Neat Father' Day Craft Idea {Salt Dough fun}!!

With Father's quickly approaching, your kids may need a good, last-minute gift to make for Dad. Here is a really cute salt dough idea we found here.

We love making all sorts of play dough, so this was a hit with our girls. I had to help them with placing the rocks in place to spell Dad Rocks, but it was an easy craft to do!

We also plan on completing an interview about Dad. I cannot wait to hear how the girls will answer the questions from Simply Montessori!  We plan to print it off and frame it for Father's Day!

We will go to our traditional Father' Day Brunch and eat way too much! LOL. We have some more surprises in store, but we are going to save those just in case Daddy is reading the blog today:-)

What special ways will you celebrate Father's Day this year? Sending many blessings to all of the wonderful Fathers out there!!!

Blessings,

Aria:)

Letter C is for....

This week, we are studying the letter Cc and having a lot of fun doing it!! Some of our main focus is learning about the Water Cycle and Clouds. We are eating a lot of fun foods that start with C-cantaloupe, clementines, cauliflower, chicken, carrots, 

cucumbers, circle-shaped sandwiches, and cheese!

We had a great playdate/homeschool day with some of our closest friends! The girls always love spending time with their "little brother" and I love the friendships we are all developing!

We chose to "create" some salt dough shapes with our friends. 

They had a lot of fun and made a fun mess, lol.

 Baby M thought the dough was VERY tasty;-)

Snack time!

It was a GORGEOUS fall day, so we had to take a walk and go to our neighborhood's creek. The kids love "collecting" leaves.

 "Compassion" is one of the godly Character Traits we are teaching our girls-along with caring--- I love how much they love each other!

Continuing in our Letter C lessons, we studied the Water Cycle and how clouds work.

Here are the books we are studying this week.

 

We went for another wonderful walk and looked for clouds in the sky. We had a fun time popping popcorn and looking out the window at the sky. We talked about the different shapes the popcorn made and looked for different shapes in the clouds. It was a pretty clear day, so not many clouds out like usual here.

Since we had the popcorn already, we included it into our "craft" for the day.

 Em also had lots of fun scooping out her "clouds".

Here are the girls studying our Letter C drawer from our Alphabet Box.  Some of the items in them are, chairs, card, crayon, cotton, caterpillar, cans, car, cow and more.

 It was so fun seeing Em say "Hey Diddle Diddle" with the wooden cow and have him jump over the moon chair-it was so cute! We are learning that nursery rhyme this week.

The girls also "created" bead bracelets!

Stay tuned for more Letter C activities and more on the Water Cycle.

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S is for Salt-Our Lessons and Fun with Salt!

To continue our Letter Ss studies this week, we had a lot of fun with salt. One of my friends named Lauren, gave me the perfect recipe for Salt Dough. It was so simple to make and the girls really had a ton of fun through the entire process of mixing it, molding it and painting it!!

To make the salt dough combine 1.5 cups of plain flour, 1/2 cup of salt,

1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and 2/3 cup of water.

Model the dough into whatever figures you want and then slow bake in the oven at 120 C (that's about 240 F) until hardened and then paint and decorate.

Here are the girls making their salt dough. 

After playing with the dough, they wanted to make cut-out shapes.

Here they are ready for the oven!

Elle and Em both thoroughly enjoyed decorating their pieces of art!

Em made a heart-shaped piece and we put it on a string for a necklace (Elle had previously made one). Em was SO INCREDIBLY proud of her necklace!!! She LOVES this necklace. She just totally lights up showing it off and couldn't wait to show Daddy when he got home!

For real--Em seriously walked around ALL day with this thing and barely would part with it to take a nap! She had it on her step stool in her room and couldn't barely sleep, lol! I am so proud of her work and how much she is enjoying her Tot Schooling at home!!

We also took some time studying our letter Ss drawer from our Alphabet Box.

We really have a lot of fun things in here----skateboard, shoes, sticker, snail, stamp, squash, spider, shells etc. The girls really love picking out the items and trying to sound out the spelling of each. I would highly recommend making this box with your children!! *even if you do not homeschool officially, it is still a really fun and educational activity!!

We also did another science experiment with making an egg float in a glass of water by adding salt to it. We had the girls predict if it would sink or float prior to placing the egg in the water. Em actually guessed that it would sink correctly!! 

At first, I used Kosher salt, but that didn't work---oops;) LOL. Got it right the second time with regular salt. 

We also made a quick letter S Sailor from DLTK's craft site. We used a lot of shiny and sparkly things to keep in our letter S mindset.

And, the last part of our Salt fun was a sensory tray I  made with Kosher salt. The girls kept saying it was like snow and wanted to play in it so much! It was a fun and inexpensive sensory/tactile lesson without much work or fuss! 

So, so much fun!!

And, one last S-word---SMILE!!
Just because Ce Ce makes us smile everyday;-) You usually won't spot her in too many of our homeschooling photos b/c I am usually wearing her in my Beco or holding her;)