Thoughtful Themes: Transportation

This last week we focused on transportation.  Reagan LOVES trains, always wants to talk about the vehicles we see on the road, and is constantly asking about airplanes!  So spending a week focusing on transportation just seemed to make sense. Below are some of the books we checked out from the library this week:

Craftivity #1: Stop Light to go with Red Light, Green Light by Yumi Heo.

My dear friend taught my daughter a song about stop light colors that goes:

Red means stop,

Green means go,

Yellow watch out,

You better go slow!

My daughter was obsessed.  Asking me to sing it all the time, and singing it herself!  That is where the idea for the stop light came from. And, it was a great opportunity for my daughter to practice cutting and gluing.

I simply traced 3 circles, using a white crayon, onto black construction paper.  Then, my daughter helped me cut the strips of red, yellow, and green paper into tiny squares.  Finally, she glued them into the proper circles on the black construction paper. Project complete!

Craftivity #2: Name Train to go along with The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper

This is a book that has been around forever, and is still loved as much today as 50 years ago.  It teaches such a great lesson! My daughter actually liked this book so much, she slept with it in her bed for the whole week.  Our activity for this one was making a train that spelled REAGAN we have been working a lot on her name and the letters that make it up.  This activity gave her practice in identifying the letters and placing them in the correct order. 

I printed the train engine clip art onto colored paper and wrote the letters of her name on scraps of construction paper.  Reagan was able to help me glue everything in the right order and add the cotton balls to look like smoke. I used a black marker to add the final details.

Honestly, these were the only 2 bigger projects I did with my daughter this week to go with our theme.  Since she goes to preschool 3 days a week now, I only do “tot school” at home with her on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  We absolutely read the books multiple times, pulled out all of our transportation puzzles, vehicle play-doh stamps,  lacing car cards, and cars to use in sensory bins; yet no other planned activities.  

 “Thoughtful Themes” posts are probably going to be shorter, but hopefully they still inspire you to try something new with the little love in your life!