Letter I- Ice Cream Preschool Ideas

Ice cream pack from 2 teaching Mommas- I cut out and laminated 4 sets of the dice game to build an ice cream cone. We took turns rolling the dice and taped huge stacks of ice cream on the white board, then compared the different cone graphs and talked about least,most etc.

Musical Islands game- played just like musical chairs, but with carpet squares, pretending they were islands we jumped onto when the music stopped

I balance beam made out of masking tape:

Balloon ice cream cone- Balloon decorated with paper sprinkles (small strips of paper or hole punches glued on or stickers, red pom pom on top for cherry). Cardstock stapled to make a cone to put it in. You can play a game where you toss the balloon up and try to catch it with the cardstock.

 

For snack we had Ice Cream- of course!

For Journal we colored an ice cream cone the color of our favorite flavor.

For tracing and letters they traced I, completed a pattern with Ice cream and cookies pattern, and matched upper and lower case letters on ice cream cones (from the 2 teaching Mommies link above).

It was a fun preschool and I think the kids are starting to expect sweets everytime they’re at my house. Hooray for Ice Cream!

Halloween Monster House Party…at the Daleys!

 

We had a great Halloween this year. The festivities started with me sewing Sophia’s rainbow pillow costume and Natalie’s modest mermaid gown (shown above with puff sleeves and seaweed boa).

Our cousins came to the ward party. Here’s dragon and cute flower Evie…

 

 

The beehives ran the spider web toss during the halloween carnival. We sewed bean bags on Wednesday night then hung a spiderweb the day of the party.

On Halloween we had a few friends over. I had signed up to host a party through houseparty.com, so I got some free goodies to hand out (mainly trick or treating bags and mini flashlights.

I hung some simple spider and bat silhouettes…

I made a simple trick or treat banner, and hung halloween pictures from years past on our memo board. Then added spider webs to our fancy candle holders.

The piano got some spider webs too, and we propped up the skeleton that’s literally on it’s last leg.

I made some Halloween blocks out of scrapwood and vinyl. I’ve had these on my list of things to do for a while, but never got around to it until my friend Sarah wanted to work on some of her own with me. It was fun to sit and talk and make things for a few afternoons, I’m thinking I need to have craft dates more often!

Last but not least I hung a spider web between our balcony railings and added webbing and a paper spider Sophia brought home from school.

 

 

(Imagine party pics here that I was too busy to take…)

 

We served Halloweenies, ham and cheese calzone strips, Pumpkin Soup with Jalapeno Pesto, breadsticks, spinach dip and a big salad. For dessert we had red velvet cake eyeballs, black cat cookies (chocolate cookies shaped like cats) and Knock em Naked Cake (chocolate cake, pudding, coolwhip and toffee bits) . We went trick or treating and came back for dessert and some Halloween pictionary/charades.

 

Fun times. I love having a houseful of people. I need to be a better time manager so I can make it happen more often!