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It’s our first time joining the Poppins Book Nook blog hop and we’re extra excited to show you a couple of our transportation-themed activities! First we got started by reading a couple of Anne Rockwell books:
In both books, our kids took to the helicopters and trains. That’s actually pretty natural, since until a few months ago, they were Thomas and Friends addicts. Naturally, we followed up our reading by watching Go-Go Thomas.
As we watched the show, the kids called out the different vehicles they saw: trains, helicopters, boats, front loaders, buses, and more. (Of course, they called them all by name.) Afterwards, we decided to make our own helicopters. I stuck a push pin through a popsicle stick and then stuck the pin tip into a pencil eraser to make DIY helicopters.
Now the trick with these is to rub them back and forth between your palms and then roll it once all the way through to make them fly. It takes quite a bit of practice, but the kids were up to it!
Look at the determination and intensity on Pooh’s face!
Success!
Piglet was rather bored by it all, but we had a great time!
Be sure to visit the other blogs participating in the Poppins Book Nook fun this month!
And stop by tomorrow to see another one of our transportation activities from June! Keep on learning!
I had no idea that would work! We will have to try!
It does take a few tries to get the hang of it, but when it works, it’s pretty cool. 🙂
Those look fun! We’ve made paper ones like that, but I like the pencil one, it looks so fun.
What a fun idea! We have made Styrofoam ones before but never using pencils and popsicle sticks. Great idea! Although I had years and years of everything being centered around Thomas the Tank Engine and friends I must admit that I miss those cheeky little engines 🙂
Lol! Our kids are slowly outgrowing it and now I’m the one that asks to watch Thomas!