The Start of the Pp lessons

Wow! What an awesome letter Pp is! So, maybe awesome isn't the right word, but I have so many ideas for this letter that I know we will take at least two weeks to be able to accomplish everything.

We started out our week with a craft from dltk-kids.com. They have quite a few peacock crafts to choose from. I chose to do the paper plate craft because we could use markers, paint, crayons and glue. I try not to choose crafts where all I do is cut out pieces and have them glue them to a specific spot. With this craft they drew the tail lines on with marker:

Then it was time to paint on the "eyes" of the tail. I varied from the pattern here because they called for dark colored thumb prints (blue, purple or green) followed by a lighter colored pinky print. I viewed some photos of peacocks on Google and decided to have the girls paint theirs' this way:

First came the yellow thumbprints

Then the light blue prints using the index finger

And finally, we used the pinky finger to add the dark blue

Tabitha insisted on doing it herself. Miss Independent!

(Though she did need help with the pinky)

I printed out the black and white version of the body parts. I colored Amelia's for her (blue for the body, purple for the beak and orange for the crest, with a little bit of blue and purple at the top). Tabitha colored her's using Amelia's as a pattern. I showed her that the body should be blue and the crest orange. Then she surprised me! I had been busy with something else and when I turned around she had picked the right color and was coloring the beak.

When it was dry we glued it all together. One more time I changed the project a bit from the original. The crest was shown to lay horizontally, I just thought it looked better vertically.

More posts on the letter Pp to come.