Preschool: Q is for Queen

Preschool was at my house with week. I did Q for Queen. We after we sang our typical songs, I read "My Q book" by Jane Moncure.

Then I had them glue on the different queen pieces onto a toilet paper roll. I got this idea off of DLTK. The one that Robert is playing with is the example that I did. This craft is supposed to be for age 3 and up was a little too difficult for the kids. While I was helping Hailey and Hannah, Audrey was glue the pieces to each other and not onto the toilet paper roll. They could glue on the head, hands, and cape but the body that wraps around, the skirt (which was tough for me) and the feet were too tough.
Then they could paint their Qs with royal purple paint and put glitter glue on their crowns while I cut and glued their Qs to the pink paper. I gave them markers to put a face in the middle of the Q. This idea came from notimeforflashcards.

Since there was still 5-10 minutes left, they could dress up as Queens.

Girls are very fun to have around. I'm not sure how I could have made this letter more gender neutral.

Q is for Quilt

We started out talking about the letter Q by coloring the Itsy Bitsy Q book.

We then made a paper quilt using a template from on-line.

The center piece has Hailey's thumb prints. The circle around that has a dark purple shade of Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger stamps. Then the outer circle has a lighter shade of purple ink with Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger stamps.

Due to time restraints, I cut and paste the "quilt" together.

Then we reviewed out Itsy Bitsy Q books we made and the Q Alphabook from Baby Einstein. In the Sunday paper, there was a little article about quilts, so I cut it out to show Hailey other examples of quilts. Also, Darlene made a small quilt for Hailey's dolls, so we quickly talked about that.

Then we read a cute book called "A Quilt for Baby" by Kim Lewis. It has beautiful pictures and tells a great story through the quilt. I wish I was that creative and crafty to make a quilt like tells about us and where we live for my kids. Oh well, we all have talents in different areas. Also if your kid likes baby animals, this would also be a good book to read.