Dinosaur week!

I thought princess week was going to be impossible to beat. But apparently, I just have to let things get a little messy and bring out the dinos. If it was possible, Lily loved dinosaur week even more than anything else we have done!

 

 

Day 1- We started out strong this week and added a few more things to today. She was having so much fun!

 

Story: Dinosaur Shapes

Art: Create a dino out of shapes

Sensory: Felt board & 10 Little Dinos song

Math: Magnetic shape matching

Snack: Dinosaur toast

**extra: Memory game

**extra: Growing dinosaurs in water

**extra: Dinosaur water bin

Dinosaur and volcano toast. Couldn't you tell that was a volcano?!



Matching the shape magnets to their dinosaurs.

I will show you what I did, but I will NOT look at you.

They started out really small...

Then we added them to water an they grew big. Well, bigger. Verrryyy slooowwwllly. By the end of the week, they were twice their size and everyone had forgotten about them.

Dinosaur bath!

She loves playing with critters in the water

Dinosaur matching game.

Making her own dinosaur creation out of common shapes.

Although she likes gluing, this was not her favorite activity by any means.

Felt board dinos. We sang a little dino song to go with it. Very fun.

They had to all go by their friends, of course.

 Day 2-
Story: Curious George goes to the Museum & Paleontologist book
Sensory: "Dirt" bin with salt dough bones
Math: Ordering salt dough bones
Snack: Sand/fossil pudding cups

Dirt dough. This was very cool play with, but it stained your hands.

I had made salt dough bones to hide in the "dirt." She had a great time digging, discovering, cleaning off and putting her dinosaur bones in order.

Digging in the "dirt."

Putting her bones in order. She did this all by herself. I was impressed.

Explaining something to me

 

Fossil dessert cups. Wade really liked this. Lily took one taste and decided to pass. She's not a fan of all the different textures mixed together.

Day 3-
Story: Dinosaur! Dinosaur! & Dinosaur babies book & Dinosaur!
Art: Hatching dino egg picture (coloring)
Sensory: Fizzy hatching dinosaur eggs
Math: Match dinosaur to it's similar colored egg sheet (no pictures of this)
Snack: Rice crispy treat (w/Oreos) dino eggs


The egg is hatching!

Look! A baby dinosaur! She's apparently not amused...

Fizzy dinosaur eggs. This was another one that stained your hands, but both kids had a blast helping the baby dinosaurs "hatch."

You can see, the water got pretty black...

... so we gave the dinosaurs a bath!



Rice crispy treat (with Oreos) dinosaur eggs

 Day 4-
Story: Saturday Night at the Dino Stomp & Dino Dance
Snack & Math: Dinosaur gummy counting cards
**extra: Scavenger hunt for dinosaurs inside Easter Eggs (no pictures of this one either)

Counting with dinosaur gummy treats

 Day 5-
Story: Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex & How Do Dinosaurs Go to School & I'm Bad
Sensory: Dinos in "mud" playdough
Snack: Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets for dinner!
MOVIE DAY!! The Land Before Time

We used the chocolate playdough we made for Valentines week for mud. Lily built a road.

Wade made footprints

And a "set up." He's big into setting up displays lately.

Lily made a dinosaur nest.

Then she added some plates to this dinosaur, as apparently he was lacking them.

Finished product

I had lots of other activities planned for this week, but we just didn't get to them all... Oh well, it will give me an excuse to have another dinosaur themed week!

Princess week

Princess week! I was so excited about doing this theme, I just knew Lily would love it. I planned to incorporate jewels, crowns, princesses (obviously), pink and all things girly. She had a really good time with it and Wade even enjoyed himself when he got a chance to do the activities with us.

 

 

Day 1: Today Wade had a snow day, so we just did a few activities and then played in the snow for the rest of the day!
Book- Princess Pigsty
Art- Decorating a princess (or prince) crown
Snack- Princess popcorn
Game- Princess memory (didn't get any pictures of them playing this)

Wade was very serious about decorating his crown

I was going to make this into an actual crown to wear, but there was really no bending this one when it dried!

This was soooo good! I melted white chocolate chips, added purple food coloring and drizzled it over popcorn. Then I sprinkled on some candy hearts. YUM

Day 2: This day was probably the most fun!
Books- Princess and the Pea, Princess and the Peas & Carrots
Art- Fabric strip mattresses with pom pom pea
Sensory- Rice bin
Snack- Candy "peas" & crown shaped cinnamon sugar toast
Game- Where's the pea?

Gluing on fabric strips to represent the many mattresses the princess slept on

Coloring her princess

Lily's Princess and the Pea picture

Princess rice bin. THIS. WAS. AWESOME.

Adding in some flower and heart shaped buttons

Little People babies and princesses came to play in the rice

Adding some fabric flowers and jewels

Snack time!

This was a fun game. It is supposed to look like the many mattresses that the princess slept on... I would hide (color) a pea on the chalk board and Lily would have to guess which number or color it was under. We played this over and over. Then when Wade came home, we did it with sight words for his homework!

Day 3:
Books- The Princess and the Pig, 26 Princesses
Art- Princess hat
Sensory- Orange and pink homemade playdough w/Little People
Snack- Castle shaped lunch
Math- Making a castle out of shapes
Movie- Veggie Tales- The Penniless Princess

We decorated a princess hat, like the one the pig wore in our story, with tissue paper, jewels and sparkly flowers.

I made this play dough over the weekend and she was so excited to play with it. She picked the colors- orange and pink. With glitter, of course!

 

 

Castle sandwich for lunch!

Making a castle out of shapes. I had already traced them on a piece of paper for her, so she just had to match them up. Wade did this with us too, but I just gave him the shapes to create a castle on his own.

Day 4: What is a princess week without dragons?! We did go to the library story time in the morning and ran some errands, so we had a short day.
Book- Lovaby Dragon, The End
Art- Toliet paper roll firebreathing dragon
Math- Jewel patterns

We painted the tp roll to begin our dragon

 

Ahhh! A firebreathing dragon!

 

With Lily, I kept her patterns very simple. She didn't really understand what to do, but I figure it was a good concept to introduce to her.

Wade is super good at patterns, so his were pretty complicated.

Day 5: The last day is usually what I base my week on. Movie day!
Books- Cinderella, Princesses on the Run
Art- Wands
Snack- Wand shaped rice crispy treats
Math- Do-A-Dot princesses
Movie- Cinderella

While Wade did his homework, Lily did a couple Do-A-Dot princess sheets



The kids decorated both sides to their wands and we left them to dry

After they were dry, I attached them to a stick (I am treading on dangerous ground, I know) and tied some ribbons onto them. They turned out really cute, but I didn't get any pictures.

Rice crispy wands decorated with candy pearls and blue sugar to enjoy during the movie. We had 2 friends over, so this worked out great for everyone to have a treat and watch the movie with us.