Clifford Counts Bubbles cont.

Clifford Counts Bubbles

Sponge Stamping- I cut circles out of sponges.  Then I poured blue and white paint on a paper plate and then showed the kids how to dip their sponge in the paint and then stamp onto their papers to make bubbles.

Butterflies- In the story their is a butterfly that 4 bubbles float by.  I instructed the kids to color their butterfly.  Hannah did not want to and Caden colored his.  He said he wanted to color a rainbow on it (Caden's butterfly is the top one and Hannah's is the bottom one.)  After they colored their butterfly then I had them dot paint 4 blue dots on the butterfly.  Of course, they could not stop themselves!

Honeybees- For the honeybee I drew 2 circles and and 2 ovals for the honeybees body.  Caden cut out his (his is the top honeybee).  Then I drew 4 ovals for the honeybees wings.  Caden cut out the stripes and Hannah tried to cut stripes but they were just too small to put on her honeybee.  The kids added eyes and I had them draw a smile.

Clifford Counts Bubbles

It has been a while since we have done Mommy School.  Today we did an activity from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.  We always have so much fun with that curriculum.  Both kids are always interested!:))

We started out day off with our Mommy School Slide Show (click the link below to watch it).  It is a power point presentation that I use for our circle time.  We sing a Choo Choo song, pray, discuss the day, month, date, year, and weather.  Then we sing the Days of the Week song, 12 Months in a Year song.  After circle time is over I read our story of the week.  Today it is Clifford Counts Bubbles.  After story time we sing a Bubble song and then do some activities.

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Mommy Slide Show Presentation

Hannah is learning how to use scissors.

 The kids cut out red pieces of paper and glued them to a dog printout provided by The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.

Then we blew bubbles.  I poured some purple paint in the bubble container and the kids blew bubbles on a piece of paper.

Clifford Counts Bubbles Mommy School Presentation

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Mice

Caden is 30 1/2 months old

Mice- In the story it talks about mice, so we printed out the mice blackline and colored it with marker. I did this lesson a little different. We were suppose to use fingerpaint.

Clifford Counts Bubbles- The Big, Red Dog

Oh, that piece on the far right...sticking off the page is Cliffords "Big Tail"!!!!

The Big, Red Dog- This one came out funny! The lesson was to cut red construction paper into small pieces. Print out the clifford blackline and glue red pieces on the dog. Let me explain a little about Caden first...It cracks me up because Caden always says "I want a BIG snack Mommy", I want a BIG ice cream Mommy" or "I want LOTS"! So needless to say Caden wants everything BIG, so when he cut his construction paper I guess that is the smallest he goes in his mind!

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Butterflies

Butterflies- I had to do this lesson a little different...the lesson said to print out the butterfly backline, get a dried up maker, fill a bowl with a little bit of water. Then dip the marker in the water and use them to paint the butterfly. What a great idea!!!! Well go figure, I did not have a dried up marker. So we used glitter! When one of our markers get dried up I will defiantly have to try that lesson.

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Dogs and Bones

Dogs and bones- I print and cut out the dog and bone blacklines from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm (that is were I get all of my cut outs unless it is sited otherwise). We played a color matching game with the bones. After he matched them Caden wanted to glue them on the dog.

Clifford Count's Bubbles- Honeybee

Honeybee- In the story it talks about a bumblebee... for the lesson instructions I was to cut out 1 oval, 1 circle, and wings out of construction paper. I decided to let Caden do this activity on his own with a glue stick. He also made his own lines on the bumble bee with a marker. I helped put the glue on for the eyes and antennas.

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Bunnies

Bunnies- In the story there is a Bunny, so we talked about the bunny then painted one. I know the bunny isn't brown in the story but Caden didn't notice. lol (ran out of brown construction paper to paint bunny white).

Clifford Count's Bubbles- Giant bubbles and Bubble wands

Giant Bubbles- We didn't get to make giant bubbles this week as planned in the lesson, so we just made do with mini-giant bubbles. The lesson was to make a special bubble solution and put it in a baby pool. Have the child stand in the baby pool inside of a hula hoop and lift the hula hoop up and then the child would be standing inside the bubble. Sounds like a lot of fun but for one I never was able to get a hula hoop and I just could not do that with Hannah outside with us. Maybe next year!

Bubble wands- We did make bubble wands today, but I was not able to take a picture of them. For the lesson we bent and formed pipe cleaners into bubble wands. Lots of fun!

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Sponge Stamping

Zoe making her sponge stamping.

Hannah had to try too!

Caden's sponge stamping.

With this activity we talked about the color and shape bubbles.

Clifford Counts Bubbles-Kitty Cats

Zoe, Caden's cousin wasn't too happy in this picture. Her whiskers kept falling off when she was holding up her cat to take the picture. :(

Caden's Kitty Cat. I guess I forgot to tell both of the kids to smile...they look sad. :( Then again they had snack right after they made their cat.

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Popping Bubbles

My cutie!

Very focused!

Great hand-eye coordination!

Got these bubbles at the Target $ section! :) We also poured used the colored bubbles we made that earlier that day.

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Bubble Wrap Painting

Day 3 Bubble Wrap Painting- I did this activity a little different than the directions. I cut shapes out of bubble wrap and had the kids paint their shape. Then they turned over their shape and pressed the paint side down on the paper and saw the bubbles on the paper.

Clifford Counts Bubbles- Bubbles

Circle sandwich- Bubbles are round

Bubble Paper-Add washable liquid paint to bubble solution to make a bright color. Blow bubbles onto white paper and the you will have colored bubbles. From The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.

We are also talking about the letter B. So we watched Bumble Bee Buzz Buzz. Got the idea from the awesome website The Home Teacher.

B is for Bubble Art.

Day 1 of The Itty-Bitty Bookworm Lesson- We talked alot about bubbles, the letter B, and circles. We have not gotten our book Clifford Counts Bubbles in yet...it has been so hard to find but we have used some other bubble books such as: Pop! A Book About Bubbles by Kimberly Brubaker and Bubbles, Bubbles by Kathi Appelt.