Cornerstone Family and Youth

We started Spring off with a super easy craft thats is even easy for your smallest artist. All you need is a paper plate cut in half and give them some stickers, paint, tissue paper, markers, crayons, really anything to let them do their very own thing. We added a handle space cut out of foam. Easy and Simple . It was just to nice this day and we could not pass up the chance to take the kids outside to blow bubbles, color the sidewalks with chalk and yes even a little box dancing for the toddlers. Yes I said box dancing. There was an old torn down dox the little ones decided was their very own stage to dance on.

We had an amazing month in March. Full of nice weather and hyper happy children. We had a busy month with all the activities we had planned with the kids of CFY. We celebrated Dr. Suess with a party! We did a hand painting with the moms and kids! Something super cute and keepsakebale. We played “Pin the Green Eggs on the Ham” and read the Dr. Suess Book ”The Cat In The Hat”.

                                       We Quickly got into the St. Patty’s week Mood and went all out! Lots of wonderful Decorations were donated by the programs very own moms. It was all decked out with green shamrocks. We got the kids together for a chance to all help decorate an empty space on the wall that was in Need of color and what a better way then to involve the moms and Tots. We got all the kids to cut hand prints of every color in the rainbow! It was a team effort and turned out super cute.

Wall Decor made by the very own "CFY Toddlers & Moms"

The kids Enjoyed the rice bucket sooooo much I decided to give it another go with a Green theme for St. Pattys week. Filled it with Green toys the kids had laying around. Threw in some foam Shamrocks and confetti and some digging and pouring tools! I highly suggest to try them ! Kids love them. Summer is approaching so if you worry about the mess(and I will be honest its a huge one!) Do it outside on a patio or in the grass!

 The Polar bear week added up to be during an actual chilly week, which we clearly are not experiencing right now as we speak wow was it warm today:) We added a new experience to our playroom which was a hit!  It clearly was a mess afterwards. The kids had a great time with their Polar Bear themed rice bucket. We will soon being doing it again so much fun.

 We had a very themed based snack provided by our very own moms, Polar Bears. Each one was made out of some healthy bits, minus the Oreo cookie nose There is so many great ideas on the web for themed snacks take a look. I always find myself finding great new ideas. My kids are most likely to eat a snack if it looks fun and represents something they can identify. We try to stick with healthy but sometimes a little sweet is what everyone needs .

  Polar Bear Craft

Styrofoam cup

Googly eyes

white paper

black paper 

cut shapes for your little one like ears arms and nose with the white and black paper give them some glue and let them make their own polar bear its simple enough for your younger children with some help from you.

We let our kids do the typlical hand out invites to there CFY playroom friends. We let them start off with decorating there own Valentines bags to take them home and keepsake them. They went crazy decorating their bags with paint and stickers and hearts and added a picture of themselves to help the younger children indentify their friends bags, with out having to read names. I found this to be a great idea for a young group kids. Lets them be more independent and show them they are cabable people just like us to do things themselves without us always having to hover.

Now whats a Valentines Party without party food?!? The moms really out did themselves and its always an excitement for me to see the ideas they come up with for snack!

Can not wait to share our Polar Bear theme with you which is happening on the last week of Feb come and check it out!

 

Let me Start off by saying I highly recommend this book intitled ” the boy who hated toothbrushed ” written by Zehra Hicks. The kids and moms loved it! Its a super funny book and short enough to keep the attention of your young one and teach them the importance of oral hygiene. Kids made there very own clean teeth. The public health helped us supply the cfy kids with there very own brand new toothbrush which is very important to replace every 3 months . How long have you been using your toothbrush?? I know I am guilty of over using mine as well.

Its very important to teach your little ones at an early age about Strangers and Dangers. At the Last week of January we talked to our little ones just about thoes very things. We had a special guest come in and read to the kids about saftey. We would like to thank Constable Steve Wilkinson who was that very special guest!

The week of January 17th & 18th the playroom children celebrated Winnie The Pooh’s Birthday! Every kid is in love with this cuddly stuffed with Fluff bear and why not throw him a spectacular celebration. Great excuse to decorate with balloons and streamers and eat some cake YUM! The kids decorated their own party hats and brought along their very own Pooh Bear or cuddly bear to celebrate!