at the bottom. Then I spread them out a bit and set it down on the table to make the tentacles spread out. I let each of the kiddos choose their own colors so we ended up with an blue, orange and purple.

We also took some ocean creatures outside and played with them in the water table. They had a blast with the whales and dolphins.

Our reading list for the week included:

Hello Ocean By Pam Ryan
I'm the Biggest Thing In The Ocean By Kevin Sherry
The Magic School Bus On The Ocean Floor By Joanna Cole and Bruce Decan
Wow Ocean By Robert Neubecker
That's Not My Mermaid... By Fiona Watt
We found all of the wonderful books at our local library!