Blake's Pirate Party!

Yes, my little boy is already four!  The theme he chose for this big day was PIRATES.  Here's a few pics of the fun day :)

I wrote this on our steps, leading to our house.  No one saw it however, because literally within 5 minutes of me writing it, it POURED.  Just long enough to erase the sidewalk and then stopped.  At least I got a picture of what it would have looked like ;)

Pirate wear for the guests.......

 My evil camera (or lack of camera knowledge more or less) presenting the food table in a beautiful shade of orange

 

 Pirate Maggie.......

Pirate Audrey.......

Pirate Titus........

Pirate Blake...walking the plank.........

 

Audrey loved the plank/ball pit :)

Because of the rain and crazy cold day we had to move our outside activities into the garage.  Not the most beautiful background for pictures but it worked great for our pinata :)

Who says you can't eat candy off a dirty garage floor?

Cousin pirates with their treasures 

Aaaaaaarrrrrggghhh!

 Not so aaaarrrrggghhh....

Can't forget Titus :)

Pirate ship cupcakes....

Tractors!

An extra cutie to add to our preschool lesson today....sweet Ella!  I don't have as many pictures of today's activities because I was outnumbered 4:1 and needed my hands and eyes more than the camera did :)

We talked about farming/tractors today and read the book "Driving my tractor"  We talked about letter "T" and then made this "T is for Tractor" craft found here

Start with just making the letter "T" then add wheels, a seat, and a steering wheel and there you have a tractor........

 

 Do-A-Dot activities are awesome!  Ella knew what to do aright away!  We 'dotted' our number 3 and letter T.....

Then some farm fun

 And tractor fun.

Candy Corn Fun

How do I get so behind on these blogs?  Yikes!  Well, let's see how caught up I can get before the beauty of naptime ends......

Since there is only two days before Halloween, I thought we'd do some fun things with Candy Corn....that disgusting little candy that so many people think is delicious.

Working on a candy corn craft...........

This is a game I found on pinterest and tweaked a little bit.  The charts in front of them have number 1-12 on them.  We used a large die and rolled it, counted how many dots there were and then put a piece of candy corn on that number.  Obviously, we could only go through numbers 1-6, but a second die could be used and the numbers could get added together to use all 12 numbers.

 I chose to stick with just numbers 1-6 because the second round we did, they then got to eat which ever candy corn piece the die landed on.  Six pieces of candy corn.....definitely enough to have at 10am!

Next game....Feed the pumpkin.  Object of the game was to thrown pieces of candy corn into the dish.  We then would count how many pieces of candy corn each pumpkin ate.

I can't tell you how many uses I've come up with this 3 section dish from the dollar store......

Here's an easy learning activity that anyone can put together....... 

Write the alphabet on a magnetic chalk board or dry erase board and let the kids match alphabet magnets to the correct letter.

In addition to our fun games/activities we were learning to write letter "p" and number "3" (using the poem 'around the tree, around the tree.  that's the way we make a three!')