Fun in the Fall!

We have a lot of exciting crafts to share this week from Jibber Jabber! We started with a nature walk to collect acorn tops! The kids had an awesome time looking at the different colored leaves and observing the sights of Fall! Then we brought all the acorns and leaves back and made our own picture frames!

 

 

 

 

 

Our next activity was a big hit! We took paper plate halves and used q-tips dipped in paint to paint them! Some very colorful designs came out!

 

 

 

 

 

And joining us at this activity was our newest painter!

 

 

She definitely had a lot of fun!!!

 

 

We had a really fun project using paper cups to make crows! It was a really cute to watch them talk about their birdys and fly them around!

 

 

 

Lastly, we made spooky bats using egg cartons! Everyone thought they were "ooky spooky!" Look for them hanging in the playroom!

 

That's all for this week! See you at the Pumpkin Patch :)

 

Let The Leaves Fall!

This week at Jibber Jabber we have been doing a lot of fun activities about leaves! We've looked at the veins in them and talked about the colors they change to during the fall season! We have done a lot of cool leaf activities! We started out with rubbing leaves! We placed our leaves under paper and rubbed crayons across the paper to make the print of the leaf!

 

 

 

Everyone had a lot of fun observing the different patterns of different leaves! Then we moved on to a more messy activity! We mixed shaving cream and paint to make pretty leaf prints!

 

 

 

 

After we made our awesome prints, everyone had a great time mixing up all the colors and shaving cream! We decided it looked like an avocado explosion! This was a really cool activity to talk about the color changes! Last but not least, we painted with leaves! Taking different leaves from all around the backyard we dipped them in paint and made leaf prints! We had a great time experimenting with the amount of paint we used! The kids found out that a thin layer of paint made a better impression then a thick layer of paint!

 

 

 

 

 

That's all we have to share this week from Jibber Jabber! It's been an exciting transition into Fall and we are looking forward to the rest of it!

 

 

Fall Is All Around Us!

Fall is here! We are all very excited for the changing of seasons! A lot of fun crafts are getting ready to take place and we have decided to start the week with a touch of royalty! All of the kids made leaf crowns! They wore them proudly all day long and played kings and queens!

 

 

 

 

 

Don't they look adorable? It was a fun time for everyone! We also made scarecrow paper bag puppets! These cute little guys were so fun to make! Everyone especially loved gluing his hair on sticking straight out!

 

 

 

We danced with our scarecrows in the playroom singing our favorite scarecrow song, "If I Only Had A Brain," from The Wizard of Oz! It was really funny to see all of the kids checking to see if their scarecrow had a brain!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been a fun Fall week at Jibber Jabber! :)

 

 

 

 

More From Mother Goose!

This week at Jibber Jabber we have been continuing our Nursery Rhyme theme! It has been a lot of fun learning different poems and songs together! Some of our favorites are Little Bo Peep and Humpty Dumpty! Little Bo Peep brought a few very fun activities! We dressed up as sheep and pretended to be lost and we made fun foamy bubbles and let them pop to decorate our sheep!

The kids were having so much fun blowing bubbles out of the cups and watching them pop! They made the cutest sheep!

We also studied Humpty Dumpty! This was definitely a favorite! We put together Humpty Dumpty puzzles, made egg mosaics and painted our own paper plate Humpty Dumptys!
As we sang the song we discussed what Humpty Dumpty might have sat on to make him fall off the wall! We had answers like pizza, bananas, a kite, and another egg! :)

Our Humpty Dumpty puzzles were challenging but it was a very exciting moment when we put Humpty Dumpty back together again! The kids each drew a face on them! Aurora wasn't sure if we should draw a happy face or a sad face, but we decided that since he was put back together, he was probably a pretty happy guy!
 

It's been another successful week at Jibber Jabber! We're all very excited that Fall is here and are looking forward to the fun crafts to come!

Nursery Rhyme Time

Last week at Jibber Jabber we started learning about Nursery Rhymes! The kids have had a lot of fun singing classic songs like The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! One craft that everyone really enjoyed was making Itsy Bitsy Theme Cups!

These cool styrofoam cups had a string wrapped through them and a spider glued on! When you pull the string from the inside, the spider "crawls" up the side of the "water spout!" We had so much fun singing this song over and over again! We also made some really cool hand print spiders! Everyone loved the squishy feeling of having paint all over their hands!

Our next cool project was Hey Diddle Diddle Fiddles! We played our fiddles and practiced singing Hey Diddle Diddle!

After all the fun projects we did, we had to top it off with something truly awesome! So we went into Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ready to make magic! We started off by baking and decorating star shaped sugar cookies! Yummy! Then we made some super cool Twinkle Twinkle Bottles! By mixing liquid dish soap, water, glitter and star beads, we made a little sky in a bottle!

We have had such a great time learning and practicing our nursery rhymes! We read some great stories like The Three Little Pigs, Three Little Kittens, and Cinderella! It's definitely been another amazing week at Jibber Jabber!

Dinosaur days!

Our dinosaur theme has ended and with that, we have a ton of fun crafts, activities, and photos to share!

Bryce and Lilly have become good friends! Bryce likes to lay on his belly and talk to Lilly when she comes outside to play with everyone!

One of our best activities this week was definitely our fossil making and our fossil hunt! The kids had a great time kneading the fossil dough and helping their T-Rex and Stegosaurus friends walk through the dough to create footprints!



After letting them dry for a few days, the fossils were buried in the dirt and mud! Everyone grabbed a magnifying glass and we went hunting!

Everyone was super excited about this activitiy! We talked all about the different dinosaurs that might have left the marks! Some of them were even determined to be from baby dinosaurs! We definitely got dirty in dinosaur land!

Another fun project this week was our "D" is for Dinosaur project! After gluing together several pieces, they had a Brontosaurus that was shaped like the letter D! We had so much fun decorating them with polka dots, stripes, and squiggles!

Last but not least, here are some fun shots of our outdoor play during the week! Enjoy!

Sammy and Bryce decorating the house for a party!

Nick bouncing around on his zebra friend!

Payton riding in on her harley!
Look forward to next week's blog when we show off our Nursery Rhyme crafts and fun!