Alphabet fun craft - {Denise Fleming Virtual Book Club for Kids}

 

I'm sooo happy that we didn't miss the latest Virtual Book club featuring Denise Fleming!! I even got some books from our Library for it! YAY! We were able to get a wonderful Alphabet book called "Alphabet under Construction"
I read it to the little ones and then we did a craft. What I love about this book is that the older children loved it too (they had already read it on the way home from the Library!!) We then had a brain storm on otherways we could decorate the letters, like "s" stripes, "e" eyecatching colour, "r" raindrops!!
Another fabbo thing about this activity is that it covered all of my children's ages! Zeke and Hannah came up with more advanced alliteration combinations, it was super!!

 Esther making her EYE CATCHING "E's" in complimentary colours Red and Green!

 Zeke pondering what other combo's he can come up with.... so far

"I" illusion, "P" puzzle, "A" abstract

 Sophia is punching out lots of SPOTS for her "s"

 Sapphire wanting to help Esther with sticking spots on her work!

 Now for some finger painting! CUTE!!!

 

 "S" is for sparkle.... Sparkly fingers and nose!!

 colouring in her rainbow "R"

 We copied the tiled "T" for Esther's name from the book.

 Hannah joined in too with some "H" for happy faces

 

This is Esther's finished name:

"E" for eyecatching, "S" for sparkle, "T" for tiles

"H" for holey, "R" for rainbow!

Sophia's finished name:

"S" for spotty, "O" for opposite, "P" for patchy,

"H" for hopeful, "I" for inky and "A" for alphabet!

What a fun time we all had!! Happy reading and crafting and thanks heaps for popping in!

Smiles The Torrents'

Autumn crowns - leaf craft for children

 

Our wonderful girls are soooo amazing!! (as of course is our son!) Just the other day we all went to the park and I collected some leaves, I LOVE AUTUMN and collecting leaves is a MUST!!!It 's like picking flowers without getting into trouble!!! hee he
As the afternoon progressed Esther came up to me with the usual comment.....
"Mummy what can I do??" I usually tell her go and draw or read a book... but this time I said, "Why don't you look at the leaves Mummy collected and sort them out into colours and sizes or what leaves you think belong together!!"
She was super excited and run to the play room to do exactly that!! (YAY!) After awhile she sang out saying that she wanted to make a crown with the leaves! WOW!!! Well you can imagine that the mention of that soon had Hannah and Sophia eagerly joining in!! It wasn't long before (with help from me with the Hot glue gun!) They came up with their own Nature Masterpieces!!!

 

 

 

Off to the dress up box for some co-ordinating costumes and they were all outside, dancing around with their very amazing Autumn Crowns!!!!

( I gotta say it inspired me sooo much I made one too!!)
Don't you just LOVE IT when your treasures use their imagination, crafty ability and surprise you with it all!!
Smiles The Torrents'

Frog craft for children - Egyptian Unit study (animals in the Nile)

 

We will be continuing our Egyptian Unit study for a few more weeks into this term and I still have lots more to show you! For the little girls we looked at animals that live in the Nile River! FROGS are one of those and so a frog craft (which also worked well when they came up again in the 10 plagues) was in order!
It was just meant to be some froggie puppets (from HERE under frog's eggs!)

 

 

but in the end Sophia and Esther's imagination went wild and a puppet theatre complete with log and pond was created!!!!

Well then the "5 little speckled frog" song was sung over and over and Mummy couldn't have been happier!!

Smiles The Torrents'

Rainy day fun!

Tuesday was a day FULL of rain, in saying that the rest of the week is most to be pretty wet too!! With some yucky bugs going around our home also, we made the most of the indoors and actually had one of the best rainy days in a LONG TIME!!!

 

 

Zeke was busy making some minecraft papercraft, Hannah, Sophia and Esther were mostly painting. Sapphire enjoyed books and games in our specially made (thanks heaps Auntie Carli, sending lots of waves and hugs your way!!!!) cubby that fits over our dinning table (and having sisterly visitors pop in!!) and I made scones!!Any rainy day always calls for a devonshire tea!!

 Just gone into the oven.....

 

 SOOO love cubby fun!!

(not the best photo's-sorry!)

The holidays have been a lot of fun with family down from WA too, so whether RAIN or SHINE the last 2 weeks have been Wonderful!
Smiles The Torrents'

The River Nile cooking craft - Egyptian Unit study

When you say to the children.....

"Your going to make the Nile River today with a giant cookie!" you get some pretty excited responses!!!

I saw this awesome idea HERE and knew it would be perfect to do while looking more closely at the Nile.
I made my favourite biscuit recipe ( making Hannah's chocolate flavour) and then rolled out 3 oval shapes.
The children then each had to make their own labels for the places on the Egyptian map!

 

 

We made some blue and green icing and popped it in homemade bags for pipping and then they all got to work. Marking out the Nile and the fertile land surrounding each side! Even the Red sea was put in!!

 

   

 

They looked at the map they had coloured earlier in the term HERE to make sure each place was in its rightful PLACE!! Here are all their completed COOKIE MAPS.....

This is Zeke's finished map

 

 Hannah's more "dirt" looking map!YUMMY!

Sophia and Esther's finished map, complete with jaffa markings for the places!

 

 

By the end of it all it was afternoon tea, ummm what shall we eat??? Let's eat Egypt!!! YUMMO!!!! Soph and Esther were in straight away!! I joined in too, in fact due to the HUGE amount of water that flooded some of the Nile Rivers (or the very full Red sea), it made a perfect dipping spot for some extra "water" on the otherwise "Dry" land!! 

Smiles The Torrents'

The Nile River craft - Egyptian Unit study

 

 

 Tuesday 2 weeks ago saw us making our own little "Nile River." (idea HERE) We sorted all the goodies we needed, which thankfully we had all around the home and garden! We decided to make our "Nile" with it's two branches into the main river and then decorate it with the Spinx, Pyramids and some wildlife (snakes and a croc!)

 

 

The children got a little too excited with the grass seeds so I wasn't sure how well it would go, especially when our river was totally flooded and stayed wet for days!!!

Here is a picture after a week......

 

 

and now 2 weeks later!!

With looking at Moses and how he was placed in the Nile in a basket and the plagues with how the first plague was the River Nile being turned to blood it's all worked in really nicely to bring the lesson home for my treasures!! Love it when a theme runs on through our learning!!!
Smiles The Torrents'