Golly Good Group of G Activities!

Weekly Review

(All the activities we did that I didn't have time to blog about)

This was a hit!

As always I close the door and prepare the bath while the kids are jumping up and down with excitement outside the door asking if it is ready yet.

I think it is my favorite part :)

When it is all ready I open the door slowly and ask "are you sure you need a bath? You aren't that stinky."

They scream "yes! yes!'"

Spencer adds in "I stinky, ewwww"

To make this bath:

I made clean dirt and put drops of food coloring in it. I left the stirring up to the kids.

I stuck foam flowers to the walls and popped the fake flowers off the stems and put them in the water.

I dyed the water green, but you can't really tell in the picture.

Lastly I set out garden/sand toys and some giraffes.

Paper Town

With Spencers obsession with cars I thought that a paper town would be a perfect station!

My idea came from G is for Go and started off by making letter G roads.

Athena and Spencer each decorated their own G roads while I made the number 3.

Learning shapes with goldfish and counting with goldfish.

These green treys we used to count the gold fish were 10 cube treys.

We counted by fives!

Story boards really encourage creative story telling.

These are personal story boards but they can be used together as well.

Athena enjoyed the butterflies and the people.

Spencer built a bridge for his cars to get across the river.

We explored Gak

And placed orders in the flower shop.

I wanted to do this activity multiple times but the kids tore apart the flowers :(.

These are are activities for the letter G!

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Elephant Faces

Elephant Faces (masks) We used: Three paper plates Paint or markers Paint brushes Stapler Scissors Yarn First paint the bottom of the paper plate. While the kids painted I cut the other paper plate in half for the ears. Using the third plate I cut out the textured part of the plate to make the trunks. Paint (or color) the rest of the pieces. Staple them together to make an elephant. Cut out small holes for eyes and small holes behind the ears to attach the yarn. Now that the lesson is over I have the masks hanging in the playroom. They make a neat decoration.

Painting With Squirt Guns

We did this as a Fathers Day project, but it fits in outside play perfectly. I liked this for Fathers because it was an interactive activity for the kids to do with Jerry to celebrate him and the time they enjoy spending with him. I filled 1 gun with yellow paint and 2 guns with black paint. The squirt guns we used were from the dollar store and had a decently big hole to pour the paint into. Some squirt guns have itty bitty holes that make squirting paint into the gun very difficult. Taped off the canvas...and made the kids pose Then the guns were handed to the kids and dad. Instructions were to shoot the canvas not each other. Very simple. Start squirting! The squirting went on and on. I refilled the guns a couple times so the activity could continue. Jerry also took time with each Dragon to squirt with them. With a Star Wars theme we were looking at having black as the primary color and yellow as the secondar

Mini Story Boards

Mini Story Boards We used: Foam Cookie sheets Magnets Paper I found the cookie sheets at the dollar store and loved the idea of the kids telling their own stories using movable magnets. I cut out flowers with the foam (you can cut out any design and use construction paper instead of foam) and little people then stuck a magnet to the back. I cut out bugs and stuck magnets to the back of those too. Then I drew little scenes that would inspire a story and put them on the cookie sheet. One demonstration and their imaginations took off on their own :)

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