T...T...and more T

I did the letter T for alphabet days and I think it was quite successful.  The girls both seemed to have a great time.  Here are a couple of the things we did.

The girls got to be trains.  They danced around to the Little Red Caboose song and they held just empty diaper boxes so they could be more like a couple of boxcars.

It did not take long for the train to break apart and become two loose boxcars, but the kids didn't care.  In fact, we had to do the song again because the kids really liked being trains.

Then we talked a little about temples and the girls glued on cotton balls to their temples.  Whitney is doing a good job of pushing down the cotton balls so they would stick to the glue.  (Mom was not allowed to help with this project).

We played a matching game of matching the tails to the animals.  I printed off a bunch of animals that have distinctive tails (like the horse and the fish and the pig and the peacock) and then I just drew the tails myself.  Whitney was really good at matching.

We built towers out of blocks.  Emma managed to make hers really high before the kids knocked them over. 

Finally, we just gave Rachel and Levi their own blocks so they would stop bugging their sisters' towers.  Not that that really worked because they still tried to knock over the taller towers.  But, at least we tried.

One thing the kids really loved was the triangle treasure hunt.  I cut out a bunch of triangles and sent the kids off to find the treasure from the clues written on the triangles.  Here they find a triangle underneath the rocking chair.

And finally we painted trees.  Both girls wanted to dip their hands into red paint for the tree trunk, but then they agreed to use green for the rest of the painting.  Whitney's tree came together quite nicely.

We had two things for snack - tigers and turtles.  I cut orange pieces and the kids drizzled melted chocolate on top to make the tigers.  

Here is a turtle made with pretzels, a rolo candy, a marshmallow, and a little frosting for the eyes.  The kids both loved their tigers and their turtles, so it was a success.

I think the kids really liked T.  And Whitney has been pointing T's out to me ever since, so at least I know she is learning something.