Butterfly worksheets

Life cycle worksheet we got from here. He had to cut and paste them in order.

Butterfly coloring page, we used three different mediums of to color. Hockey puck crayons, oil pastels and pencil colors.

Life cycle of a Butterfly

AR's first ever book, illustrated by mama! I have to add that this was lots of fun and it also turned out to be a GREAT learning aid! We are definitely going to be making more inshaAllah.

You will need:

• Foam paper
• Permanent marker
• Hand single hole puncher
• Fiber yarn (from the rice bag)
• Colors to color the pictures
• Construction paper to cut the eggs, leaves and caterpillar out,
• Stapler

Butterfly craft

AR loves hand prints so we made a butterfly with hand prints!

Insects: Butterfly

We have been looking into insects and we started of with B baa butterfly.
We started of by:

1.    Reading Sulaiman (a.s)'s story and discusses how Allah swt ha given him the abilty to communicate to insects and animals.

2.   Then we looked into "Children's Picture encyclopedia" (its a great book!)

3.  He picked the butterfly so we looked into the butterfly

4.  Watched the following videos on youtube about the butterfly life cycle.

      a) Click here MAKE SURE TO MUTE THE VIDEOS

      b) Click here 

      c) Click here

    We watched a few more you can surf around for them. It was really amazing SubhanaAllah for both of us.
5. Talk about Allah's creation, how Allah swt's made these beautiful butterflies in all different colors.

6. Butterfly craft

7. AR's first ever bool "Life cycle of a butterfly

8. A worksheet

9. Butterfly coloring page
10. Butterfly mobile
11. Origami Butterfly.

Road map

A little fun boyish activity. AR loved it! He wanted to make a road that would take us from Makkah to Madinah, thats why you see the Kabbah there (we made for Hajj last year). The red thing at the bottom left is the Madinah underground parking lot.

What you will need

1. A garbage bag cut open
2. Masking Tape to make roads
3. Different types of Vehicles
4. Road "accessories" meaning stop signs and trees
5. We added a small farm land and animals
6. Be creative and let the child play with his imagination

Balloon CAR!

We also made a balloon car!! which he enjoyed a lot because of his love for cars. We got this idea from this website...ours didn't work at first but second time it worked great. Both the kids enjoyed it a lot.

It was a great boyish activity!!

The website has many other science projects. Click here to check it out

Transportation Theme

Another all time favorite of AR...transportation. We were not able to take that many pictures but here is a list of things we did.

• We have a really nice Discovery Children's Encyclopedia that we used to learn different ways we go from one place to another.
• learned about different vehicles
• we divided his transportation toys in the 4 categories  
• In the Air    
• on the road
• on the track
• on the water
• his all time favorite...... CAR Painting!! 
• we used his cars and made tire tracks on play dough
  

origami airplane

We made a wooden boat toy his dadi had given him when he was a toddler. I had saved it to use it when he was a bit older and now was the perfect time.

We made a origami boat

He made a pretend neighborhood on a carpet his phoopoo(aunt) had given him, using different vehicles he had in the right places.

This was something really new for him that Hospitals have helicopters of emergency...he was amazed to learn that.

Food Theme

For our food theme these are some of the things we did.

We did the Montessori lacing activity with wooden fruits

Next day we learned about Patterns

We had bought these for our little Chief (H)

So when we were opening them I saved the container and thought I could use it as puzzle for AR for his food theme.

I got these cards from Samko and miko before I moved here to Saudi....this was a fun activity although Alhumdulillah he knows his colors very well but he really enjoyed it. I love the way he has them all soo nicely lined-up!!

We did a lot of fun baking and cooking!

We learned in detail about the food groups. We did an activity for the food groups... I wrote the food groups on a piece of paper and put it on a tile and then he had too put the food of that category in the tile. e.g fruits---> so he picked up all the fruits and put them in the fruit tile.

We also learned about different food people eat around the world. I made dinner from different cuisines around the world during the week, Chinese, Italian, Pakistani, Mexican, American and Arab to go with the theme.