Summer Vacation: Day 3 --> Sesame Street

It was a little cloudy and overcast yesterday, so I decided to do a Sesame Street theme for our morning activity.

We had a copy of Sesame Street Old School that I got from the library that we hadn't watched yet, so I put one in for us to watch while we colored.  


Sorry for the blurry picture.  I've been experimenting with different settings on our camera.

 I LOVED watching this with the girls.  Lots of episodes and skits that I remember as a kid -- and this was before Elmo, Zoe, and Abby!

For our coloring pages, I did a quick search online and found some great resource at PBS.org and the Sesame Street site.

After watching Sesame Street, I pulled out our Sesame Street Treasury book and we read a couple stories before moving on to our next craft.

I love this book because it's a great mix of stories, songs, and poems.  And there's also a few kid-friendly recipes thrown-in as well.

For our craft, we gave Big Bird feathers using glue and scrunched up yellow tissue paper.  I found the Big Bird pictures at Color Me Crazy.  (This site is a TREASURE TROVE of printables - coloring pages and activities.  Seriously, go check it out!)  This activity was a bit easy for Nani, but she was a great big sister, helping out Nudgie with her scrunching and gluing.  Overall - I think the girls had fun doing this.

And the crowning jewel of our morning was the Bert and Ernie fruit plate that I made them for lunch!



Not quite the effect I was going for.  Bert looks like he's bleeding from the mouth, but the girls recognized them.  I wonder, though, if they would have recognized them if we weren't doing a Sesame Street day!

 



Nudgie goes right for Ernie's eyes first

Bert was half a banana, raisins for the hair, marshmallows and raisins for the eyes, raspberries for the ears, nose, and mouth.  Ernie was half a tangerine with the same for hair and facial features.

I don't know -- kinda looked a little like them, don't you think?

So how many more days of summer vacation do I have left??