This month's Story Corner Blog Hop is about Spring, and while I have a huge number of favorite spring books I could share about (I may in the coming weeks), the book I kept coming back to is one that my daughter has recently fallen in love with: Lift-the-Flap Colors.
Because spring is simply packed full of new colors, this seemed the perfect book to keep my daughter interested in a Springy activity. We decided to make our own Lift-the-Flap book, but this time with the spring colors we see!
Note: This post contains affiliate links.
The first thing we did was take a spring walk to observe the colors we saw: brown tree trunks and branches, green grass, and many colors of newly born flowers (Strawberry's favorite part!). Then we went back inside to draw these!
Here are the tools I needed:
Our book turned out nicely. Strawberry wanted to have a page about rain. It has stormed a lot in the past few weeks! She does not like lightning and thunder, but she definitely wanted to put the colors in her book!
We ended up with four pages, besides the cover: One with "what I see on the ground", one with "what I see in the sky", another of "what I see during a storm" and a final page for Strawberry's own writing and random colors. (She loves to scribble!)
So far she loves having this as her own creation! We know the flaps in our own homemade "Lift-the-Flap Spring Colors" booklet are not as sturdy as those in the Lift-the-Flap Colors book, but we certainly enjoyed making it, and when another season comes, we can make another book!
For my preschooler, this angel kids craft was a nice alternative to snow play. The craft can also be converted into an angel Christmas ornament. The angel uses an outline of the child’s hands and one foot to form the wings and body, and a personal photo of the child’s face makes it personal. My daughter has a
Read MoreNow that my daughter (age 5) is becoming more and more aware of words and sounds and even starting to sound out consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, she was very excited to try a flower-themed word family picture sort. She loves flowers. The beautiful springtime is finally showing us tiny green buds and she cannot wait to
Read MoreMarch is Rainbow season! I love figuring out how to incorporate rainbow fun into our homeschool. For my kindergartner, who loves rainbows, I decided to make a rainbow as a learning project for remembering the ten bonds for early math skills! This fun rainbow math craft takes very little time but it creates a physical
Read MoreMy daughter was wearing her frog shirt this morning, so as I pondered what to pack in her busy box, I thought of Froggy and his adventure getting dressed! I started with our Weather Bear, of course. I also have a seasonal clothes sorting game, my ABC Clothesline, a felt doll and clothes that I’ve
Read MoreIn anticipation of the upcoming holiday, we read The Very First Thanksgiving Day. I made my preschool daughter a simple puppet template related to the traditional first Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags. Although she is young, playing with First Thanksgiving Story Puppets is a nice start to understanding the meaning of the
Read MoreThese last two weeks can be defined as thinking outside of the box. To be honest, I don’t usually think it is my style. I like to go down the checklist and get it done. But I’m finding my children are much more receptive, interested, and quick to learn when I’m more loose about finishing things,
Read More