The Exciting V

I was a little apprehensive about coming up with projects for the letter V, but the day turned out pretty well.  I think the kids even had fun and learned a little about the letter.

We started off watching a video about the letter V.  You can pretty much find any video about any letter from Sesame Street on Youtube.  Whitney thought the video was pretty funny.

I cut out a big and little letter V and then we took turns hiding them.  Each girl got to find one letter and then hide the letter they found.  Whitney needs to keep working on hiding something and then not telling me where she hid them because it was quite easy to find the letters with a little girl pointing the way.

We made a V collage.  When I started cutting pictures out of magazines, I thought it would just be a vegetable collage, but there weren't enough pictures.  So the kids got to glue on all kinds of V things - vacuum and vase and vest, etc.

Coloring the big letter V hiding in all the vegetables.

Then the girls got to stick stickers all over their vases.  Whitney wanted to be done after only two stickers, but I convinced her to put on a couple more.

I found some fake flowers at the dollar store; I wasn't sure what violets really looked like, so we went for violet colored flowers.  

Then we made a Valentines wreath by gluing hearts all over the rim of a paper plate.  The girls really like doing anything that involves glue lately.

So I am afraid I didn't get a good picture of our volcano.  I used the clay that Whitney got for her birthday, but I had never used clay before and didn't know quite how hard it was.  With a little water, the girls managed to use their fingers to dig a big hole in the middle.  And I decided that looked close enough to a volcano.  Then we did the whole baking soda/red-dyed vinegar trick to make the volcano erupt.  I wish I could have gotten a picture of all the fizzing, but it only lasted like five seconds and just didn't work.  Oh well.

For snack, we had a vegetable man.  Thanks to my mom for the idea.  We used a cucumber body, carrot arms, red pepper legs, a tomato head, and some lettuce shreds for hair.  The kids thought their little vegetable men were cool and enjoyed dipping everything into ranch dressing.  They also got to dip vanilla wafers into vanilla pudding.  So V was fun.  We are going to double up on letters for the next two weeks so we can finish the alphabet before we move.