Red, White and Blue Week

During Red, white and blue week we celebrated Independence Day with many festive activities, books and songs. We made fireworks in a bottle with silver star confetti, water and red, white and blue ribbons. It was neat to shake them and see the stars and ribbon float around and then settle. We manipulated blue play dough, pretended to blast off like fireworks, made a footprint flag, made a musical marching band, played follow the leader, spray painted fireworks, shot balls up in the air like fireworks from our parachute, made red, white and blue paintings, went on a flag hunt, and had a celebratory picnic. We also read America, a book about opposites of America and learned "flag" in sign language.

Spray painting fireworks!
(They love to spray the water bottles AND it's great for exercising those little muscles!)

Playing follow the leader!

Reading America!

Exploring Jell-O!

She wasn't too sure about it.

These two like to squish their Jell-O.

Festive paintings!