Reading Confetti: February 2012

Kid's Co-op Link Party

Welcome to the second week of the Kid's Co-op link party! When you link up, your project will appear on all of the blogs that are co-hosting (you can find the list below). So link up a kid-friendly project or activity and find next week's projects.

Let's Lasso the Moon, Imprints from Tricia, Nurture Store, It's A Long Story, RainbowsWithinReach, Life & Love Expressed, Train Up A Child, Growing A Jeweled Rose, My Creative Family, Toddler Approved, Rainy Day Mum, No Time For Flash Cards, Dirt and Boogers, Mum of Twins a Toddler and a Teenager, B.Inspired Mama, The Mommies Made Me Do It, PlayDrMom, The Good Long Road, Ways2Play, Smiling like Sunshine, Scribble Doodle and Draw, Small Types

I'd love a link back so everybody can join in the fun. Also, if you have a few extra seconds (yeah, right!), I'd love for you to leave me a quick comment telling me you linked up. If not, no biggie of course. I'm going to do my best to visit all the links, but I really want to make sure I don't miss YOURS!

There were so many great ideas and activities last week! Here are two of the ideas I pinned:

Make, Do & Friend made these adorable 3 Little Pigs Puppets.

Growing Book by Book shared ideas for books beyond repair. I especially liked the magnet idea!

(If you'd like a featured button, you can find it here.)

Interrupting Chicken Finger Puppet

We have a couple of little chickens around here who like to interrupt, especially during bedtime stories when all the stops are pulled out to prolong the moment before lights out. I do have to admit that as a reading teacher, I encourage interruptions during stories. There's nothing better than realizing that there's some thinking and questioning going on while we're reading. It drives my husband nuts though (he's more of a just-get-through-the-story kind of guy), so Interrupting Chicken was a cute story for us.

It's about a little red chicken who interrupts every bedtime story her papa tries to read her. It's comical because she will burst into the middle of a story like Chicken Little and yell, "It's just an acorn! Don't worry about it!" Eventually the little red chicken tells her papa a story and puts him to sleep. As a parent, I suspect his falling asleep had more to do with sheer exhaustion than the actual bedtime story.

I wanted to make a cute prop to go with this. I started with one of these party things:

I took off the cardboard decoration and taped on eyes and a beak.

The idea was for the kids to use them as finger puppets.

And also to blow them during the story when the little red chicken interrupts.

Of course, what ended up happening is that they blew these things all during the story and barely paid attention to anything else. Ah well.

Kid's Co-op - New Link Party!

I'm excited to be part of an amazing new link party. A whole group of kid blogs are collaborating to make the best link party ever! When you link up, your project will appear on all of the blogs that are co-hosting. So link up a kid-friendly project or activity and find next week's projects.

The link party will appear here every Friday and will close on Thursday. I'd love a link back so everybody can join in the fun. Also, if you have a few extra seconds (yeah, right!), I'd love for you to leave me a quick comment telling me you linked up. If not, no biggie of course. I'm going to do my best to visit all the links, but I really want to make sure I don't miss YOURS!

Hunting for Kisses

In honor of Valentine's Day, we went hunting for some kisses. What a sweet way to practice number recognition!

I'm a Big Wide-Mouthed Frog and I Eat Flies!

In my house, if you yell, "I'm a big wide mouthed frog and I eat..." both the two and three year old will yell, "FLIES!"