Ladybug Day

Another great book from the month of March was "Ladybug Girl."  If you haven't read this one it is a gem.  We made paper plate ladybugs & strawberries with chocolate chips that looked like ladybugs. The first day of class was short on time, so we colored our paper plates with crayons.  Aren't they adorable?

Day two class was able to paint their ladybugs, but sadly I missed getting a picture of their adorable ladybugs.

Knuffle Bunny

Who doesn't LOVE Mo Willems?  Two weeks ago we did "Knuffle Bunny" in class and made our very own Knuffle Bunny!  Mr. Willems also has a fantastic website that had tons of other great activities.

Where Does the Time Go?

The holiday season and a little home remodeling have kept me from keeping up to date on the blog.  Here is a glimpse to some of what we did in December:

Project from A Wish to be a Christmas Tree

Project from The Polar Express

In other exciting news... I will be teaching I Heart Art &  Tots Heart Art this summer!

I will continue teaching from my home but will also be offering classes in the Arcadia area.  Please let me know if you are interested in either the Mesa or Phoenix classes.  I will create my schedule based on interest and have a calendar or classes out in the next month or so!

Thanksgiving

The week of Thanksgiving we read this book:

Afterwards we made pilgrim finger puppets:

And adorable turkeys:

Sylvester

Another personal favorite that we did during the month of November!  We made our own magic pebbles; painted red with glitter.

Then we talked about what we would wish for if we had a magic pebble.  I thought I should share mine:

Then because you find rocks in dirt we made dirt cups.

Harry the Dirty Dog

 This was one of my favorite books when I was little and I was excited to share it with the kids.  I got some great ideas from the Crafty Crow.  After reading the story we had a dog wash.

 Then I let the kids color their own Harry.  The idea was to keep one Harry clean and the other dirty, as you can see not everyone got the memo:)

 Then we talked about where we'd go if we were a dog and wanted to get dirty.

 Then I made doggy treats aka bread sticks for the kids.

 They got to paint their treats with butter and then choose to decorate it with parmesan or cinnamon & sugar.

 Cinnamon and sugar was by for the favorite.

Not Scared of Anything!

To round out our Halloween themed month we read:

 Such a fun book!  And we made adorable crows and scarecrows to go with it.