Y, y, y, y…
I am dragging my feet. Can we really be this close to the end? Have we really been at this preschool thing for 26 weeks? No wonder it’s time to start cutting holes in the bottom of the footie pajamas.
So, the end of the alphabet makes ,e want to go back to the A’s and B’s and really knock them out of the park.
But, no I woke up this morning from a sugar coma and the best I could think of was a yarn yak. (Don’t ask me how that would work.) However, once the coffee kicked in the rusty gears got to turning out a couple of ideas.
First, I started thinking about the color yellow. Ducks, buses, the sun…ah, flowers. I have always loved the big heavy heads of sunflowers and their imposing stature way above any other. So I pulled up some images online of sunflowers and showed them to the boys before getting to work recreating them.
I traced a circle in the center of a paper plate and cut petals. Then, the boys painted the center with tacky glue and sprinkled sunflower seeds on top. (Peter was the only one who would taste them, and he loved them!)
Next, it was time to paint the petals yellow. I used washable tempera paint thinned with a little water.
Finally, they mixed yellow and blue paint to make the green for the stem.
Ta-da!
Just as we set the projects down to dry, a memory shot through my mind of the paper cup telephones my big brother Matt and me used to play with as kids. I figured, why not ive it a try with yarn instead of string. Well, it didn’t work, but it didn’t matter. The boys had lots of fun with it, anyway.
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