Penguin Fingerpuppets

Since Lena started with a new speech therapist, I have been inspired to engage her in different nursery rhymes, fingerplays, felt stories, and songs.  The more she is engaged, the more opportunities for her to show communication with us.  She has been doing so good with leaning new signs and letting us know her intentions lately!!!

So on my search, I decided to make some fingerpuppets for the rhyme:  "Two Little Blackbirds" but after some thought, I don't think that blackbirds are very cute.  Sooooo, my favorite bird was substituted, PENGUINS!!!!

Lena absolutely LOVED doing this with me and actually hid her hands behind her back with me!!!

 They were so easy to make!  Draw out a pattern, Cut, and Hand Sew!  I had them done in about an hour.  

After the penguins flew back, Lena loved grabbing them off my fingers and trying to put them on her own. 

Two Little Penguins

Two little penguins, sitting on a hill.

One named Jack, one named Jill.

Fly away Jack (fly one behind back)

Fly away Jill (fly the other behind back)

Come back Jack (bring one back to front)

Come back Jill (bring other back to front)

Other Versions

(Do the same motions for all of these, but make the opposites animated)

Two little penguins, sitting on a cloud.

One is soft, one is LOUD.

Fly away soft

Fly away LOUD.

Come back soft

Come back LOUD.

Two little penguins, sitting on a pot.

One is cold burrrrr, one is hottttttttt

Fly away cold burrrrrrrr.

Fly away hotttttttt.

Come back cold burrrrrrrr

Come back hottttttttt.

Two little penguins, sitting in the road.

One is fast, one is slow.

Fly away fast.

Fly away slooooooow.

Come back fast.

Come back slooooooow.

(Classic "Two Little Blackbirds" is modified to "Two Little Penguins."  The other versions that I have here, are ones I heard, learned, and/or modified myself from my years of teaching.  I do not take actual credit for them, but don't know an original source)

I am linking up with Flannel Friday!  It is being hosted on   www.storytimekatie.com

She has some wonderful ideas and lots of songs and stories for little ones!

Meal Time!

For some reason, Aubrey LOVES eating lunch from a ice cube tray.  I got this idea awhile ago when I was searching around the web and a LOT of people were doing this with their little ones.  I thought I'd give it a try, and it was a huge success!  Everyday, I am asked to please put her lunch in a kid's tray.  I have been trying really hard to come up with different things to put into these small sections, and it has been a challenge to not repeat myself too much.  Here are some of my ideas:






Hot dogs, tater tots, corn, strawberries, ketchup, and milk

Pancakes w/ syrup, canteloupe, cheese, peas and carrots, and milk



Hot dogs with ketchup, string cheese, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and milk


Deli Turkey, Apples, String Cheese, Carrots and Ranch, Strawberries, and Milk

What?! My dad published a book?!

I haven't posted in sooooo long, but I've been up to a lot around here.  This summer, my dad had a book signing for his first book!!!  It was so exciting to see all his hard work pay off and it is published!  Of course, we've had his autographed paperback book for a month now, and I've read it an uncounted number of times to Aubrey!

"The Birthentine's Day Present" by R.L. Miller is available at:  http://rlmillerblog.blogspot.com/

Aubrey LOVES Penny (the star of the book) and I am looking at a way to recreate the cute panda into a stuffed animal for Aubrey, Lena, and the rest of our family!