Bee Mine... Bumble Bee Valentine Day Fun!

Bumble Bees, Writing Practice, Paint Hearts, and Pinto Bean Math

Here it is.....! MJ's sweet little bumble bee. I had already decided to that everyone in the family would do a Valentine's Day bee.

This craft was very simple. We took stuff that we already had and used them! 

What we needed:

Toilet paper roll

Craft sticks

Permeant marker 

Googly eyes

Felt for wings and nose

Glitter

Glue (I like to use a hot glue gun)

Yellow and Black construction paper

At this point my every-so-sweet 2 year old is up now. He destroyed all of the piles and what I was doing and even lost one of my googly eyes. This mad one irritated Mama! It was so much fun because he was whining and wanting to do a bumble bee too, and MJ was wondering what he could do next! So I pulled out the paint and let them paint! JD did it later and I wasn't able to get photos of him but they each made enough to send to both set of grandparents and to decorate the house with! All it took was me grabbing a bunch of typing paper and drew some large hearts on the pictures, I finished up doing my bee and work on JD work on his. Dada did his once he go home for dinner.

Now I can't remember when this happened but I am sure it was well little man was sleeping. MJ loves to tell people about our puppy! So I figure why not let him write about it! He was very proud of this when he was all done.  Then I tried to do replicate from what I remember about school and did repeat the a few of words individually.

I got this idea from Webster's Early Learning Center's Math Night about 3 years ago, when we went to go with my BBF's son. I wrote the number of beans that go in each slot and then grabbed a heaping pile of pinto beans. Then I gave him directions and that was that. Next he had to ignore the numbers and count by twos. JD even enjoyed to do this.

I really like the February/Valentine's Day mantle.

May Day

Happy May Day!!

Yesterday, we made some daffodils out of egg cartons for today's May Day.

I made a simple pattern on construction paper folded into quarters, then then cut them out. I had the egg cartons cut out and he was ready! We had already discided to put the yellow cups with the white and the orange with the yellow. (He knows that's how mama likes them.) My son painted the bottoms and that was all the "glue" they needed... I would of never thought of that!

We have neon green straw for the stems and green construction paper for the leaves. Added a little card and that was that!

They turned out perfect! This is a very simple project to to with pre-kindergarder. I am very glad my almost three year old was napping!

Today is also my Auntie Helen's birthday! So happiest birthdays to you!!!!!