F is for flowers

First off, I want to thank Matthew Guptill for coming up with some great ideas for my letter F alphabet days.  I decided that I really liked the idea of F being for flowers.  I think the kids really liked it too.

We started off by coloring the letter F.  I found a picture of a letter F with Zoe from Sesame Street holding a flower.  Whitney did a good job with her picture.  She is getting so much better at staying in the lines - when she wants to.

We also put flower stickers onto picture frames.  I picked out three different picture frames from the store and let the kids pick the one they wanted.  Whitney thought putting the stickers on was pretty cool.  Although it was Emma that had to cover her entire frame with stickers before she could be done.  There was not any space left for any more stickers.  I printed out pictures of the kids to put into their frames too.

Here is Whitney's one all decorated.  I thought it turned out pretty good.

Then we planted flowers into pots.  Each kid got their own pot and I put some potting soil into a bowl on the table and gave each kid a spoon.  There was a lot of flying dirt everywhere but the kids really liked being able to put their own dirt into the pots.

Whitney is waiting for a turn to get another heaping spoonful of dirt for her pot.  Each kid got a bulb to put into their pot and then they covered it with more dirt.  If we are very lucky, maybe we will get a flower come spring time.

Then we moved away from the flower idea and we fingerpainted footprints.  I traced the kids feet and then we let the kids fingerpaint.  Whitney didn't want to get too messy I guess because she only used like three fingers for the paint and managed to keep herself as clean as possible.

And for snack we had fish crackers and fruit snacks and fruit cups.  It was a really fun alphabet days.