Three Year Olds

Here is my three-year-old at my daughter's middle school open house.

Any guesses as to the logic behind his outfit??? I'll give you a hint. The first shirt is a black superman t-shirt. That is covered by a superman pajama shirt. Next comes the vest with a nice orange tie to round it out (the plaid shorts? those are just for fun). .............Still haven't got it yet? He was dressed as Clark Kent! (you know because I never let him go places dresseed as Superman)

This also happens to be the day he discovered how to use "air quotes" correctly.

Also, he filled his potty chair bowl with potato chips.

It's been quite the day!

Song Birds

For today's bird project I printed some bird coloring pages from off the internet. My favorite site is:

http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html

My three-year-old and I used water colors to color the birds (but markers or anything else would work just as well)

When they were dry, I took a blank piece of printer paper and cut out each bird with a "backing" of printer paper. (it's easier if you use a cartoony bird coloring page as opposed to a realistic one - they're easier to cut out!)

Next we added half of a cotton ball to the middle of each bird. Then we glued around the edges and let them dry. Once they were done we taped string to each one and hung them from the ceiling, to make our birds fly!!



For the Birds

This week we are studying birds!!

Of couse, we had to make pincone bird feeders. All of my kids got excited about this one, so we have lots of pinecone bird feeders haning in our trees right now. (It always suprises me what the older kids think is cool!). In case you've never heard of them, you just take a pinecone, smear some peanut butter on it, and then roll it in bird seed:

Just a few tips, if you'd like to try it at home:

Buy bird seed at Walmart, Target, or your grocery store. I bought mine at the pet store and paid ten dollars for it. That afternoon I saw the same size bag of bird seed for three dollars at the grocery store!!

Hang the bird feeders high enough in the tree that only the birds can get them. We have A LOT of stray cats around our home, and unless you'd like to try to explain the whole "circle of life" concept, it's best not to invite the birds within jumping distance of the cats!

And.... it's best to use a small container of peanut butter, because of course no matter what you do bird seed will get in it. (And if you're not quick enough your three-year-old will pour Pine-Sol into it and that will be the end of using it for bird feeders too!)