Thursday, March 7, 2013

ARE YOU MY MOTHER LEARNING FUN (FOOD, CRAFT & MORE) WITH LINKY





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We have picked back up with our preschool lapbooking.

My 3 year old daughter and I just got working on Are You My Mother? Lapbook. We do not do a normal lapbook per say, we have been doing a new book every 2 weeks and I keep all her work in a binder.

I printed off the Are you my Mother Sequence Game and glued the cut outs to the back of completed cereal boxes and as I read the story to my daughter she placed the story pieces in sequential order of the story.


I also uploaded Birds Adventure for free on my iPad for her to play and color the sliding bird puzzles.

I found this cute bird craft on Pinterest but I decided to modify it a bit.

Materials for the craft:
paper brown bag (ours was recycled)
1 googly eye
1 beak (I used orange card stock and cut a small triangle)
blue finger paint
glue stick & bottle glue
white paper

I drew a nest on the paper and then I ripped up the brown paper bag, she glued the pieces in the nest. Then she painted her hand and made a hand print on the next and then glued the googly eye and beak on the palm portion of the hand print - making a bird in the nest.


For dinner we had a special meal to go with our Are You My Mother theme.

Ingredients:
cooked pasta
pasta sauce (I admit it mine was jar sauce)

Meatball Ingredients:
Ground turkey
a small handful of homemade breadcrumbs
couple of sprinkles of basil
small handful of shredded mozzarella cheese
eyes - mozzarella cheese
beak - a small piece of carrot

I rolled into meatballs and cooked for 50 minutes on 425 degrees.

Once the pasta was cooked I placed on her plate shaping it into a nest like shape and added the meatballs to her plate. I stuck the carrot beak in the center of the side of the meatball and the eyes I allowed the mozzarella cheese to melt into circle eyes.



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19 comments:

  1. Thanks for hosting! I love the bird nest!

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  2. I adore that book. Great ideas to go along with it! I'm going to pin this for when my daughter can do this craft.

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  3. I remember that book from when I was a little girl, great activities to go along with it!

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  4. I love the handprint in the nest- super cute idea!

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  5. That pic looks amazingly like a bird! I never even thought that you could use a hand print for that--what a great idea!

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  6. I love how the hand print actually can be made to look like a bird in a nest!

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  7. That has to be the cutest craft ever!! Very, very clever :)

    Sofia
    From PDX with Love

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  8. We love that book. My boys would not sit still for it until they were over a year old though. Now they cannot get enough of it. what a great craft idea to tie into the story. Thanks for the idea :)

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  9. I love your nests! I will be sharing this post on Facebook and Pinterest.

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  10. We love this book. DD reads it all the time. Thanks for the lapbook download, she will have lots of fun with this!
    -Reshama
    www.stackingbooks.com

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  11. What great ideas! My kids love this book and would enjoy these activities and meal.

    Tesa @ 2 Wired 2 Tired

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  12. I'm a new follower!! You have a wonderful blog! I hope you stop by to share your crafts and ideas- http://atozebracelebrations.com/2013/03/link-party-10.html
    Nancy

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  13. So extremely adorable! I miss miss miss my kids being little! I homeschooled them up til this year. My daughter is still home but doing online for her senior year and my son went to high school so he could play ball. I miss those days so much. Enjoy this time!

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  14. I love these integrative ideas you have! Almost makes me want to teach again! =)

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  15. We just read that book. Bobo said, "Hey, your dad has this book!" I think he didn't realize there can be more than one? I may have contributed to this misconception as I often say we have to take a book back to the library so another child can borrow it.

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  16. Neat ideas! The meatball birds are cute!

    Thanks for sharing at Sharing Saturday!

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  17. I love this book! cute ideas. Thanks for linking to Share It Saturday.

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Nicole, the mama behind the Mama to 5 Blessings blog, is a mom to 5 children. Three boys: ages 8 years, 5 years, 2 years, a daughter 4 years and a new baby girl born April 19th 2013. She has been married to her husband Fritz for 11 years. Here at Mama to 5 Blessings you will find quite a variety of topics: recipes, crafts for moms and children, homeschooling, parenting, reviews and giveaways, thrifty tips and much more! Mama to 5 Blessings can also be found on Twitter @mamato3blessing, Facebook and Pinterest.