Happy Chinese New Year!

Gung hat fat choy! Happy Chinese New Year!

What a fun and exciting holiday to learn about! The bright colors and cool animals make this a favorite holiday to celebrate at Jibber Jabber!

We started our week off by making paper lanterns! 

Sammy got to practice cutting!

Bryce loves using poof balls!

Lilly and Joseph love to squish the glue!

They came out beautiful!

Our next activity was practicing our Chinese writing! We traced out the characters to spell "gung hay fat choy!" Then all the kids practiced saying it and there were a lot of giggles!

Our next activity was making paper fans! This is always a fun time! The kids get to use their imagination and draw all kinds of animals and dragons!

This year we found a fun craft for making dragons with hand prints! Everyone loves to get theirs hands painted!

"Roar!" say the dragons!

Animal calendars were next on our list!

We got to learn what animal goes with which year and which year everyone was born!

Our next activity was water colors! We got to use them to paint a dragon mask!

It was fun to paint and even more fun to run around acting like dragons for the afternoon!

Our last activity for this theme was to make Chinese drums! 

We used the symbol for "horse" since we are in the year of the horse! 

The kids got to practice stringing beads and making music! Fun for everyone!

We loved our Chinese New Year week!

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Winter Wonderland!

Winter is here and so is the cold weather! Since we don't get snow ourselves, we decided to start off this theme by making our own!!!

First you have to squish it up to get the right texture! Everyone is excited to get their hands dirty!

Well, almost everyone!

Once it's all mixed together, the action begins!

Elijah and Sammy made it sprinkle down like snow falling from the sky!

Then they squished it, played with it, and tossed it around!

The end result, a white winter!

We love snow!

After the snow day we decided to make some snowflakes of our own! With help from Ms. Christy, we carefully twisted pipe cleaners and dipped them in "magic snow mix" to let them grow! You can see them hanging in the playroom!

Something we do get around here is rain! After making some umbrellas out of cupcake liners, we glued them down and let the rain come!

What a fun activity!

Last but not least, we made rain sticks! This was such a fun project! We started by painting them in fancy shimmer paint and then filled them with coiled up aluminum foil and rice! After securing the ends with tape, we had fancy rain sticks! Everyone was so excited with how much they sounded just like the rain!

We hope you have enjoyed our winter theme as much as we have!