Paint, Pudding, and Paper dolls

Our latest Jake preschool activities-

Paint bag writing - we did some shape practice... Jake can only seem to draw a circle, so I drew shapes and then asked Jake to find the square, or the diamond, etc, and have him 'color it in'. He used a q-tip, but then also discovered his fingers worked alright too.

Pudding writing... this ended up being EXTRA messy, but fun! All I had was vanilla pudding in my pantry (what a shame!), and I thought that chocolate would be best, since the writing would show up better, and chocolate is just all around more delicious. So, I added a ton of chocolate syrup to the pudding mix before it had set... this ended up making it much runnier than it should - but oh my, it was tasty! Kind of like a melted frosty! :) It still worked alright for some more shape practice - at first, Jake didn't want to practice shapes and just wanted to eat it (can you blame him?)... so I had to get sneaky - I would pull the platter away from him, draw a shape in the pudding, and tell him he had to tell me the shape before he could eat some - so he would say "triangle!" and I would slide the platter to him and he would say "I eat triangle!" and then he would take a big glob of pudding to his mouth. This was an all around good time! :)

Mickey Mouse colors- we made a stop at Home Depot to snatch up Disney paint samples. Jake LOVES Mickey Mouse, so he was in love with these colored Mickey cards! We practiced naming and finding colors, then we tied them together for a little color book. Jake kept quizzing me throughout the day- "what color is this mommy?" and I'd tell him and then he'd say "good job!". haha. And also, notice Jake's black eye? He bonked his nose a few days ago, and every day his eye is a new color - today it is a lovely yellow.


We made paper dolls after school one day this past week - the girls really enjoyed it. I didn't get a picture of Emma's but she really took her time and colored pretty dresses and faces on all of them. I made Jake some paper soccer balls instead of dolls. He colored them and they are currently taped to his bedroom door. :)