St. Patrick's Day!

St. Patrick's Day is here! Time to learn about leprechauns and the pot of gold at the end of every rainbow!

We started our week off with some green! We made fancy St. Patrick's Day ties! We used rainbows, pots of gold, and horseshoes as decorations! It was a fun project to start off with and gave us a chance to talk while we worked about the different elements of St. Patrick's Day!

Our next activity was color sorting! We sorted through cereal to find the colors we needed to make a rainbow and added gold fish to our pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

After finding gold at the end of the rainbow, we decided to become leprechauns ourselves! We painted our beards, glued on our hats and there we were! The cutest leprechauns you've ever seen!

To get into the green spirit, we decided to finger paint green and use the fancy designs to make prints on our four leaf clover glasses! 

Last but not least, we went on a treasure hunt! We found all the gold and jewels left behind by the leprechauns!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from all of us to you!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Our favorite time of the year is here!

We must shout! We must cheer!

A very special holiday!

It's Dr. Seuss' birthday!

Happy birthday to Dr. Seuss! 

This is one of our favorite times of the year!

We get to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday with all kinds of wacky crafts!

We spend all week reading his stories and doing arts and crafts to go with them!

We started off by making a fun snack, Dr. Seuss soup! 

We poured in some red fish and some blue fish and some brown bar-ba-loots!

Mixed it all together with the colors of the rainbow!

A tasty treat!

Then, we got to do a fun fishy craft!

After reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, we got to work! 

We took plates with a hidden design and painted over them to reveal beautiful fish scales!

Then we added tails and fins and had ourselves some unique fish!

Our next fish activity was to take fancy perforated paper and wrap it around a toilet paper tube to paint a fish with funky scales!

By mixing different colors together, we made our fish look real!

After reading Yertle the Turtle, we painted our very own turtles and stacked them up high!

Look for them hanging in the playroom!

It was a fun adventure to learn and to rhyme!

Too quickly has passed our super fun time!

We miss it already, but never fear!

Dr. Seuss' birthday comes once a year!

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! Love is in the air at Jibber Jabber as we celebrate Valentine's Day with fun crafts! 

Rashaan and Zariah are working hard on their heart shaped butterflies! 

This was a fun activity to make and we got to discuss shapes and colors with!

Our next activity was getting to make extra special heart shaped cookies!

After preparing our sugar cookie dough, we cut them out into heart shapes and then cut out the centers. The kids got to take turns scooping in rainbow candies to make a beautiful "stained glass" effect!

They were adorable and delicious!

A fun project this year was getting to make heart shaped glasses!

Everyone got to color in their glasses and discuss the different patterns and shapes that were on their glasses!

Say, "Cheese!"

On Valentine's Day, all of our friends brought treats and cards to share. They got to pass them out to all of their friends and bring them home at the end of the day! 

Everyone was so excited to discuss what they got! 

We had a lot of fun this spreading the love!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Squishy slimy wormy fun!

The rain is coming down and that means it's time for worms! A favorite theme every year for the adults and the kids! We always start off with a worm hunt to dig up a few of them and use them for observation! Everyone loves the opportunity to spend some time in the mud and we love to see them squeal with delight when they find a new wormy firiend!

 Here's Lilly digging up a storm!

 Sammy is putting some dirt in a cup for the worms to live in!

 Looks like ZZ has captured the first worm!

Sammy and Joseph sifting through the mud to find worms!

She caught one, she caught one!

After our worm hunt, we like to spend some time investigating the creatures we have found!

The kids enjoy looking at them through the magnifying glass and measuring them!

Then, we pick out names for them and talk about our thoughts on how they feel, smell and look!

Preston is really concentrating on his investigation!

ZZ is picking her worm out of the pile!

A zoomed in look on our wiggly friends!

Worms are fun!

Bringing our activities indoor, we decide to make a worm necklace! We start by painting some noodles in different colors and patterns and alternating them with beads on string to make a fancy worm necklace!

Using watercolor paints to make our worms was a lot of fun!

Bryce is concentrating hard on his pattern!

Preston liked his worm without the beads! 

ZZ worked hard to match her beads to the color of her shells!

Showing off their finished products! They were so proud!

Our final project for worm week was making worm puzzles! 

We cut out worms and made them into puzzle pieces, then assigned each child a section of the worm.

When they all came together they were absolutely beautiful worms!

It was another fun week at Jibber Jabber and we all enjoyed learning about our slimy friends!