How Do Dinosaur's Eat Cookies?

This month our theme was My Senses and we have been learning and talking all about the 5 senses. At our Tales 4 Tots we read a book called How Do Dinosaur's Eat Cookies? which was a scratch and sniff book too! The kids got to smell the different pages, trying to figure out what sent they were smelling.

After storytime we sang Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and talked about what body parts we used to smell, touch, taste, hear, and see.

For a craft we used different material to make puppets out of brown paper lunch bags. The babies played with the material, such as feathers and yarn, testing their senses while the big kids made their puppets.

Join us next month! We will be reading a cute story about a penguin. Thanks Scholastics for sending us these fabulous stories!

Kids Book Club - Perfect Snow

This month we got together to read Perfect Snow by Barbara Reid, a favourite author in this household!

Perfect Snow is about two boys and their adventure with freshly fallen snow! Snow comes one night, and the next morning it's Perfect Snow for the schoolyard. Scott is making snowmen, and Jim wants to build the world's best snowfort. They find a way to work together to make a great creation from the perfect snow!

Winter Wonderland is our January theme at momstown, so this book was perfect! We made snowman for our craft and used some sugar to make snow on our art work. Nothing like a little mess and some good old fashion sensory play! Thanks to Chapters Polo for letting us make a mess of their place!

Congratulations to this adorable little tot who got to take home a copy of the book!

Kids Book Club - A Porcupine in a Pine Tree

This past month we got together to read a fabulous book called A Porcupine in a Pine Tree - A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas written by Helaine Becker and illustrated by Werner Zimmerman.

This is the classic 12 Days of Christmas, but with a Canadian twist! There are beavers, caribou, loons, and even Stanley Cups!

 For our craft we made Rudolph ornaments the keep with the theme of Christmas, and our monthly theme of R is for Rudolph! 

Thanks to Scholastics for sending us this fabulous book to read and giveaway! This mama has had to sing this book many times during the Christmas season. It was even brought out to sing at our Circle Time Nursery Rhymes playdate!

Kids Book Club - Scarecrows!

This month at our Kid's Book Club we headed to Chapters Polo and read Story County by Derek Anderson. Story County is a story about a farmer and his animals building their farm together, including a very pretty scarecrow! Read more about Story County on the momstown Book Review page.

 After story time we made a scarecrow craft. I'm not sure if something was in the water, but all the kids were super well behaved and did the entire craft on their own without mom's help. We were all in shock!

And let's not forget about the babies.....

We had lots of fun sipping on our Starbucks while the kids heard a story and played. Can't wait until we meet again in November!