learning time: crayons and colors

Happy Thanksgiving week! We're busy packing, demo-ing, moving, and unpacking this week, so I've got some lovely little pre-fab posts up my sleeve. Hugs, kisses, be back soon!

Since it's gotten colder, we've been spending less time outside and more time inside... watching TV.

I love me some Spongebob, but not alllll the time.

{besides, his laugh really is horrible.}

SO we've started doing learning time, sort of a mini home-preschool.

The girls love it and pester me every morning until it's finally time for learning time. 

Every day I have a little theme picked out, usually based on a library book. 

Last week we talked about crayons and colors, and it was fun.

{can you imagine doing that job?}

Historically I have not been a big crafts-with-kids person, but learning time is changing that.

There are zillions of ideas online. I like this site.

The night before, I dyed some macaroni (mix 2 teaspoons rubbing alcohol with 6-8ish drops food coloring and mix with 2-3 handfuls uncooked macaroni in a ziploc bag; rinse out the bag, make another color, and let it all air dry on plastic wrap or wax paper) for a rainbow project.

I printed this coloring page at 120%, then the girls painted it with watered-down glue and stuck on the macaroni {I brought out one color at a time to avoid mass chaos}. I sort of wish I would have just divided a piece of cardstock into 6 equal rectangles; the skinny curves were hard for ms. M to navigate.

Success!

This week we're doing Thanksgiving stuff. So excited.