stART - C is for Clown

This week we our theme is All About me, including body parts and family. I thought C is for Clown by Stan and Jan Berenstain would be a fun book and would go well with a body parts project about parts of the face.  

This week Sprout made a clown using a paper plate, foam shape stickers, googly eyes, and pom nose.

I was really impressed with Sprout as she did this project because it actually resembled a face, and I thought it would look more like a Picasso with body parts all over.  The only thing I helped with was the glue.  I put the glue on the backs of the eyes and turned them over to give them to Sprout so that she would add them to the plate.  She would then just push the eye down wherever I happened to be holding it.

Sprout also practiced her fine motor skills as she took the paper backing off the foam stickers.  She did a really great job with this!

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stART When It's Purim!

This week's stART project went along with our Purim week!  We read When It's Purim, by Edie Stoltz Zolkower.  

This book is very cute for a youngin' like D.  It is about a family that is getting ready for Purim by making Hamantaschen, a very yummy treat! 

After reading When It's Purim, we made our own craft hamantaschen.  I was looking for a craft project to go along with this book, and decided to make one up.  We used a paper plate.  D colored the bottom of the plate with a brown crayon.

Then we glued Pom Poms on the "top" of the plate.  D especially liked this part of the project.  We have found that she really likes glue.  In fact, when she saw me bring out the supplies for the craft, she went straight to her high chair and was ready to get going!

When she was done I folded up the sides like I do when I make real hamantaschen, and made the circle into a triangle.  I then stapled the ends together (making sure that the staple closed entirely).  Here is D checking out her new hamantaschen.

Now that we finished our craft, we made the dough for our hamantaschen .  It has to sit in the fridge overnight, so we made it this morning, and will do the cutouts, filling and baking tomorrow.  Mmmmm... can't wait. 

Here is D inspecting the measuring spoons!

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