P is for Pumpkin and Tent Adventures

I had a few activities planned for today, but the best part of our day was just going with the flow to see where things would take us. We had a great time improvising, and were always learning something along the way.

We practiced cutting with scissors and tracing along the ruler to make these paper pumpkins. When they were done, Peyton wanted to add vines to make a pumpkin patch, so we got some green pipe cleaners and twirled them around pencils (not pictured.)

I never push worksheets because I know how active Peyton is and I didn't bring him home just to make him sit still all day. But he really loves the workbooks we have and often asks to get them out. He always specifies what he wants to work on. Today is was colors and shapes. I was happy to oblige.

Conveniently enough, purple starts with "P".

Our devotional for the day was "God is my fortress." So we built our own fortress and crawled inside to talk about how it protects us. This massive tent has two big rooms and two hallways. I would have loved something like this when I was a kid. Obviously it was a huge hit. We even put our glowing "The Lord is my light" lantern from yesterday in one of the darker corners.

Crawling down one of the tent "hallways" into the big pop-up tent room at the end of the corridor.

This last picture was one of my favorite projects of the day. I didn't plan it at all, but Peyton asked if he could make a man out of shapes. So I cut out a bunch of shapes from construction paper and gave him a plank piece of paper and a glue stick. 

After he made the shape man, we decided to put him in a pumpkin patch. The pumpkins are made with a dot marker, and he decided the extra rectangles would make good stems. Peyton wanted the pumpkins to get plenty of water, so he started drawing an umbrella and said it was raining. I grabbed the glitter paints so we could add rain to the picture. He finished it up with a glittery sun at the top. 

We also made paper planes that we raced around the house, practiced name writing and writing the letter p, and made pizza for lunch. Though it didn't have anything to do with our letter for the week, we played three rounds of memory, too, and Peyton won two out of three.