DR Stuff

Daydreamers by Tom Feelings is wonderful for its illustrations, but the lyrical text provided Drs for us to read. Dream Hop by Julia Durango was fantastic.

Activities

Drum.



Oatmeal container. Decorated with all sorts of bling. Cut a whole in both ends and strung yarn through it so it can go around Talmage's neck. The site I found the project on recommended making drumsticks, but I thought hands worked well.

Dragon.



How cool is that dragon? I found the instructions for it here. We took a 12-egg egg carton and cut it in half. We painted one half one bright color, and after cutting two egg holders (is that what you call them?) and painted that part another bright color. Then I followed the inspiration of the activity village creator and cut out flames and and nose out of other bright colors. Tissue paper for the head and body. Talmage wanted to add ribbon for a tail and I thought that was a nice touch.

On second thought, follow the link I attached for more clear instructions.

Dragonfly.



I googled "dragonfly craft" and came up with a couple ideas and then combined them for our dragonfly. Talmage colored a large popsicle stick with markers and we affixed googly eyes on the end. I used the wings you can find here and here. (The person who made the images made them large, so for them to fit on a 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, click on print preview and reduce the image to 30%. I also switched the paper to a landscape orientation.) I printed the wings on bright paper and let Talmage decorate them. Being a dragonfly, I thought glitter would be a nice touch. Talmage did, too.

Dress-up Dolls. I found these ethnically diverse, not afraid to be man enough to put on a unitard or a one-sleeved dress, boy paper dolls here.



Creepy looking, aren't they?

I thought it would be more fun for Talmage to color them, so I opened them in Photoshop and turned them into colorable outlines. The only problem is that in the process, I lost the little tabs to fold back on the clothing so that the clothes can attach to the dolls.







Talmage took issue with me calling them dolls. Apparently dolls are for girls. Of course the first thing Talmage did with one politically correct dress up guys was attack the other politically correct dress up guy.

Treasure hunt. dragon, dragonfly, dress, dresser, drink. The treat was gumdrops.