M is for Monster

I have a little problem known as the letter M.  There are just SO many fun themes we can do with M! This is it, for now.  We are moving on to the letter N.  I couldn't pass this one up though, and it was pretty quick.

Kate thought her green monster smoothie was very funny!

She has really enjoyed these monster books:

I almost forgot about the monster felt board set I had bought when Collin and Reagan were really young.  Kate enjoyed making him go away!

Looking forward to visiting with the Letter M on the next go around.  After all, we still have monkeys, mermaids, marshmallows, math, marbles, minions (Kate discovered Despicable Me 2 this week and she is obsessed), and many, many more marvelous M words to explore.

Goodnight Moon

 Goodnight Moon is one of my favorite books to read to my children when they are young.  Our copy of the book was given to me by a friend when I was pregnant with Tyler, and it is still in great condition.  It's a great book to use for some letter M learning because there is the moon, a mouse, mittens, and mush.

Kate was happy to eat two bowls of mush (oatmeal with blueberries).  She loved that she had a red balloon just like in the book.

We also found two kittens,

three bears sitting on chairs (well, they sat on one chair),

mittens, a comb, and a brush.

We even had a cow jumping over the moon.

I gave Kate some clothespins and showed her how to clip them on to her mittens and socks, but she did not like the pins on her things.  She actually threw the clothespins aside.

Kate also made a window like the one in the book.

Mustaches, Magnets, a Moose, and Muffins

We could stay on the letter M for a long time; there is just so much fun to be had!

This morning, there were some crazy mustaches in the house.

 I have no idea what happened to Reagan's hair this morning!  Ellie is such a good sport.  We are certainly going to miss her in the morning when she goes off to middle school in September.

This picture of Collin is just too much.  Way too funny!!!

I got in on the fun too.

Kate wanted NO part of this.  She would not wear a mustache and she kept asking me to take mine off.  She did not find it funny at all!

After the big kids left, Kate and I played with magnets and Magneatos (magnetic building toys).

Kate is very fond of the Laura Numeroff If You Give books.  We read If You Give a Moose a Muffin. We own the Mouse Cookies & More Treasury, and there is a recipe for mud muffins in the book, so we made those.

Believe it or not, I have more letter M activities planned.

Mouse Paint

Kate is learning the letter M this week.  There are so many different activities I'm hoping to do for M; it's just one of those letters I guess!  Today, we had fun with Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh.

Kate helped me squeeze red, yellow, and blue paint into sandwich size bags to represent the puddles the mice create.

Then we had the mice jump into the puddles by adding more paint to represent a colored mouse into the correct puddle.  Once the mice were in the puddles, Kate went to work squishing the colors together to create new colors.

I taped the bags onto our sliding glass door, and Kate LOVED this.  She was WAY more excited about this than she was about mixing the paint colors.

 Kate draws a lot of circles these days.  Sometimes she calls them circles, sometimes she says they are ovals, and sometimes she tells me she made the letter O.

Whenever I show Kate the letter M, she turns it around and says it is a W.  I remember Collin doing this too, smart cookies.

*The outfit is one of Reagan's old dance costumes.