BabyZ's Jungle Book Nursery

Recently, we just moved BabyZ from his nursery into the the big boys' room. Before we converted it back into at guest room, though, I wanted to capture some pictures of the space. The Jungle Book is a favorite of the older three kiddos...I've lost track of how many times we've read/listened to it.

This space was a labor of love. I bought new curtains and sheets from Target, but everything else was either a hand-me-down, handmade, or a gift. I never really finished the room; I had plans to make a print with a picture of the kiddos and the quote, "For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack." With BabyZ being the fourth kiddo though I just never seemed to find the time...I'm sure lots of other moms can relate.

One think I've done for all my kiddos nurseries is create a name decoration. This one was pretty simple, just wooden letters, decorative paper, and Mod Podge.

Jer used a laser cutter to create the mobile and the wood print. The animal pictures were taken by one of BabyZ's aunts and printed on canvas.

This The Jungle Book: A BabyLit Animals Primer has been in BabyZ's room since birth but it's only been the last couple months that it's become a favorite. It's fun that he's started to have an association to characters that the other children also hold dear. I'm not a fan of abridged classics for children, but I feel different about these. They aren't trying to take place of the story and it's been a fun way to engage BabyZ in the stories that the older three are enjoying. We've also enjoyed: Alice in Wonderland: A BabyLit Color Primer, The Secret Garden: A BabyLit Flowers Primer, Anne of Green Gables: A BabyLit Places Primer, Little Women: A BabyLit Playtime Primer, and Treasure Island: A BabyLit Shapes Primer.

This room also used to Little Lady's nursery. We went with a book theme for that too - Beatrix Potter. You can view pictures of it here.

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A Little Red Cardboard Barn

We've finished our farm unit and are moving on to a new theme tomorrow - but before we do I wanted share the barn we made. The wooden farm animals came with a beautiful handmade ark that we gave Big Buddy for Christmas a couple years ago. I would someday love to have a wood barn but it's currently not in the budget. So in the mean time we decided to improvise and make our own. I stumbled upon this perfectly sized milk box (4 gallons per box) while subbing and thought it would be sturdy enough to handle play. Hubandie and the boys used an x-acto knife and wood glue to build a barn shape. to get the doors to fold out hubandie used an x-acto knife and scored the inside of the cardboard We then painted with a basic primer and outlined a window and a door with painters tape. cardboard is very porous so priming is a must if you want decent coverage Big Buddy however insisted that we add more windows so it...

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Preschool Syllabus: Dr. Seuss

Normally I'd do a Dr. Seuss unit in March around his birthday. We had to do one now though because on Saturday Big Buddy and I going on a date to a Dr. Seuss exhibit . The exhibit is only at the museum until January and I'm afraid if we don't go now we might not get the chance. We are of course reading lots of Dr. Seuss's books. A great advatage to studying Dr. Seuss in November rather than March is that all his books were available at the library. I also found a great children's biography which is perfect for preschoolers. Pebble First Biographies: Dr. Seuss We've read it a couple times and Big Buddy loves reciting all the facts he's learned WRITING CENTER ADDITIONS big buddy's name in sand paper letters, coloring pages & mazes from seussville.com skills practiced: fine motor, letter recognition, creativity, reading comprehension LEARNING "TRAYS" - I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy...

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Jack-O-Lanterns on the Fridge

Last fall I saw the idea for refrigerator pumpkins with face pieces in FamilyFun Magazine and have been anxious to recreate them ever since. It was pretty quick and easy and since the only thing we didn't have on hand was magnetic sheets ($1.50 with coupon at Joann's) it was also very cheap. my supplies: magnetic sheets, orange & black construction paper, white pen, tacky glue *i know they have self adhesive sheets but my Joann's didn't carry them glued (very messily) and ready to cut Both the boys were quite enthused when they discovered them after rest time :) Hopefully it will keep them entertained until we carve real pumpkins.

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