November pre-school

Here is what we did for fun in November:

Tissue paper suns for the window and glue & paint paper plate moons. They didn't like the sun oranges, but ate the strawberries and cheese & tortilla moons.  

They used star cookies cutters in paint, and then put glitter on them before the paint dried.  You can't tell from the picture, but they turned out nice and sparkly.  We had one big glittery mess at the end of this project.  

They did paint and shaving cream planets.  Our friend really got into it, whereas Weston and Savannah wanted to stay clean.  

The rocket launchers were a fun idea from Pinterest, but they didn't actually work that well.  It was fun to make blue toast though, by first painting blue colored milk on the bread.  They kept asking for blue milk later in the week.  

We did a little indoor camping.  I talked Alex into setting up a tent in the living room.  It was fun to play and read books in there. "A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee" was a fun book to read.  

They also liked doing s'mores and hot chocolate.  Savannah tried the chocolate marshmallows on a straw, but most of the kids didn't really like them.  They were cute though!  Check out what a preschooler's s'more looks like... I let them spread melted chocolate on a graham cracker.  Then I gave them a graham cracker with a melted marshmallow to sandwich on their chocolate.  What a mess!  They look messy, but they tasted yummy - I ate a couple of them!

They did handprint paint campfires.  It was hard to talk Weston into getting his hands dirty, but Savannah got into the project.  We had a little hotdog and watermelon picnic outside and also put together some trail mix.  

We had fun with fall leaves.  They did some painted fall trees and also some wreaths with real leaves. "Fletcher and the Falling Leaves" was a cute book about a fox that tries to put back the fallen leaves on the tree.

And we did Thanksgiving and turkeys, of course.  The favorite activities were eating popcorn from turkey cups and playing find the turkey.  We hid the paper bag turkeys around the house, and they had to search for them.  The hide and seek always seems to be fun, although they can't seem to get the concept that you're not supposed to show where you hid it!  Weston would go stand in the area where he hid the turkey, with a big grin on his face.  Savannah would run straight to it, pointing and yelling, "There it is!"  

"This First Thanksgiving Day" book was good for them to hear, but they loved the books "Turkey Trouble" and "T'was the Night Before Thanksgiving".  In "Turkey Trouble", the turkey realizes he is in trouble as Thanksgiving Day comes and tries to disguise himself as several different animals.

(It's much more fun to search for turkeys in a messy house... I realized I was giving a tour of our mess!  It's not always this bad.  Oh well.  Keeping it real.  I'm not trying to win any awards for having a clean house.  I wanted to capture the kids playing the game, because they were so cute.)