Stars

We threw out the worksheets again.  Maybe I should just stop making copies?  We are learning about the star shape and thought it would be fun to create a starry night.  To prepare, I traced stars onto blue construction paper.  I piled up 5 pieces of paper and stapled them together.  The next step is to cut the stars out of the paper.  Remove the staples, and now we are ready!

We have an abundance of sparkly and shiny stuff.  This was the perfect project to use them on.

"Please paint away ALL of the white."  They worked very diligently.

Have I ever mentioned how wonderful paint shirts are?  Just any old adult sized t-shirt works wonderfully!

The next step was for me to draw some glue stars for them to glue on the sparkly shiny confetti stuff.  All the while, recognizing the star shape.

Then we added some gobs of golden paint to swirl around.

Finally, what we called the "magic" part!  Add the blue star stenciled paper.  We used glue just to make sure it adhered to the paint.  We then outlined each star shape with silver glitter glue to make our starry sky pop!

My heart jumps for joy when I see these- what a good, fun mess!!  Much better than worksheets.

Starry starry night sky. ♥

I finished knitting my hat!  It is ENORMOUS.  That's ok though, I just pull the extra down the back of my neck and it looks kind of cool.  The bus driver at the bus stop complimented it.  Now I want to go pick up more yarn and learn how to crochet a beautiful one.  I need to sit down with someone so I can learn.  I have been told it is much easier than knitting.  Sign me up!  Happy Thursday!  Our hands will be covered in green paint today. Pictures tomorrow. ♥♥♥