- Gather your materials. You will need 3 pieces of construction paper, glue, scissors and markers or crayons to decorate.
- Draw a low and wide M. Don’t cut it out yet.
- Have your child decorate the M, my son spent 5 minutes playing “match” with the markers and lids before coloring, I was loosing my patience but took my own advice after a few crabby minutes and let him lead. As it turned out he wanted to color the “bala” which is a W, so a little flip is all we had to do!
- While your child is drawing wild flowers, animals or other things like scribbles draw some small clouds . Older children should be able to do this and the next step on their own.
- Draw some snow caps for the tops of the mountain.
Cut them and the clouds out. - Give your child the 3rd piece of construction paper, have them draw birds in the sky, a sun or whatever they want.
- Cut the M out.
- Glue the M on the backing.
- Glue on the snow caps.
- Add the clouds and let dry.
Songs!
She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain!
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes
She’ll be coming round the mountain, she’ll be coming round the mountain,
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes
She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes
She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes
She’ll be driving six white horses, she’ll be driving six white horses,
She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes
Oh, we’ll all go out to meet her when she comes
Oh, we’ll all go out to meet her when she comes
Oh, we’ll all go out to meet her, we’ll all go out to meet her,
We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes
She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes
She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes
She’ll be wearing red pajamas, she’ll be wearing red pajamas,
She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes
She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes
She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes
She will have to sleep with Grandma, she will have to sleep with Grandma,
She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes
We’ll all eat chicken and dumplings when she comes
We’ll all eat chicken and dumplings when she comes
We’ll all eat chicken and dumplings, we’ll all eat chicken and dumplings
we’ll all eat chicken and dumplings when she comes!
melanie says
I love this idea! So incredibly cute!! I’ll be doing this one, for sure, when we get to M.
springtreeroad says
when my girl was a baby, she was quite the fussy one. for a while it seemed that singing “she’ll be coming round the mountain” was the only thing that kept her relatively calm. so we sang it over and over and over again. eventually i started making up my own verses. the only one i remember right off the top of my head is this:
she’ll be holding six white kittens when she comes.
she’ll be holding six white kittens when she comes.
she’ll be holding six white kittens and they’ll all be wearing mittens,
she’ll be holding six white kittens when she comes.
🙂
Kristin says
Great M!
pammy cardwell says
I have a preschooler so this is great!
jamie b says
i love all of your ideas! my son just turned 2 and i need to plan to do one of your activities a week, if not more. thank you for sharing them with us! 🙂
Cassie and Jase says
Thanks for the great idea! Come on over and see how ours turned out – http://ouralphabetadventure.blogspot.com/2009/08/m.html