All aboard the Christmas train

Today we finished up our Christmas trains at the Lowes Build and Grow free program.

You can see that when we arrived 10 minutes early this morning, the work tables were full of hammering children so we ending up working on the floor.
Kimmy and one of my ASP's (Adult Support Persons)
Today was a big day, we made the last element of our trains---the engine.

Matt---ASP #2---(I like ALOT of help when the kids are using real hammers.)

Almost finished!

The tradition photo at the time of completion at Lowes.

Mark is just off screen, holding his train into view...what a silly guy.

Luke's Wild West train.

The kids had a choice between Wild West stickers or Christmas stickers.

I sewed the December patches on this afteroon.

Next Lowes Build and Grow is on Jan. 8.

The kids are all ready looking forward to it!

And I look forward to it because it is totally free....and you can't get better than that.

Transportation--The Unplugged Project of the week

What else could we do but TRAINS for this weeks Unplugged Project: Transportation. Anything involving trains stops Luke in his tracks!
We love the song Down by the Station, and this book adds alot of fun to the song.
I found this printable at DLTK kids. I added the letter T to the printable and then colored and laminated this.

I used foam sheets to cut out shapes for the train, making a sort of puzzle activity. The color of foam matches the picture.

Luke did a great job matching the picture. They didn't lay the pieces on top of the picture because the picture is smaller than the foam, but they made it on black contruction paper.

It was hard for Kim, but she kept trying and finally succeeded. After she made it once, it was easier for her to repeat her success. I also cut foam pieces to make the letter "T".

I also wanted to share this cute printable I found. You can see the printables near the bottom of this page.

Make sure to check out everyone's TRANSPORTATION activies this week.

Next weeks Unplugged project is: SCIENCE.