Jelly Bottle Games

We have a few pb&j lovers over here, so we ended up with a few jelly bottles laying around!  :)  After looking at the slotted top, I immediately thought popsicle sticks!!  :)  The ideas are endless, but I decided to make a simple little matching game for colors & numbers!!

 Using cardstock, I cut out squares of each color & wrote the color word on one side. . .

 then wrote numbers, number words & counting dots on the back!

 Used markers to color one side of some (obviously a random amount) popsicle sticks. . .





then wrote numbers & counting dots on the back!!








See - - perfect slotted top for popsicle sticks or tongue depressors!!  (or small strips of paper, etc!!)








Find the stick that matches the card & put it inside the bottle!!  :)  Match numbers, then turn cards & sticks over to match colors!!





 

I hot glued a clothes pin to the bottle - - this serves 2 purposes: 1. to hold the card that you're matching 2. to hold the bag of cards when you're done!!  (All the sticks fit inside the bottle!!  :)

Straw Beads

Anyone else out there have a ton of those plastic kid straws you get from restaurants (or various holidays)??  Well, we do!  Or, I should say DID!!  :)  I cut them up & turned them into "beads"!!  :)  And - the little centerpieces of the straws (pumpkins, hearts, etc.) can be used to sort, string, count, etc!!  Talk about recycling!!  :) We haven't used them yet, but Olivia gets them out all the time & wants to "make" something!!  Guess I better get on the ball!!

Animal Homes

This week, we finished up the Houses & Homes theme, and were able to do a few fun things with it!! We checked out some "D" books for our letter of the week, and also got a few animal habitat books (that was the focus this week)! For an easy art project, we made a bat cave!! This could obviously be turned into ANY type of cave, but Hunter LOVES Batman, so he was so excited for this!! We used an empty sandwich baggie box & it was perfect for a cave! We cut out some "rocks" out of construction paper, glued them on, glued a piece of string onto the back of one of the bats (we used some Batman confetti that we have for his upcoming Batman birthday party - they were perfect) & then glued another one on top of the string (so they would be 2-sided)! We taped the bats to the ceiling of the cave - and taaaa-daaah! :)

**If you notice the little brown paper at the bottom of the cave - - he wanted to make sure the bats had food, so he drew some bugs & fruit!!! :)