Dinosaurs Galore!

It's dinosaur week here at Jibber Jabber and the kids are digging into some crazy activities! We have had a lot of fun learning about the different types of dinosars! We have talked about the Tyrannosaurus Rex's small arms, the Pterodactyl's wings and even the spikes on the Stegosaurus! To
get the kids in the dinsaur mood, we've worked on some really cool crafts!

We started off by making some handprint volcanoes! The kids painted their fists and smashed all over the paper making the volcano and then painted their hands bright red to make lava! We had a lot of messy fun and everyone screamed for more paint to make their explosion bigger! We got to talking about dinosaurs that may have lived near volcanoes!

We went on later in the week to a much messier project of painting our own Pterodactyl wings! This was a fun project for everyone as they mixed colors around and we made Pterodactyl sounds!  We had a great time flapping our Pterodactyl wings around outside!

We've learned a lot about dinosaurs this week and are looking forward to the rest of our dinosaur theme! We're going to have a roaring good time!

We're Coming Back to Earth!

Jibber Jabber has come back to Earth! Last week we wrapped up space week with some really awesome projects! We decided to come back in style by making our own astronaut helmets!

The kids had a fun time with this project as they learned why astronauts wear helmets! We talked about gravity and how astronauts look when they walk around in outer space! To complete the look, we decided to make jet packs! We made a great big glitter mess and everyone had a great time running around like astronauts!

Outer space was a lot of fun! The kids really enjoyed "flying" past the aliens on the swings!

Last but not least, we'll wrap up this week with some fun pictures of playing with cornstarch goo in the backyard! This was a great activity that everyone took part in!

When mixed with water, cornstarch looks just like a dough, but when you pick it up it turns into GOO! Everyone had so much fun squishing it in their fingers, burying their hands and watching it "melt" from up high!

Everybody say "Goo!"

3...2...1...LIFTOFF!

This week at Jibber Jabber we have been learning all about outer space! The kids have been having a fun time learning all about the planets, astronauts and rockets!

We started our week with outer space paintings! Using special alien paint, we painted tin foil and drew fun designs! We talked about what aliens might look like and even learned to speak alien!

Later in the week, we made alien masks! We danced around the playroom making funny alien sounds!

Along with all of our alien fun we painted planets! Each of the kids got to paint a few planets and we hung them up to make our solar system! Look for it hanging in the playroom!

We have had a lot of fun learning about outer space! We have also enjoyed reading books like "Where the Wild Things Are", "Green Eggs and Ham", and "Goldilocks and the Three Bears!" It's been another awesome week at Jibber Jabber!

Aloha from Jibber Jabber

Last week, we celebrated back to school and luau week! It was a very busy, exciting week for all of our school age friends as they got ready for their first day of school!

We had a fun time with our luau theme! We had hula hoops, beach balls, and luau crafts! The kids had an awesome time making their beautiful leis and wearing them proudly around the house!

Later in the week, we had a fun time sponge painting Hawaiin paper dolls! Landon decided to give his doll "dolphin hair!" We got nice and messy during this project!

Miss Sarah helped our friends make shell bracelets! Although they were difficult, they did not give up and they had the coolest bracelets to wear all day!

We had another exciting week at Jibber Jabber making cool luau crafts and getting messy! Aloha!

Lets build something together...

Recently we had some construction going on here at Jibber Jabber as we added a new living room to the house. It was very exciting seeing all of the construction guys with their BobCat and the crane and cement mixer. The kids just had to try it out in their own way :)
We had a great hammering activity that was intended for a day and ended up taking over a week. They loved it! They just hammered and pulled out the golf tees that we used as nails and started again. We let them go with this until the  Styrofoam board was falling apart. Look how cute they are with their hard hats and hammers :)

We brought in some miniature shovels in different sizes and styles for the kids to dig in our "digging area". We buried some random objects in the yard and let them so that the kids could dig for treasure. They had a ball!

We broke out the tractors, a fork lift and a dump truck to create cool tracks in our paintings. With sound effects and big tractor scoops of paint we made some very cool pictures :)

We built our own marshmallow creations. There were towers and robots and fariswheels. The best imaginations ever play here! I was so proud of all of the different things the kids created. They worked so hard and everyone had great stories to go along with what they made.

We read the story of the three little pigs. Then everyone worked together and we built a brick house (a cardboard box house covered in paper bricks). The kids took turns playing inside as pig and outside of the house as the big bad wolf trying to blow the house down.

Next we built stick houses out of popsicle sticks on construction paper. The kids had so much fun talking about the different features of each others houses. Some had chimneys some had windows or extra doors. It was really fun to see what they came up with and how much they understood about what makes a house. This has really been a fun subject for them to explore! Can't wait to see what they come up with next week...

Sorry for the delay :)

Lillian (Lilly) Kelley Larson, born April 23, 2012

Sorry I haven't been able to update for a while. As most of you probably know I had a new baby, Lilly, and I have been super busy! But I will try to do better and keep you updated :)

Easter Maddness!

We had so much fun this Easter! We made bunny ears and taught the kids to hop around like bunny rabbits :) We dyed Easter Eggs that the kids got to take home in the Easter baskets that they made themselves. Then on Friday the Easter Bunny himself came and hid Easter Eggs (the plastic kind) for all of the kids to hunt for in the backyard.