This week’s craft was a project for David more than one with David.

Since I didn’t grow up in the US, I never learned English until I was much older and I learned things much more differently than a 5-year-old might so I had no idea how to teach David to read. And I know he’s interested cause now that he knows all of his letters, he reads things everywhere, all the time. So I asked my friend Lori how one learns to read. She told me that in her kid’s school, they make kids memorize sight words. Words that are very common and ones where the letters don’t make their “typical” sounds so they are hard to sound-out.

So I googled “sight words” and found this link with all the words broken by grade. I printed the pre-K and K words. We picked two colored papers to glue in the back:

I can’t glue to save my life so I stitched them instead.

Then I cut them all up.

And using my Bind-It-All, I made a little book of all the pre-K ones. (I’ll do the K ones later once we know if this is useful.) Here’s our little book:

Now we get to learn them and have fun together!

This week’s craft was inspired by this (I am so sorry, I seem to be missing the source. If you know it, let me know and I will add it.):

The hardest part was finding the wooden pegs. We finally ordered them online and it was way to expensive for what it is. But anyway, they’re here now.

We wrapped some fleece on one and tied with fabric thread. Then he wanted to paint hair so we added a headband.

Then we drew a face and here we go!

We then made another one with a black shirt and green pants. We did add hair to this one later too.

Not nearly as amazing as our examples but still, simple and super-fun!

Since yesterday was Easter, we decided it would be fun to paint some eggs. I didn’t have white eggs or dye. I hadn’t really prepared well for this. So I improvised.

I took some of the eggs that were about the go bad, emptied them out and David picked some paint colors he liked.

We took turns painting a base coat.

Several of the colors he picked were shiny and translucent so they didn’t paint all that well but he didn’t care. We then made circles with the top of his markers and dots with the back of the paint brush.

So we ended up with these two.

And these two.

All in all, it was quick and fun and we both enjoyed ourselves quite a lot. Next year, I will be more prepared.

This week’s craft was inspired by this (click image for source):

David said he wanted to print on noncolored printer so he could color it and I obliged but then I woke up to this.

He seemed to like them so I didn’t say anything. We picked yellow and green construction paper to glue to the back, punched the circles out.

David put the glue on.

And I stuck them together.

We decided they weren’t strong enough so we glued the construction paper sides to each other and made them all twice as thick.

Which then made it possible for David to build things.

It was really fun and he is enjoying them a lot.