Preschool: c is for comet

Since preschool on Tuesday was a little crazy, we did the lowercase c on another day. We read the book "When Halley came to Jackson". It's about Halley's Comet. Then we made our own comets. First we colored the comet's tail using yellow food color mixed with a little bit of water and dyed paper towels with eye droppers.
Then we traced the lowercase c with gold glitter.

We glued it on a black piece of paper and added glow is the dark form star stickers.

Here's how mine turned out.

Preschool: C is for Cat

We started a new nursery rhyme this week: Little Jack Horner.

Today, I had Kira and Gabe over again. When we started preschool only Robert and Kira wanted to join me. I was very excited that Robert wanted to do preschool.

So we went over the nursery rhyme and then read CopyCats out of the AlphaTales book. Instead of trying to turn the letter C into a Cat, we just make cats with paper plates and paint. I got the idea off of notimeforflashcards. When I started pulling out the paints, Gabe and Hailey decided to join us.
The finished product.

Hailey's is top left with Kira's next to hers. Gabe is bottom left with Robert next to his.

C is for Car

This is how to turn a diaper box into a car.

We first read "My Car" by Byron Barton. I read it straight through once, then Hailey wanted more. So, I read it one word at a time so she could repeat it. The book has short, easy words and very few sentences.
Second, I covered the diaper box with butcher paper. To do this you'll need 4 feet of paper (you could also use wrapping paper if you want). I only had 3 feet and needed to use computer paper to cover up some holes. Once it's covered Hailey was allowed to color it with markers.

Then you add the wheels with yellow hubcaps.

Make sure you add the head lights. You don't want it get pulled over for having those broken.

A steering wheel is a must. I tried attaching it with a brad but my brad was too small. Also a paper plate would have been better and more sturdy but I was out.

Finally you add the brake lights in back and you are ready to go.

After Hailey was done decorating, she enjoyed rocking the car back and forth.

C is for Caterpillar

For the letter C we focused on Caterpillars since we did Butterflies for B, I felt like it would flow nicely together.
Here is Hailey using crayons to color the C shaped caterpillar.

This cute little paper has a caterpillar and a butterfly to pops out of the cocoon. Also it has a butterfly finger puppet that was fun to play with. This came for the Primary Activity Book Volume 2 that goes along with the Nursery/Sunbeam manual.

Here is Hailey fascinated with the finger puppet.

Then we painted egg cartons green to turn them into caterpillars.

After they dried, I poked two hole in the top and looped one pipe cleaner through the holes. Then I curled the pipe cleaners with a pencil. I also glue the eyes on with Elmer's glue (not the best choice, a hot glue gun would've been better.) Cutting the eye carton and poking the holes was harder then I thought it would be.

I thought this activity was so cute that I wanted to do it too. Since Robert was asleep I even had free hands to do it and be more involved. Hailey stays with the task at hand when she sees other people doing it too. My finished project is on the left side.

This is the caterpillar that we add to when we introduce a new letter. Under the stairs is Hailey's toys and the caterpillar with help decorate the wall surrounding the toys.

We also read the same butterfly books that we had for the last lesson.