Wednesday Activity

For this weeks Wednesday activity, we made "All About Me" books.

We started by making the inside pages of the book. Each child made a collage of their favorite foods using the weekly ads. They then colored a picture of their favorite character. For the third page, I made up a little sheet on the computer with things like name, age, favorite color, favorite story, etc. and blanks to fill in besides each one. I then asked the kids for their answers and filled in the information.

To make the book cover we took manila file folders, decorated the front and glued a picture of each kid on their respective folder, put a title on it, and stapled it into a book.

Little Man's collage of his favorite food. I just gave them the ads from this week's paper. Little Man cut most of his own pictures, I cut all of Kiwi's and I helped our three year old niece Ellie ( who was over for a couple of hours Wednesday morning) with some of them while she did some cutting herself. Ellie is sandwiched right between my kids age wise and it was interesting to see the different in all the kids developmentally. Little Man and Ellie enjoyed making the collages, but Kiwi was too interested until the glue came out.

Little Man wanted to add words to the Lightening McQueen picture that he colored to make it a "real" book. He told me what to write.

Kiwi's picture of her Teddy Bear. There are literally thousands of free coloring pages on theInternet to print off. Kiwi wanted a Teddy Bear, Little Man Lightening, and Ellie wanted the "Happy Feet" penguin and I found and printed all of them in minutes.

This project actually spilled into Thursday which is when we decorated the covers of the "books" and stapled everything together. Little Man even chose his book for me to read to him later that day. Again it was nothing fancy, but the kids (especially Little Man) really enjoyed it and I enjoyed knowing that Wednesday morning was set aside to do a special project with them without worrying about all the other distractions (sometimes I feel like I spend too much of my time with the kids trying to get other things done at the same time).