L Day: Letters, Licking, and Lambs

L Day today at Suzy's. Suzy started the kids off writing letters to their grandmas. It was more like drawing pictures for their grandmas, but the concept was the same. Scientist did really well, I was very impressed with his drawings. For the first time ever all on his own, he drew a head with hair, gave it eyes, a nose, and a mouth, and then drew some legs on it as well. (Don't mind that the mouth went in between the eyes and the nose, and that the legs were coming out the top of the head. He's got all the parts down, just not their exact locations yet.) That was his first picture. On the second picture he did even better. He got all the face items in the right place. This one didn't have legs though, but it had lots and lots of hair. When the kids were done drawing their letters, they got to fold them up and put them in envelopes to mail.

Next we did a really cool licking activity. Suzy had taken popcicle sticks and on the end of each one put different kinds of things to taste, like grape jelly, syrup, sugar, and a few others. The boys got to pick up each stick and lick it and try to guess what was on it. Scientist loved the licking, but did not do so well at the guessing part. :)

Once the sticks had all been licked to the boys satisfaction, we started on the next activity. Suzy gave each boy a paper with a lamb on it. They got to take Q-tips and dip them in blue glue and then paint part of the lamb with the glue and then stick a cotton ball to it to give the lamb some wool. I think they turned out super cute. And the boys seemed to really like working with the glue and cotton balls. Later, I wrote L is for Lamb on the bottom of his sheet and hung it up in our window with the rest of the Spring decorations we've been working on. Maybe if our windows say it's Spring, the weather will start cooperating. :)

For the last activity we all got in a circle and sang "Here We Go Looby Loo". Here are the lyrics:

Here we go looby loo

Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

You put your right hand in
You take your right hand out
You give your hand a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

You put your left hand in
You take your left hand out
You give your left hand a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

You put your right foot in
You take your right foot out
You give your right foot a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

You put your left foot in
You take your left foot out
You give your left foot a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

You put your whole self in
You take your whole self out
You give your whole self a shake, shake, shake
And turn yourself about

The kids really like turning themselves about and by the end were asking to do variations of their own, like sheep. Suzy did a good job of improvising, and came with "put your sheep self in..."