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Letter V Craft : I printed a Letter V Printout  from Mom Junction and colored in all the dots with a white crayon. After Easton identified the letter we got to work! We used these  Homemade, Edible Finger Paints  from Repeat Crafter Me. (picture to come!) Veterinarian Pretend Play : This was another favorite activity of the week! Easton loves pretend play, so I knew this would be a lot of fun. After reading our vet books, he wanted to act out "Sally goes to the Vet". His favorite part was putting bandaids on his stuffed animals. We used this darling  animal checklist and badge  (I helped Easton fill them out) from play dough to plato. We used our doctor coat and doctor set that we got for Christmas.  The doctor glasses were killing me! Here's an inexpensive doctor set from Amazon that comes with the coat and hospital kit.

Volcano Video : I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, but these were the best ones I could find:  Geography Lesson: What is a Volcano?  from Youtube. and  Volcanoes 101  from National Geographic. Volcano Craft : I love how this craft turned out! We used the Letter V for the initial lava coming out, and then glued on "smooshed" squares of tissue paper for the hot lava and cotton balls for the  clouds.  I found a  similar Volcano Craft  using crayons for the lava on Ashley Aymara. Volcano Sensory Bin : This was the highlight of our week! We used a cookie sheet for the base. Easton and his friends help mold old play dough around a large spice jar to make our volcano. They stuck play trees around the volcano, and the fun began! I filled the jar with baking soda and each child took a turn dumping a cup filled with vinegar and red food coloring into the volcano. They loved watching the reaction. We had so many turns we ran out of sup...

Vegetable Craft : I found this idea on the   Letter V Crafts List   from the measured mom blog. I printed vegetables from a google "vegetable collage", cut them out and Easton helped glue them onto our Letter V. Some of the vegetables he hadn't heard of yet (whoops!), so he learned some new words today. Vegetable Printing : This idea is also from the   Letter V Crafts List   on the measured mom blog. I bought a few vegetables from the store with vegetable printing in mind. We used an orange pepper, broccoli, carrot, cauliflower and celery. Vegetable Pretend Play : I wrote numbers 1-10 on office stickers and stuck them on our set of  Ikea Vegetables . We pretended to be at the grocery store and Easton was the cashier. I found some vegetables to buy and had him identify the numbers and push them on our play cash register . This activity evolved into buying books and all sorts of things. It was a great number review!

Vegetable Letter Garden : This was a fun way to review the alphabet as a whole! I had dirt (which I found at the Dollar Store) left over from our underground sensory bin last week. Click the link for a detailed  tutorial  from no time for flashcards . Here's what you need for this activity: Plastic Container (I bought ours at Walmart) Dirt  Orange Pool Noodle (dollar store) - Carrot Body Green Ribbon (dollar store) - Carrot Leaves Permanent Marker - to write the letters  Toy Garden Set Letter V Songs : Wow, we loved all of the  Letter V Songs  from the measured mom blog! Easton learned about volcanoes and veterinarians today through song. He's been talking about volcanoes all day reminding me that lava is hot. Letter V Handprint Art (Vulture) : Easton learned about vultures today through craft! Handprint crafts will never get old to me, I love them. I'm saving all of his Alphabet Handprint Art to put in a book at the end of our Lette...