Stars & Shapes

Today, we discussed stars!  Abbie knows the shape well, and can pick it out by name, so she enjoyed this conversation!  We started off our lesson with Circle Time, and after Abbie led with her version of the ABC's, we read a book called "Apple Pie 4th of July".  We finally made it to the library yesterday, and while books about the 4th are hard to come by, I had searched and found 2 online that were great and reserved them for us!  This was one of them!  She enjoyed the book, and was a fantastic "page turner"!!

She of course was most excited about our craft.  She always is!  Maybe when she grows up, she will be crafty too!  I got the idea for our craft from another blog, and I thought it would be fun.  I realized recently that my daughter is 2 1/2 years old, and I have NEVER let her use paint!  Other people have, so she has been exposed to the medium, but mom just doesn't like messy paint!  I decided that I would put all of that behind me, and bought Crayola WASHABLE paint!  Abbie was beyond excited when I pulled it out of the box, and told her we were going to paint!  

I had a star cookie cutter in my cabinet, so I simply took 2 paper plates and put blue paint on one, and red on the other.  I had a smock that I put on Abbie, which she felt like was so kind of magically cape!!  

 I gave her a piece of white construction paper, and let her stamp it with the cookie cutter in the 2 colors of paint!  I think it turned out really cute, and Abbie was VERY proud of it!  

Since today is the 4th of July, and we have lots of holiday plans... we may skip our lesson this afternoon.  It will all depend on how much time we have!