The Letter R is for Rainbow, Rabbit (Easter?) and Rooster

Photo by Kriss Szkurlatowski

The Rainbow

Today is a perfect day for a Rainbow!!!

What we need:

• A paper plate (With the same plate we will also make the Easter Rainbow Rabbit!!)
• Scissors
• Art tissue paper
• Glue

First we cut the center of the plate leaving a border and a circle. We cut the border in two. Now we have a crescent or half border that we are going to use for the rainbow.

We cut the tissue paper

Glue it on the border using the colors of the Rainbow. On each end also a couple..

She was so proud!

Ready!

The Easter Rainbow Rabbit

With the circle of the plate we used before, we made this cute little Easter Rainbow Rabbit (Easter because it will be Easter next week...LOL).

We draw a rabbit on the circle. You can download the one I made and copy it.

Download Rabbit

Draw or copy the rabbit

Cut the 2 circles for the rabbit to have "hands"

Put some color on it!

Isn't it cute?

Rooster footprint

I found this Idea on this website Crafty-Crafted.com. So cute!! The only things you need for this project are:

• Blank paper
• Yellow and red paint
• Orange felt, paper, foam for beak
• An eye
• And a foot!

The materials!

Paint the foot yellow and the toes red...

She had so much fun with this activity! I had to put this picture here!

Stamp it on a blank paper. Glue on the beak and the eye (yes, I know...a little big, but that was the only one I had LOL). With your child's thumb and red paint, make the wattle! I really think this is unique! So cute!

The Letter Q is for Quilt and Quarter

Q

This week we wanted to make something with the letter Q, so we made a Quilt and a copy of a Quarter. These are very easy activities for preschoolers and fun.

For the Quilt:

• Colored paper or fabric
• Scissors
• Paper
• Glue

Just cut the papers in little pieces and paste it on a paper. This is my daughter's Quilt.

For the copy of the Quarter you just need a Quarter (any coin will do), crayons and a blank paper.

Put the coin under the paper and let your child copy the coin! It's just like MaGic!!!

The Letter P activity for Preschool

For this week the kids have been working at school on the letter P.

Every Friday they have their "Show and Tell" and the kids have to bring in an object that starts with the letter of the week.

For this Friday we made some craft!

Project Nr. 1

Pink and Purple Pig Paper Plate Puzzle Pieces*

*(or Paper Plate Pink and Purple Pig Puzzle Pieces...after we made it and showed it to my husband we talked about the order of the words and if it was correct...I am still a little confussed...hihihi....sorry if I made a mistake!)

You don't need much for this project:

1.- paper plates

2.- Pink and Purple colors/crayons/Pencils

3.- Scossors

4.- A marker

Draw a Pig with the marker and let your kid color it using Pink and Purple colors.

When ready, just cut and play!

Color!

Cut!

Play!

My daughter loved her own hand-made-puzzle!

Project Nr. 2

Popstick Puppet

Let your kid draw "somebody" on a cartboard or paper (we used the paper plates again)

This is me!

Cut it.

Glue it on a Popstick

(can you read my name?: mama!)

Some color and voila!

Mommy Popstick Puppet!

St. Patrick's Day and Green Day (Recycle - Reduce - Reuse) full of Spinach

A couple of days more and it is Spring and St Patrick's Day! There is nothing better than to see trees with Green leaves, colored flowers and the garden Greener than ever! It is then when I think about how beautiful our world is and why we don't do more to keep it that way...

We are encouraging our children to recycle. Also their school teach them how to recycle, how to stay fit eating healthy and how to fix this planet!

All this has inspired me to make a GREEN weekend! How? Well...with Spinach!

This is the Menu using a 2.5 pound spinach bag

1. Green Smoothie (non-dairy)
2. Green Pesto
3. Green Soup
4. Green Salad ....and I still have Spinach left!

For the Green Smoothie:

1.- Mix of Fruits
2.- Mango Juice (You can use any juice you like, orange, grapefruit, grape...)
3.- Spinach

Put everything in the blender, if you like a little bit of sugar, water, ice and voila! It won't taste like vegetable! I promise!

Pesto :

Spinach, Garlic, Pine nuts, Olive Oil, Parmesan Cheese and salt.

It is the first time I make pesto without Basil, and I have to tell you, it taste actually very good!

To make the pesto: Put some spinach, minced garlic, pine nuts in a mixer and pour some olive oil into it. Mix. When ready, grate some cheese on top of it and ready.

The Green Soup was a succes! My daughter loved it and loved the idea that eating the soup would make her even stonger and bigger!

It is a very simple recipe:

4 cups Spinach

2 celery sticks.

1/2 cup broth.

Small onion.

Butter.

2 cup Milk.

Parmesan Cheese.

Salt and Peper

Cook the Spinach in water with salt. When boiling, put them in blender with the same water. Add a cup of milk.

Saute the onions and celery. When they are golden, put them in the blender with:

• ½ Cup Chicken broth
• Salt and Peper
• Cup milk
• Parmesan Cheese.

Once you have blended these ingredients, mix with the Spinach and leave it to boil a little bit.

The Green Salad...Well...Green Lettuce and that's it.... .

The dinner was....uh... GREEN....but very good , healthy and nutricious!

After dinner, we read some books about Recycling, Reduce and Reuse, and St. Patricks Day. This was a very nice way to teach them how to care about the world...and how to celebrate this cultural celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

Happy St. Patrick's and keep being....GREEN!