Valentine's Day and Vv Week

Welcome to a very Vv week with Valentine's Day!

Valentine Box - Decorating - The kiddos were sooooo very excited to get to their valentines, so we right to work decorating our boxes.

This kiddo was so excited to fill her box that she started putting everything she could find in there!  Ha.

 Lined up and all ready...

Valentine Box - Delivering - Oh!  The moment everyone has been waiting for...

 

Love Monster - Toddlers - The kiddos paused in their play to create their love monsters.  These monsters really like to give hugs.

Snack - Valentine's - The kiddos are invited to bring a snack to share to our party day.  One mom made these fabulous love bugs!


Vase - The kiddos painted jars today to become beautiful vases.  Here are the jars drying...

Doily Flowers - Painting - To put in our vases.  I saw the idea for these on this blog:  Here!
 
Vase and Flowers - With our vases and flowers dried, all we needed to do was to create our flowers from the doilies.

 

Kiddo:  "I am going to keep this until I'm so old!  Like 10!"

Backyard - Mud Ice - Wahoo!  The kiddos discovered that our mud had frozen.  They immediately dumped it all out and stomped on the ice.


Scraping the mud off the mud table.  Thanks kiddos!


Snow Cave - The tail end of our snow cave.

Science - Vegetables - The kiddos LOVED investigating the vegetables.  They asked if they could eat some of them ... Sure!  Of course!  Munch, munch... 
We talked about how each vegetable grew and we looked for its seeds, we pulled them apart.

Veggie Painting - Once we had finished our investigating, we pulled out the paints.  We talked about printing and brushing and other ways you could paint with veggies.  Then the kiddos got to it...

This kiddos used a carrot as a pen!

Rolling a tomato...

 Ha!  Painting with wilted lettuce.

Veggies make beautiful prints!

Volcano Scene - Youngsters - The kiddos created a lava spewing volcano!  We watched a few short videos of volcanoes erupting and oozing.

I Love You To Pieces - Family Valentine - Toddlers - As the kiddos were gluing, I was asking who each piece was for.  They caught on quickly and started telling me a family member each time.

Egg Cartons - I have a good supply of egg cartons, so I've been looking for ways to incorporate them into play.  Backyard is a great place for them!  So many treasures to fine and hold!

Climbing up the slide - such great muscle movement, strength, coordination...

Today was our volcano day! 

Baking our Volcanoes - First off we whipped up a batch of volcano cupcakes and lava pudding, then hopped back downstairs to start our day like usual.

Creating our Volcano Cupcakes - Yum!  With our cupcakes cooled, we headed up stairs to make our yummy volcanoes.

Cut off the top and munch it...Fill it with as much lava as possible, making sure to have it goo down the sides...Now eat one!  And take the rest home!

Science - Baking Soda & Vinegar Volcanoes - Smelly but oh so fun!  Nothing fancy here, just good classic fun!