Hotdog Jellyfish and Counting Caterpillars

This week we made some fun creatures for my son's preschool snack.  The first one was Hotdog Jellyfish.  I cut hotdogs into smaller chunks and then I had my son and daughter count out 5 pieces of spaghetti that they stuck into each chunk of hotdog.  Then we cooked them in boiling water for about 6 minutes (long enough to cook the spaghetti).

While the Hotdog Jellyfish were cooking we made caterpillars from grapes.  We stuck grapes onto skewers, but before we started I had my son and daughter guess how many grapes they thought would fit on one skewer.  This builds estimation but also early measurement ideas (i.e. How many grapes long is the skewer?).  I let each of the kids put as many grapes as they could on a skewer and then we talked about if each of them had the same amount on their skewer.  They did not have the same amount so I asked who had more and how many more that skewer needed to have the same amount.  If you do not have room for that extra grape then the kids have to figure out what to do to make them the same (take some off the larger amount).  Once we had a set amount I let them put that amount on all the other skewers.  After all the Grape Caterpillars were made, we then counted out enough candy eyes to put two eyes on each caterpillar.

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