Preschool: P is for Pigs

This was done at Audrey's house. They painted the letter P with pasta (cooked spaghetti). Hailey must have enjoyed it because she generally doesn't paint that much. They also put pennies in a piggy bank. Then Josie had her own felt pieces for the "Three Little Pigs" story which turned out to be a big hit with the kids. They also colored their pig puppets.

I'm very impressed with how many P words Josie tied in together.

P is for Peacock

For the letter P we made a Peacock out of a paper plate.

We first practiced making straight lines with the markers to make the feathers.

Hailey started to trace her hand to make the peacock more unique.

Then we used green paint on our thumbs and yellow paint on our pinkies to make the "eyes" of the peacock.

We finished by coloring the peacock's body, hair, and beak with markers.

We read "Hen Lake" by Mary Hane Auch together. It was a little too advance and long for Hailey but I like the pictures and the message. It's about a hen who wants to be a ballerina and a the new peacock the farmer just got was making fun of her and kept telling her that he can do everything better. It has a great lesson for kids (and adults) to learn.