Letter B

Here are the activities we did during B week!!

• Baked brownies and brought them to our pastor's (Brian) house and gave them to Brian, Ben and Brad.
• Gave a book to our friend Brody for his first birthday!
• Took a "field trip" to the bank to exchange the coins in his piggy bank for "bills" and then went to the library for some books, many of which started with B.
• Colored on one of the Diapers.com big boxes with markers (this is all we did with this idea, but if your kids are a little older you could put things in the box that start with B!  You could also "bury" something in the box and talk about that vocabulary word!)
• Make bubble art - mix 1/4 cup of dish detergent, 1/2 cup water, 1 teaspoon of sugar and divide the mixture into small cups or bowls.  Put a different color of food coloring into each cup.  Either use bubble wands or make your own (just use pipe cleaner and bend the ends to make a circle and secure it).  Then get out some white paper and blow bubbles, letting them pop on the paper! (I got this idea from http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/bubbles/bubble_art.htm where there are lots of other bubble ideas!)
• Blow bubbles!  If you want to make your own or do something a little different, make the bubble solution from above and put it in a container (like a yogurt container) with a lid.  Punch 2 holes in the lid on either end and stick a straw through one side.  Have your child blow on the straw to make the bubbles come out the other hole!  Make sure they don't suck on the straw, like my son did.  Although he did have a nice bubble come out of his mouth when he tried to talk!!
• Grab all the balls you have in your house and sort them - size, texture, bounciness, etc.
• Make a bug - take a styrofoam ball and paint it.  when it's dry, give it some eyes (you can use googly eyes if you want) and a mouth and use pipe cleaner for the legs.

Here's our bubble art: