more new activities.....and art, too!

Magnetic Chip Sensory Tub

Peaceful Clouds!

Ashlyn and Nate are so proud of their Dangly Creatures!

Folding Cloths Activity

Sensory Balloons, filled with Pony Beads, Kosher Salt, Flour, Glass Beads, and Corn Kernels.

Nate checks out the Sensory Balloons.

sometimes you've got to be silly!

what's on our shelves this week? New Fall Activities!

Transferring

Matching Shapes

Acorn Sorting

Matching Leafs

Counting Acorns

Bean Sorting

Leaf Silhouettes

Toothpicks to Shaker

More Pirate Activities (aka: pirates love crafts, aye, they do)

Paper Plate Pirates (thanks to Tara for the idea!)

Sadie, Brenna, and Ashlyn decorate their chalkboard flags

Scowling Pirate handprints

Talk Like A Pirate Day activities and crafts!

Our pirate ship is very very small now.  We wonder how big it will grow!

Sadie and Aubrey invented a Pirate game with the globe called "Pirate Ball"

Checking out all the loot

Pirate hats and cutlasses

Aubrey says "I found gold coins!"

Sadie searches for pieces of eight

Pirate crews, very fierce

Painting Pirate Picture frames

Pirates were big on getting their pictures taken!

Pirate Day Walk (or...attempting to see if I can get my photos from my cell to Facebook to the blog!)

We found a fabulous Pirate Ship on our Treasure Walk!  We were beseagued by "Seals, Crabs, and Whales, and Sharks!  And oh lord!  Brusselly sprouts!  We're headed for brusselly sprouts!"  If it's one thing Pirates hated, it was 'brusselley sprouts'.

Captains Sadie and Aubrey take time away from a busy sailing day to have a bit of a sit in the fairy ring we found!  We also collected more acorns!  Now that's treasure worthy of a Pirate Captain!

Tomorrow it be TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, arr arr arrrrrrr!

As ye all be knowing, September 19 be that most glorious of all celebrated days, a little something something I likes ta be calling "Talk Like A Pirate Day"!  'Tis a day when landlubbers, sprogs (aka: the kiddies), and the like can dress up in their pirate finest, sail the Seven Seas in search of treasure, and bellow "Aye Aye Cap't!", "Shiver me timbers!", and "Arrr, it be a fine day to be a pirate, eh, maties?!?!?" at the top of their lungs!

But at Puddles and Mud Childcare, is just one day of Pirate Joy enough?  Nay!  Belay that scurvy thought, my fellow sailors!  It be not!!  We be hoisting the flag on the mainsail for a week long affair!!  
 
We be having several Pirate Activities planned, Pirate Crafts galore, even Pirate Snacks (pirates be hungry little things, don't ya know)!  Also, we be having a special treat "Dora and the Pirate Pigs" DVD to watch!

Searching for gold doubloons!

Pirates Tunes!

Stamping the Jolly Roger

Pirate Sorting

Game 'o the Sea

Matching Pairs on one side/Pirate Puzzle on the other

Pirate Flags

Pirate Magnetic Book

Pirate Adventures

We be growing our own Pirate Ship

Pirate Sequencing and Sensory Tub