B is for Barn

For our last day with the letter B, we learned about the barn.

I got the idea to make a big barn out of poster board from the Mommy n Me bookclub website.  They had such fun ideas to use with this book.  We tried to use the spray bottle mixed with paint and water method to make a textured barn, but it kept getting clogged.  So we just ended up painting it with a regular brush.

 While the paint was drying, we made a little sheep and pig to live in our barn. The template for these animals, as well as a smaller barn, can be found here.

 To complete the barn; we added a door, window, roof and hay stack all out of construction paper. Also for the hay stack I cut up pieces of yellow yarn that Addy glued on to give some texture.  Maybe over time we'll make some more animals to add to our barn.

Once the enthusiasm over the barn wore off, we sang Old MacDonald had a Farm.  We used these cute little finger puppets that I'd made awhile back as the animals on the farm.