Ice Cream Cones - Number Sequencing

Cone 1
Cone 2
Scoop

Smelly Ice Cream Cones

So for this one, I just gave the kids some smelly markers to make scented ice cream cones! Here are the links to the cones
Cone 1
Cone 2
Bowl

Ice Cream - Playtime - Ice Cream Playdoh

I made up 3 large batches of playdoh to use for our Ice Cream Parlor! We have chocolate, vanilla, and orange sherbet!

Here's the recipe:
2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 cup salt
2 Tbsp cooking oil
1 Tbsp cream of tartar
Extras - chocolate cocoa, vanilla powder, orange extract, food coloring, koolaid packets, etc.

Mix all ingredients together in large saucepan. Cook over medium heat while stirring constantly, for just a few minutes until it comes together like mashed potatoes. Flip out onto floured surface and knead in any extras you wish! Store in air tight container for about a month.

We're gonna pull out some play ice cream cones we have, a cash register, an ice cream scoop, some plastic bowls, an apron, and some spoons, and there we have our very own ice cream parlor, with scoopable ice cream!

Ice Cream Games - Color/color word cards

These are the cards we're using for color matching (Julie) and color/color word matching (Belle) this week! Here's the link to the ice cream cone image to make some cards!
Today I had Belle do a memory game with colors and color words to make it a bit harder, but she did great!!!

We also spent A LOT of time on the computer today on different learning sites! FUN DAY!
And we spent about an hour of reading/story time this morning too! Just grabbed a big box of books from the basement and they went to town with them!!!

Ice Cream Cones - Shaving cream color (2)

Today we did our cones for our shaving cream painting project. Then, we put them together and made a "Today's Specials" sign for our ice cream parlor!

Farm Art

I got these chip board farm animals at Lakeshore in Towson, but you could use regular printer paper and print animals from the internet...

I just got together some glue, paint (brown, black, and white), a bag of feathers, googly eyes, some cotton balls, paintbrushes, and refillable bingo marker bottles (also from teacher store).

We finger painted brown on the pigs (for mud), painted glue on the sheep and added cotton balls that we pulled apart, painted glue on the chickens and added feathers, and then used the paint in the bingo marker bottles to add spots to our cows. Then we added googly eyes to all of them!

Kids Make their own Pizza Day

We invited Hannah and Joe over one day a few weeks ago for lunch and the kids each made their own mini pizza for lunch. I made dough (see my other blog) and the kids put on sauce, cheese, pepperoni, bacon, mushrooms, and onions. They had a blast!