To celebrate spring, and mothers day we did a week on flowers and a week on butterflies.
we have not yet finished all our butterfly activities as we are still waiting the butterflies arrivals!
We have 9 little teeny tiny catepillars above that the children have been watching grow and change!
Here is the flower shop, a cash register and flowers, great fun in dramatic play!
Blake selling his sister some flowers. There was also aprons and shopping bags included, though they were not really used.
the children added packets of flower seeds to their shop that they got from a birthday party.
here are the cocoons! this process is taking alot longer then i thought it would! we are still waiting for the butterflies to emerge.
We made placemats out of dye cuts and fancy paper, then i laminated them.
our mothers day craft was cards and cup cake wrapper flowers. I did think that there would be a little more decorating of the wrappers, but they were happy with what they created!
Our flower science experiment. We put the flowers in colored water, the baby breathe did not change, but the roses did. The green was the quickest to change, the orange and blue took longer.
Books.
Some of the placemats. I had the children's names in dye cuts, so these are all just Kaylas! She really like this activity!
A few other things we did,
-painted butterflies and hung them from the windows.
-went on a nature walk, collected lady bugs and played with butterfly nets.
-played hide the butterflies with foam shaped butterflies.
-flowers in the water table.
-flower petal college.
I do have a couple activities planned for when our butterflies emerge to celebrate!
oh and Blake and Kayla got to end off butterfly week with a butterfly themed birthday party for Carley!
Heather had a very talented facepainter come! Kayla LOVED her facepainting, and cried when I washed it off the night.
Butterfly wings too!
