"P" Collage

E(2) and I had so much fun making a collage with "P" items...pom poms, pipe cleaners, and paper!

I taped a piece of contact paper (sticky side out) onto one of our sliding glass doors. I gave E a basket full of goodies, and we got to work.

We've done many, many contact paper collages, but evidently they were too long ago, because this seemed like a new experience for E. She loved exploring the stickiness of the contact paper, and then testing out the glass to see if things would stick to it as well.

Coloring Mandalas

O(5) and I have really enjoyed coloring mandalas during our "Mama and O Craft Time" lately. It is calming to color a repeating geometric pattern, and it's fun! We use fine tip markers and have great conversations while we color.

Pop Paper Dance Party

Since it's "P" week, we had a Pop Paper Dance Party before supper this week! I spread out the pop paper (saved from various packages) and taped it to the floor. I turned the music up loud, and we started dancing. The girls LOVED this! SO much fun!

Simple Addition Power Tower

Here's another idea from Pinterest! O(5) LOVES math, so I was thrilled to see these Power Towers for simple addition on Pinterest.

The Power Towers were so easy and inexpensive to put together, and O LOVES them! I printed the Power Tower label on photo paper and glued it to a Pringles container using scrapbook glue. While I was doing that, my mom was writing simple addition problems on the bottoms of Dixie cups. She wrote the answers inside the cup, so that O can check her work.

We took turns solving the addition problems and stacking the dixie cups. The best part (according to O!) was knocking the tower down.

I love the smile on her face in this one! This girl loves to learn!

Tonight during supper, I reminded the girls that tomorrow is Saturday, and I asked "Do you know what that means?" (I was trying to get them excited about sleeping late!) O says with a smile "No school for me, and no homeschool for E(2)...but I'll probably do some schoolwork anyway!"

Letter C Activities

E(2) received a Letter "C" Fun Pack a few weeks ago with crayons, "C" printables, cat stickers, and a cat puppet kit. We've had lots of fun doing "C" activities ever since...

Painting a "C" printable with her dot painters.


Playing with Clay. This was SO much fun!


They rode a cow train.



We looked at cotton in a cotton field.


We made a cat puppet.


E(2) is VERY proud of her cat!


E enjoyed finding C objects in the corn sensory bowl.


Playing with the clock puzzle was so much fun!


A yummy sandwich cat for lunch!


So much fun playing with cows and cats.


Matching cloud cards (from Montessori Print Shop). I love to hear sweet little E say words like "lenticular" and "stratocumulus." So, so cute!


Coloring a C printable.


Playing Candyland! This was tons of fun. We played twice in a row and would have played a couple more times if we hadn't had to go get O from school.


E LOVES to play with the cash register!


Putting coins in her piggy bank.


Playing with castle blocks


We saw cows at the fair (and ate cotton candy).


Matching her cats to her cat book


Putting together a cat puzzle.


E dressed as a cat.


E dressed as a cupcake.



We had so much fun with the letter "C." We're skipping around a bit, and we're now on our second week of "P" activities!