Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Toy Story Carnival

Little man turned 3 and we celebrated Toy Story style. For his birthday party we decided to have a little carnival with booths and all.


Booth #1 There's A Snake in My Boot
At this booth all the kids made Tie Snake. I got the idea here from Oopsey Daisy. All the snake turned out so cute and this booth became the all time favorite of the day.


Booth #2 Toy Story Coloring
We printed out a bunch of coloring pages of all the Toy Story characters and let them color in this booth. In this booth we also made paper cow boy hats. I wish I could direct you to where you could print them out too, but since it is my mom's pattern I won't be able to. Sorry! 


Booth #3 The Claw
In this booth we used a play mechanical claw for each child to get a prize out of the box. The kids thought it was great and wanted to do it again. 


Booth #4 Cowboy Racing
This booth was so much fun for everyone including the adults. We had two kid race each other at a time. Each one of the kids had to pick up a stick pony then run to where an adult helped them put on a bandana around their neck. After that they ran to the last station where they put a cowboy hat on and ran to the finish line. 
We invited all the kids to dress up if they wanted to. 


A few extra things I did to make this party prefect were:


I made a poster for each booth.




I forgot to take a picture of this before the party and the other
two ee for Hee Haw were lost at that the party. So excuse my
spelling mistake. 


I also made specialized water bottle labels. Once again I forgot to take a picture of them before handing out so here are a few pictures that give you the idea. I made the labels by combining  a bunch of ideas I found online.




The back of the label says:
Birthday Facts


Severing Size: 1 Handsome Boy


Amount per Serving           DV
Cowboy                            100%
Lovable                             100%
Cuddly                              100%
Energetic                           100%


Ingredients: family, friends and one handsome birthday boy.


As a party favor I made each one of the kids a specialized Toy Story tote bag.



Friday, July 15, 2011

U is for USA

Alison from Oopsey Daisy put together this adorable U is for USA packet. Her packets are the best! Hope you enjoy it as much I has I did.




Click on the following link to be taken to her website where you can download the packet.

http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/2011/07/u-is-for-u-s-a-mommy-school.html

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Eensy Weensy Spider

Materials:
black, white and red felt
black pipe cleaners
bag full of rice
sewing machine or fabric glue


This Eensy Weensy Spider is from  Oopsey Daisy and once again Allison has not failed us. I'm sure you have already noticed I absolutely love her blog. If you have hours to spend (trust me you will need it once you see all she has to offer) I highly recommend checking it out. You'll be amazed.

Magic Shape Painting

Materials:
1- sheet of foam
markers
 painters tape
scrap piece of construction paper 

(Click here for tutorial)
I stumbled upon this fun painting idea from No Time For Flash Cards and knew Colton would have a blast with it, hope your kids do too.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Counting Fish

Materials:
1- fish template, printed and cut out
20 ish- Pepperidge Farm Goldfish
1- sheet of plain paper
markers
glue

We have been working on counting so when I found this cute fish template from  First School I knew we needed to do it in school. As a review we also worked on F is for fish.

Today we also used goldfish to work on counting. I made a worksheet by writing 1 fish, 2 fish, etc. then an area for total of goldfish. For each number Colton counted corresponding number of fish. When all the numbers were filled up we added then all together and wrote the total number on the bottom.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Caterpillars

Materials:
1- egg carton
pompoms
pipe cleaners
paint, variety of colors
scissors
glue


These caterpillar's are from Na's Days. It's a project that takes sometime, but are too cute to pass up. 

Pink Paper Plate Pigs

Materials:
2- paper plates
1- clear water bottle cap
2- small googley eyes
pink paper
pink paint
tape
glue

(Click here for tutorial)
(You will need to scroll down a little bit to find it.)    

This paper plate pig is too cute for words. I found this idea from Pocketful of Posies. Enjoy!