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.

B is for Butterfly (Part 2)

Today we did the second half of the "B" activities. First, I pointed out that black and blue start with the letter B and she colored the paper with those markers.

Hailey loves markers and gets very messy with them. She has a black stripe down her arm (that you can't see) from popping the lid off.

Here's my happy boy being patient with mommy as she does Hailey School.
Next we talked about butterfly and beans. She would point to which color bean she wants and where she wants to put the bean and I put a drop of glue there. For the beans, I got a bag of mixed beans (15 different types of beans) and separated them into there own bags.
Here is her finished picture.

We then read "From Egg to Butterfly" by Shannon Zemlicka and "See how they grow: Butterfly" from DK which we got from the library. I wanted "Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle but it was checked out.

To finish school, I tried to do bubbles, but Hailey kept trying to grab them and was very fussy at the end.

*Side note: Hailey would not take her nap today (she cried in her crib for an hour and a half) so she was very upset when she didn't get her way.