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!

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!