Nice Jellyfish

On Friday we made some Jellyfish. We were lucky enough to have Mimie visit over the weekend, so I'm a little behind with my posts. It always takes me a week or two to catch up on everything in the house after taking off time to enjoy a visitor. Orin remembered that we saw jelly fish in Florida this past summer and that they were "mean." I just told him that we were making nice jellyfish.

First they colored a paper plate with markers. Caiah still doesn't recognize his colors. I'm not sure if that is my fault for not working him more, of if he just hasn't "got" it yet. I remember it took Orin a long time to get colors. In fact, he recognized all of his capitol letters before his colors. Notice they both have the same "concentration" face in all of the pictures. :-)


Then they got to choose four stickers to put on it. Orin chose Thomas The Train stickers and Micaiah chose Dora.


Then I let them pick colors for the tentacles. Orin chose pink of course. They enjoyed using the glue stick and I controlled my desire to make sure they put them on perfect and let them do it themselves.


I had to cut the paper for the tentacles and the paper plate. Orin wanted to help of course, but I don't think he has ever used scissors before. I had bought some children's scissors recently so I let him practice on a paper plate. He enjoyed just making cuts over and over and I think he did a good job for it being the first time he had ever done it.


I thought they came out cute! The first thing Orin said was "can we put it on the refrigerator." No room so instead we hung them by the window.