June 10: Caterpillers and Fish

Ty announced that he wanted to make TWO  projects today...so that's what we did.  He was in the mood to paint!!!  We began by making these great fish!  I found the idea HERE at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.  Tysen started out by using a paint brush but decided it would just be easier to use his hands to put the paint on the back of the plat.  He enjoyed smearing the colors together!  We let the plates dry for a while, and then I cut out a wedge for the mouth and then stapled the cut out wedge to the other side of the plate to create a tail.  Super cute and super simple!  Ty added a googly eye and they were finished! 

And then it was time for the Cup Caterpillars from I Can Teach My Child.  When I showed Ty what we were going to do he told me he wanted to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar (from Eric Carle).  When I asked him what The Very Hungry Caterpillar looked like he knew that it had a red head and a green body, so that's what he did!  We used small Styrofoam cups to paint the circles and then a fork to paint the grass.  But Ty wasn't finished painting yet...he decided to paint each of the green circles of the caterpillars, and he did a really nice job!  You can see in the pictures how focused Tysen was...he was so serious about both projects.  I wondered aloud what else we could make with circles.  I decided to try a flower, and Ty thought I should make a sunflower...then he tried one, too!

Two completed caterpillars.

My sunflower.

Ty's sunflower.

And I just had to include this last picture of Brielle doing her newest "trick".  She'll just stop whatever she's doing and "stand" on her head.  Then giggle!  I see yoga in her future. :)