News with Naylors

1a) Kitchen Stamping Craft: Use different kitchen items to stamp on a piece of white paper. I think a whisk and spatula sound the most fun! (picture to come) 1b) Spicy Letter K with Kitchen Spices:  Draw a letter K with elmer's glue on a piece of paper Let your child shake old kitchen spices onto his/her paper, making sure the K is covered Shake the extra spices off into the trash, revealing a letter K Praise and hang on the fridge. The one pictured below was done by my 19 mo. old 2) Make Kitchen Slime: Click the link to view the best slime recipe - from little bins for little hands. My three and 19 mo. old loved playing, stretching, cutting and blowing bubbles with the slime. 3) Kitchen Pretend Play Ideas: Although you don't need to go out and buy a play kitchen, I would highly recommend one as a birthday or Christmas present. My two has loved his KidKraft Play Kitchen we got him last summer. I found ours on KSL and the kitchen came with a bunch...

1) Tissue Paper Kite from The Measured Mom: I found all our supplies at the Dollar Store! Contact Paper Tissue Paper, cut into squares Black Construction Paper Cut a piece of contact paper into a diamond.  On the sticky side of the contact paper, stick on your black cross. All your child to place the tissue paper squares.  Praise and hang on the window for light to shine through. 2) Kite File Folder  from The Measured Mom: This file folder works on color matching and size sorting. My two loves file folders, so this was perfect for him.  3) Kite Clip Cards  from The Measured Mom: We only used kite clip cards with numbers 1-8. I helped my two count the kites and he pointed to the correct number.  4) Kite Pattern Cards  from A Teaching Mommy: I put out an ABAB pattern for my two (ie. blue, green, blue, green, blue, green) and would say the colors out loud and ask him, "What comes next?" We're still working on the p...

1) Kool Aid & Magic K's: This activity was one of my two's favorites! You'll need: Kool Aid Packets (we used blue, purple and green) Water White Crayon White Card Stock Paint Brush (Optional: Use a spray bottle instead) Draw Letter K's with a white crayon on your piece of paper. The paper will still appear white. Have your child help you mix one kool aid packet with a small amount of water. We used about 2 Tbs of water per color. When we dumped the blue packet into our mixing bowl the powder was white, but when we added water it turned blue! Easton couldn't stop talking about how cool it was.  Have your child paint with the kool aid and reveal all the hidden Letter K's! 2) Amazing Kool Aid Activities: There are so many fun things to do with Kool Aid! Choose which one(s) works the best for you and your child.  Yogurt & Kool Aid Finger Paints from Fun at Home with Kids: Mix vanilla OR plain yogurt with kool aid to use as a finger p...

1) Kangaroo Craft  from Ducks n a Row: Use brown paint or pudding to paint the kangaroo and Joey. If you're in the mood to get messy, have your child dip his feet in brown paint and jump on the kangaroo to "paint" it. Draw a Letter K on the kangaroo pouch. 2) Kangaroo Hunt : Hide baby kangaroos  around the room Read Katy No Pocket from our Letter K Booklist Put an apron on your child as a pouch (I found one at the Dollar Store)  Have them jump around to find the baby joey's and put them in their pouch. 3) Kangaroo Educational Show : We watched "Jump for Joey" to go along with our Kangaroo Theme today. This is one of four educational shows that are in  Disney's Little Einsteins: Animal Expedition . These shows are a great introduction to music and arts. 4) Go to a Trampoline Park and jump like kangaroos!