stART: "Up a Tree" and "The Umbrella Queen"

Y'all are getting a
"two for one" deal today,
courtesy of my eldest daughter...

This week, Baby Girl and Little Wild Man
are learning about the letter "U",
so I have been reading to them many books
which feature "U" words...

Like this one...

Up a Tree
by Ed Young

The illustrations LITERALLY speak for themselves
in this book,
since there aren't any other words in the book
except its title.

Jungle Girl looked at this book with us
since she was done with her morning work...

As I continued on with the younger kiddos,
Jungle Girl disappeared with paper and markers...

The result was this:

Her VERY OWN Picture Book!

Basically, it is a story
about a girl getting up, going to school...

...returning home, and going to bed.

Simple and sweet...

What I found so FUN about the whole project
is that it was initiated by her, and her alone!

Now, onto the "Mommy Directed"
activity...

Continuing on with our "U" books, the younger kiddos and I read...

The Umbrella Queen
by
Shirin Yim Bridges
and...

Umbrella
by
Taro Yashima.

We then had to make
our own umbrellas...

I gave each kiddo a piece of construction paper with
the umbrella handle drawn on it, an umbrella top
(also made out of construction paper),
glue, and colorful squares of tissue paper.

The kiddos colored in the umbrella handle...

...and glued on the umbrella top.

They then used their glue sticks
and the squares of tissue paper...

...to decorate their umbrellas.

Little Wild Man's and Baby Girl's
Umbrella Art

(OF COURSE,
Jungle girl had to use some of those colorful
tissue paper squares for her own creation.)

To see what other kiddos are being inspired
to create,
head on over to stART...