letter of the week

Here are some of the C activities we will be doing this week:

• making chocolate chip cookies (and using measuring cups) and maybe sugar cookies with cookie cutters
  
• doing color hunts around our apartment and working on color pages for our color book
• color experiments (with food coloring) to see what colors you get when you mix them
• reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and making either egg carton caterpillars or paper chain caterpillars
• Christmas countdown chain
• making pictures by tracing cookie cutters
• making pictures with precut circles of all sizes-the circles can be used whole or cut into pieces like a pie; cutting with scissors
  
• decorating and wearing a crown
• calling cousins
• making a cootie catcher
• talking about constellations-we have a great book for this
• clouds-talking about them, looking for them in the sky, making some with cotton balls
• snacks-crackers & cheese, chips & cheese, carrots, celery, chunks of cheddar cheese
• making a snowflake with cotton balls and cotton swabs
• counting with cotton balls; possibly addition as well
• making confetti
• cookie cutter candy ornaments
• making Christmas cards for Sarah to send
• making carrot cake-and possibly baking in cupcake format
• making chocolate covered things-like strawberries and pretzels and marshamallows
• eating Chinese food
• making a calendar for Sarah to use for next year
• building a cardboard castle
• buying and playing with Colorforms
• decorating a can for putting things in
  

Other ideas we won't be doing:

• cereal necklaces or cereal pictures
• coloring eggs
• making caramel popcorn
• chocolate or cheese fondue
• talking about/making a clock
• making clown cupcakes
• going to the circus
• craft projects
• wearing costumes
• playing with cars
• eating cotton candy

So many possibilities-I love the letter C!