Stepping up my game

So I have viewed about as many preschool mommy blogs as I can. After feeling like a complete failure I decided to step up my game a bit. Its a learning process, but I am starting to come up with new ideas and have found a site where starting next week I can print all sorts of fun alphabet themed activities to go with my plans for that week. This week we are learning all about the letter C and the sound it makes etc. We started the week with our usual calendar time and reading our themed book. I loved the book Mouse and the Big Cupcake. Sooo cute and Maddie loves it too. We have read it everyday wince bringing ti home from the library. Tuesday we started out with our letter recognition, spelling the word cupcake. She LOVES the clothespins and has done this one many times for Daddy Landon and anyone who will watch. We had a spur of the moment play date arrise and decided to go to a friends house for playtime and crafts that day so thats where C ended for the day.

 Bieng out of the school setting I take every opportunity to play with kids when we can. Sooo that brings us the Thursday. Busy day! Of course calendar and book on cupcakes. Try explaining to a toddler that it is cloudy outside when its one giant cloud. so we went with rainy until it started snowing=) Next we moved on to  arranging the cupcakes I printed out in to order according to size we did this a dozen or so times at her request both big to small and small to big. She's a pro. Maddie took a quick puzzle break while I prepared for the baking part of our day. She has a little boy body puzzle that she calls her Landon puzzle. She loves to take him apart and then reassemble, not sure if thats a good thing or not.lol  

Maddie helped me mix the cake batter and then we added color to seperate bowls, of course we talked about what would happen etc. She was amazed to see the batter change colors as she mixed. Soooo here comes the messy part, I set her up with a tray and I had one too. She dumped generous helpings of batter into the little cups, all the while licking everything her little hands touched. (dont worry neighbors if you recieved mini cupcakes today, you got mine=) I could not believe how amazingly bright they turned out! Maddie was more interested in eating the icing and sprinkles then putting it on her cupcakes. We even lucked out and Daddy came home for a surprise lunch and took a pic of both of us in the kitchen.

We ended our school day with a new task, sewing. This was a bit of a challenge, but once she realized what I was asking her to do she quickly caught on. (thanks for the string tip Stacy) I think as she continues her ability to hold the card and string it will improve. Soooo very busy toddler day, my house is relatively clean as I was entertaining Madddie all day so she had no time to run around and destroy. Oh my, I almost forgot to mention our art project! WHAT ME? We used barbasol and glue mixture to make fake frosting (thanks Tracy)and painted and smeared our mock cupcakes and then added sprinkles. It was so fun.