Sink or Float

I bought a $1 book from the dollar bins at Target and it was about Reptiles - Snakes, crocs & lizards. As we were reading this book there was a section about Basalik lizards and how they can run on water. Julian thought that was a hoot and asked to see videos of how they do that (which I love that he asked that on his own). While we were watching the video he came up with the idea of testing things that would sink or float.

It became a whirlwind and before I knew HE had set up everything for this experiment (except the water and the labels).

I asked him to predict what would float and what would sink. Then after we talked about why certain things float / sink.

Candy Cane Lane

We went to a playdate called "Candy Cane Lane". It started off with the host reading a book called J is for Jesus (you can find it here on Amazon, I highly recommend it).

Then, the kids made a candy cane craft and had some cookies (candy cane of course).

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We read this childhood favorite and also watched an animated version of it on YouTube. The kids loved the animated version so much that they watch it over and over.

After we read and watched the book, we made our own very hungry caterpillar's for our very hungry cater-kids!! They had fun getting to their hands covered in frosting and using the pretzels for feet.

Kk Playdate

This is the Kk playdate that we hosted. We had kids ages 4 and under and we did everything with an emphasis on the letter Kk.

Here I am pointing out different words that start with K.

Here we are reading Won't you be my Kissaroo?





I'm trying to get Julian to eat a Kiwi.
The thing is he likes them, but of course, he wanted to be "cute" for the camera.

We made K's out of plumping pipe.

It a great inexpensive way to create #'s, letters and shapes.

Miss B is all smiles.

This was a great game of Joey, Joey, Kangaroo (Duck, duck, goose). After this the kids climbed into pillow cases and jumped around like kangaroos.






We also painted the Letter Kk with Koolaid. This was really fun for the kiddos.