Pine Cone Painting

My son is fond of collection pine cones.  Because I got tired of seeing them around the house, here’s what we did with them...

 

 

Now we got  lots of these colorful pine cones and I just have to look for some baskets in the thrift shop where I can pile them and display it in our kitchen window.

Homemade Moveable Alphabet

I have always wanted to own a Montessori Moveable Alphabet because my dearest little boy is so obsessed with letters.  Sadly, I haven’t seen it here and if there’s such, we might not afford it.

So I made use of our printer and a white cardstock to make my own moveable alphabet without even purchasing a pdf file online.  I printed a few copies, laminated them, cut and tada!!! We now have our very own moveable letters!

Clouds for Preschoolers (FREE nomenclature cards)

We had a week of wonderful weather so I grabbed the opportunity to discuss about clouds since we’ve been staying mostly outdoors.

I made these 3-part cards of the different type of clouds.  As you can see, I only talked about basic types like the cumulus, stratus and cirrus.  Then I added those ones which we mostly see here like contrails, fog and lenticulars.

Flowers in Spring (Part Two)

It’s so difficult to write a post these days. (been busy with personal work).  Good thing I keep pictures so it’s for me to track back the activities we did on a specific day/week. 

Here’s the conclusion of our Flower Unit which we started a few weeks ago. 

We picked flowers and identify them.  We later on used them as paint brushes.  Read about it here.

Another thing we did was make flowers out of cupcake cases.  We used do-a-dot markers to color each cases then let them dry.

While for our flowers to dry up, Mavi painted the egg carton so we can use them as plant box.

We use pipe cleaners as stems and inserted some beads on it to add a more decors to our flowers.

 

The end product.  I realize that the cases were too big for our plant box, thus... it is no longer visible LOL.  He placed this in his bedroom window and admired it for a few days.

He worked on flower nomenclature cards and puzzle as well.

 

Practical Life

Using clamp and chopstick trainer to transfer rose petals.  

 

Outdoor

Now this is exactly the reason why I always procrastinate to write any updates... we spend my free time outdoors!    It was just so timely that during the time we did our flower unit, we were blessed with a wonderful weather!

  

  

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