Big Energy-Little Learners...Can I do it all?

The Elf on The Shelf continued to bring us giggles and gifts for the month of December.  Week 2   Day 7- Fizban was found in the bathroom with a small message written on the mirror with toothpaste.  Day 8 - With a busy month we were a bit late getting decorations up so Fizban helped get us started by initiating decorating.        Day 9- We woke to Fizban reaching for the star. Crooked star that is.  Day 10 - The sneaky Elf made it onto the children's bedroom to watch over them as they slept.  Day 11 - Fizban was at play this morning sack racing with his stuffed friends.  Day 12 - Our friendly family elf brought gifts! Stickers for Little Dragon and gems for Doll Dragon. The Dragons woke before me on this weekend morning to find their stickers.  They promptly got to using them.  In their excitement they played with Fizban, which was revealed to me by the dragons themselves.    Fizban had already been low on magic last week.

This was a wonderful activity we did together, dragons of all ages.   Doll Dragon brought home the activity and it went very well with our weekly book. I made copies of the worksheet she brought home so we could all make our own turkeys.  The idea was to disguise the turkey so when it came to be Thanksgiving Day the turkey could not be found.  We brainstormed ideas that could hide a turkey the best.  I set out the craft supplies felt scissors glue tape pom poms pipe cleaner glitter markers I left this activity very open.  I tried to help when the dragons would get off topic and grab for something that didn't match their idea or have them think about how they were going to use the tool they were grabbing.  After taking a minute to think about it they would either use it or put it back.   Doll Dragons disguise kept jumping between 3 ideas so she had things that matched all of her ideas.  When the crafting was all finished the turkeys were not turkeys anym

Our fun family Elf on the Shelf, Fizban,  is back for another December month of fun!  The dragons were thrilled to see him back this year. He has already brought a sweet treat and silliness in only 6 days.  Week 1 with Fizban Day 1 he came back with his Elf on the Shelf book to give us a reminder of why he was here and what Santa's rules are.  Doll Dragon had left Twilight out that night with her hair all in a mess so Fizban helped tidy up her hair. :) Day 2 Fizban was all webbed! Spider-Man got to him and stuck him to the door with his spider webs.   Little Dragon was tickled the next morning when he saw this and was bursting with questions.  'Why would Spider-Man do that?'   I asked him what he thought.  "Because Twilight is Spider-Man's honey so he was protecting her"  Who knew?  Day 3 He was in the freezer.  No picture though.  The dragons were searching all over for him and it took until early afternoon for them to find them. But when

After reading A Turkey For Thanksgiving  we conducted a turkey race!  In the story the turkey tries running from the group so our turkeys were running to see who's turkey would get away.  The first race we rolled a die and moved that many spaces.  We used the finger movement method.  You place your finger in front of the turkey, then move/jump the turkey to the other side of you finger.  Thus 1 move.  There was counting and patience involved for this type of racing.  We played this until we had a winner.  If we rolled a 1 though we were stuck in the mud for that round.  Next we tried blowing the turkeys.   This was a much more fun way to race the turkey's.  There was much more movement for the kids.  They raced this was a few times.  Cheap, quick, and fun!  Perfect thanksgiving activity! :)