stART – week 1/25/10
This is a great blog carnival A Mommy Adventures starts every Thursday. Read your child a book & then do art that goes with it then link your blog up to her McKlinky. Lots of fun!
This week I decided to do something a little different. I am doing stART with all 3 of my kids! I hope that it’s ok to do this for my baby, she is 9 months but she likes me to read to her so I am posting what I did with her for stART!
I read: Baby Einstein’s Baby da Vinci My Body book to her. She loved all the mirrors in the book because she likes looking at herself – I don’t blame her she is so stinkin’ cute, I know I’m her mom & of course I’m going to think that!
To go with the book about our bodies, I decided to paint my 9 month old’s feet. So with pink paint I painted the bottoms of her tootsies & made her footprints on construction paper.
For my oldest (4 yrs)
We read Chicka Chicka 123
We are reading this book all week & doing an assortment of activities with it – what a great book!
JJ stamping his numbers on his Chicka Chicka tree
For my 2 year old we have been working on our colors so we read the Crayon Box Talked.
This is a nice book for kids who are learning their colors!
I cut up squares of paper, had Jumping Bean use different mediums for each color:
red – marker, orange – crayon, yellow – oil pastel, green – color pencil, blue – bing dobber, purple – water color, black – pen, white – nothing (plain paper) , brown – acrylic paint, gray – glitter glue, pink – paper mache. He enjoyed using all the different mediums. Then I hole punched it & used a binder ring – now he has his own color flip chart!
great projects! love the footprints and the chicka chicka tree is cute! we love that book.
great idea to make ring flashcards of their art for colors!
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The footprints are too sweet! And, I really like the idea of using a different medium for each color.
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I love her little feetprint! How cute!
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These are all great projects!
Letting kids be creative with paints, markers and construction paper is wonderful!
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That little footprint painting is adorable.
I will have to check into this for my homeschoolers.
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I love the footprints! Can’t find your flashback hehehe.
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Love the color flip chart! We read The Crayon Box that Talked when we did our unit on colors and my kids were wild about it!
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Great projects, I’m anxious to read more about your blog.
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What fun ideas! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom was my favorite book as a kid. I didn’t know about the number one!
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what great ideas! may have to start that with my kiddos.
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Love the color flip chart! Great idea. We love the Chicka Chicka 123 book here too!
About the colored ice cubes in the bathtub. It shouldn’t leave anything behind in your bathtub. Just mix the water before hand with only a drop or two of food coloring and then pour the water into the ice cube tray to freeze instead of putting a drop into each ice cube like I did. =) That was TOO much!
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I’m stopping over to follow from Friday Follow! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is one of my favorite books. I have a mobile from it too. 🙂
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I love the idea of doing art after the book. I know what we’re doing next weekend!
Footprints, Coconuts, and Colors- what a FUN week!
Wonderful projects! I love the footprints! We have that Crayon book and it’s cute.
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Those are great projects. The Footprints is my favorite-what a great idea. I want to do that with my son tomorrow:)
Chicka Chicka 123 ( I think the original is Chicka Chicka BOOM BOOM) are such fun classics. Looks like your kids are having a blast!
Too fun!
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What a cool idea! I have never really hard of doing artsy activities to go along with books!
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Wow these are awesome crafts!
What great ideas! One day a week we try and spend extra time doing lots of fun craft and activities, this last week it was all about Caps for Sale, you can see it on my blog if you would like.
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I love all three stART projects. I am so excited that the baby was able to get in on the fun too! I think Juliette could handle some foot print art now :0) Thank you for linking up and sharing your amazing ideas!!!!
I love the idea of making the color book with the different mediums. I am definitely going to try that.
I love the color flip chart! Such a great way to practice colors.
lovely post. we love chicka too! so much you can do with that book.
I’m so impressed and hoping to use some of your ideas with my little ones!
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