Happy St. Patricks Day!!

We started out with paint and a variety of items to paint with.....

It starts out pretty mellow....

Bryan is counting and lining up his circles....he made three sets of 5 which = 15....and yes!!...this is how he self talks to himself. I love it!! Notice how each set =5, but in different order. so one is long, and two are bunched up and they all =5!!

I was wondering how long before they started using their hands!

Green hands...they love to 'wash' the paint all over...

new paper...new interest!

um...coooool!


Ali is 'helping' Addy paint her own hands. My first reaction was to tell her she could do it herself...but this was soooo sweet!

St. Paddys Pots o Gold

Today we placed out yellow tissue paper, green paddy garland, glue, and brushes along with a black pot.

Valentines....Be Mine

I saw this on someone elses blog...I just wrapped string around blocks...some printed, some smooshed it around to make strokes, some just globbed. I think I will use bigger blocks next time and a little less paint. But I like this. :)

Patterning :)

Sponges with liquid watercolor make great stamp pads!! We started out making hearts with fingerprints and decided that using your whole hand was soooooo much coooooler!

This is a nipple that you would use to feed a calf.....makes great circles!It sure is hard not to eat the candy hearts that we are using for project!!!!!!!Salt Tray.....

Feathers, Paint, and Glue.....

Glue........"It's dripping Annie! It's dripping off the edge of this feather and into the lake of glue! See! See Annie, how its running down the side like that?!!" I sure do Quinn! Like a stream into a lake.....So very cool!

Sooo Purdy!!!They painted first then glued on some feathers...Art.....

Beading and Baskets

This is how our projects evolve. We started out Beading onto the rexlace (plastic rope)....and when most of them had finished, Ali was fascinated with how the beads sounded as she poured them from basket to basket. She was here for another 30 minutes or so pouring and while doing so she was saying things to herself like....'this basket has more, this one has less, lets fill this one with all the beads....etc...All math terms.....

Great for eye hand coordination.....and after they do this enough times...they will start patterning the beads automatically...I won't even have to tell them to. :)

valentine....

This is part of our new science area. I want to do a few more things to it before I totally blog about it. They really like what is already there! Right now I put in pink playdough that smells like vanilla and cinnamon, smooth shiney rocks, large noodles, copper cake pans, heart placemats, and later I added heart cupcake papers.

In the sensory bin there is a variety of colors of rice. I made it simply by adding dropfuls of liquid watercolor from www.discountschoolsupply I added heart playing cards they can match up and heart containers.

The easle has pink, white, purple, and red....They all decided to come into the messy room this morning. I did just put out the playdough...nice and warm. The other table has some stamping. I just added some liquid watercolor to paper towel strips and let them stamp away with heart stamps.Armaan and Alondra are sitting in the reading area and Alondra was reading him a book. Of course she moved before I could take the shot. She loves to 'take care' of him!