Olympics hall of fame - sticky wall

The Olympic craze is still on in our home. Every evening we watch a little (30-40 mins) of the Olympic Games on TV no matter what's on. So far E. has seen handball, swimming, fencing, shooting (I wasn't very happy with that), water-polo and judo.

We don't just watch the Hungarians but all nations but of course we try to focus on the Hungarian victories. We've  won so many medals so far we can be really proud of our Olympians. I thought we should pay a tribute to them somehow and that's when the idea of a hall of fame on our wall came to my mind.


I put contact paper on the wall (sticky side out) with the help of some painter's tape. Then E. coloured the letters of the Olympic Games, which I printed from the net, using the colours of the Olympic rings.

She also coloured a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. We stuck them all up the sticky paper.
Daddy printed the picture of our Olympians together with their sports and I laminated them.

Next, E. put them up in the right column depending who won what kind of medal.

Szilágyi Áron (fencing) is to come to the gold medallists.

Congratulations to all our Olympians. We're proud of you, all!  

Ocean animals foam stickers

E. got a pack of ocean themed foam stickers. She got so excited that I had to find out a something so she could stick them somewhere immediately.

I wasn't in a very creative mode, I just gave her a sheet of blue construction paper and I joined her drawing some underwater scene.

We were just drawing and sticking... simple and great fun. Just what she wanted to do

The bottom of the ocean is ready: plants, floating algae, rocks and a sparkly starshish

Some animals at the bottom, some are floating, and a dolphin is jumping out:

Art in action on a messy table:

Finished:

E. took a photo of my ocean scene:

 She took out another sheet and made another ocean scene:

Vocabulary used:
crab
octopus
seahorse
dolphin
starfish
shell
seaweed
coral
(a school of) fish
rock
algae
sand
swimming
floating
jumping

I guess I need to buy another set of foam stickers :)

Earth Day 3.0 - sticky Earth

Today we have made another fun Earth related activity:

It was a sudden idea so I didn't do the preparation myself. It was a real whole-family task.

What you need:

- contact or sticky paper (here in Hungary you can buy it as the sticky cover for school books)
- green and blue crepe paper
- scissors
- permanent marker (preferably blue)

Optional for the letters:

- green cardboard strips

While I was drawing the continents on the transparent side of the sticky paper my dear family were cutting the crepe paper into tiny pieces. Then we fixed the sticky sheet on the wall and pulled the paper off.

Sticking could start. Green went on the land and blue on the seas and oceans.

It took a while and we needed to help E. She wouldn't have had patience and persistence to do it all alone.

When we finished, E. stuck the letters up. We directed her how to put the letters. Although we did this activity in Hungarian I chose to put on the English word for our planet as it would have been awfully difficult to cut out the accents in 'FÖLD' in Hungarian.

HAPPY

DAY!!!