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Watermelon Craft : I found this  Watermelon Craft  on Counting Coconuts. I cut two letter W's - one red and one green out of construction paper. Easton dipped his finger in black tempera paint and made seeds on our red W (see first picture below). When the paint dried, we glued the red W onto the top of our green W, making our letters resemble a Watermelon. Then, we glued our watermelon onto a piece of white card stock (see second picture below). Watermelon File Folder : I printed and made our  Watermelon File Folder  from Preschool Printables. To make this more fun, I hid the watermelon pieces (with seeds) around the room. Easton found a watermelon, counted the seeds and placed it on the corresponding number. Watermelon Cloud Dough : I found a tutorial for  Watermelon Moon Sand  on Growing a Jeweled Rose. However, I bought the wrong kind of sand, so this didn't work for us! I improvised and decided to try a version of Watermelon Cloud Dough....

Waterfall Painting :  I've wanted to try "drip painting" for a while, so this  Waterfall Painting Tutorial  from teaching 2 and 3 year olds was perfect. Here's what you need: White Foam Board (dollar store) Pipettes Liquid Watercolors Plastic Containers - to hold the paint Water Balloon Shapes & Water Balloon Baseball : I saw  Water Balloon Numbers  on the measured mom blog. We already did a number activity this week, so I thought water balloons would be a fun way to review shapes. I drew shapes on our driveway with sidewalk chalk and filled up our Buncho Balloons from the grocery store - there is no tying involved and you can have 100 balloons filled in a minute (see first picture below)! I would call out a shape and Easton would find and throw the balloon at the shape. We had so many balloons, we decided to play Water Balloon Baseball afterward. What a fun afternoon! Pool Noodle Water Wall : I saw a Pool Noodle Water Wall ...

Watercolor & Crayon Resist Alphabet : To review the alphabet as a whole this week, we used watercolors to go along with our W theme. I used a medicine lid and markers to outline 26 circles on a piece of large, white paper. Inside the circles, I wrote one letter of the alphabet with a white crayon. Easton painted the circles with water colors to reveal a letter of the alphabet. He identified each letter and reviewed a lot of colors as well. Use this activity with numbers, shapes, etc. Letter W Songs : I found our Letter W Songs from the measured mom blog. Our favorites were: W is for Watermelon, Wheels on the Bus, and W is for Woman (There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe). We reviewed this songs every day this week. Handprint Art (Whale) : Easton has always loved whales, so I knew he'd be excited about a whale art project! I saw a similar idea on Pinterest from mommy minutes. Window Markers : I bought our  Window Markers a while ago to use on a rainy d...