Squirrels, Nuts & More!

Well this week was our first week back in the swing of using our guides for the new school year and it felt great. Our theme was Squirrels & Nuts and the children really carried it throughout the entire week in their thinking, storytelling and play.

I took a simple crochet pattern from online and made it into this cute acorn pouch for Squirrels & Nuts week. Keira loved it! Now I'm being asked to make a few more... guess I better get to work!
We sang some new fun songs at circle time and enjoyed so many activities. At the bus stop, my own girls kept a log of how many squirrels they saw and we were on the hunt for the perfect acorn all week.

We left out food for the squirrels :)

And worked on our tree bark rubbings...

I was surprised by how much the older children loved this activity. I think sometimes as our children get older, we feel like we need to give them more all of the time... when what they really crave is less... the simple... time to absorb nature and beauty without complication.

They worked on their rubbings almost the entire play time. The little ones followed the big ones...

Is this The Last Child In The Woods? I surely hope not :)

The textures and colors were beautiful...

So we came up with an idea. We found a leaf that we loved... and traced in onto our bark rubbing papers...

Cut them out and placed them on top of our watercolor paper before we started painting. we weren't sure what to expect...

But the result was beautiful!

Autumn is right around the corner and I can't wait!!!