Friendship Bracelets & Circle Time Mats

It has been such a RAINY week so far. Like ALL day rain, not the normal Florida afternoon storm. I think it's making the kids crazy or me, or all of us. :P

I'm excited that the cool things I added last week still are continuing to hold their attention. But they are just getting so wild without being able to go outside! They need to climb, they need to run , & they need to YELL! You can imagine I don't allow those things in the house so its making the day challenging for ALL! lol

FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS

On Monday we made Friendship Bracelets out of toilet paper rolls. As usual the boys didn't want to nearly do the job the girls did, but that's why I have Payton and Shaelynn!! The more colors, stickers and steps the better for them. With the boys its like what can we do to turn this into something so we can fight each other. lol

I cut up some paper towel rolls that I had hoard*ishly stashed away for some sort of project. Its a constant battle with me being the anti hoarder I am VS. the daycare hoarder you HAVE to be if you want to have craft stuff at hand. 

<3 that face!

They colored them with markers and added stickers. I cut slits in them when they were done so they could wear them as bracelets! :)

Learning to click it shut (the markers)!

Please pay NO attention to that AWFUL tablecloth, just protecting
my table from tots with new markers!

Jax working hard!

" I can see you CoCo!"

The boys just liked clicking the caps! 

They added stickers :) 

Princess Payton showing off her new bracelets.

CIRCLE TIME MATS

I have been trying to find something easy for the kids to use to create a circle time area wherever we happen to gather that day. Depending how I set up all the different centers throughout the house that day, we had been doing Circle Time in different places. Recently I put up our weather chart & calendar so that we have a designated area to do Circle. Since this is new to the kids in general I have been coming up with ways to get them to stay in their "spot". I wanted to find scrap pieces of carpet because that is what I had used in a previous classroom, but just never did get it. Low and behold I had a long piece of scarp carpet in my garage. I was excited to cut it in to 4 squares. Since that carpet was there wayy before we even moved in I decided to wash them after I cut them into square. I'm glad I did! They came out clean and supper soft!

I painted each child's letter on their carpet and then had them help me add a hand print for a personal touch! They LOVE getting their hand painted!! & they came out SUPER cute!! <3