With my two older boys in school, my preschoolers at home are both of my girls. When I suggested to my 4-year-old daughter that we could have a P is for Princess day, she was pretty excited. I don’t think the boys would have been quite so thrilled The baby decided to take a 3 HOUR NAP (heavenly!) so the girls and I just kept playing. Fun morning. (These activities would also work for handsome little princes too!)
- Getting all Dolled Up … a little princess prep Not necessary, but definitely fun!
- Do your hair … my older daughter was happy to have her hair done “fancy” today. Ribbons, bows and all. My 2-year-old has a little cold and was grumpy today. She preferred her bedhead hairdo That works too.
- Make princess crowns … these two got new fancy tiaras for Christmas, but of course, they wanted to make their own
- Cut out a simple crown design.
- Add long strips of paper to each side.
- Decorate with stickers, crayons, jewels, and glitter (I didn’t dare today!)
- Add a gown … they each picked out a dress-up princess gown to wear.
- Peas and Carrots Snack
- Spread out a blanket on the floor
- Put carrots and peapods in a bowl for the kids to snack on while you read the book.
- Read “The Princess and the Peas and Carrots” by Harriet Ziefert … the illustrations are one of my favorite things about this story. And I love that Rosebud’s dad tells her the real “Princess and the Pea” story as a bedtime story (a fold-out book inside). A cute little twist on the traditional tale. I made sure to add that Rosebud’s mom HELPED her clean up her room after her tantrum
- NOTE: You could always go with a more traditional Princess and the Pea story.
- Where is the Pea? … my girls loved this game
- Cut a simple bed frame out of brown paper.
- Cut out several colorful “mattresses”. I used one of each of the basic colors because I wanted to work on color names with my 2-year-old.
- Cut out a smallish green circle for the “pea”
- TO ASSEMBLE:
- Tape your bed frame to the wall (down low)
- Stack the colorful “mattresses” by taping the top edge (so it flaps open from the bottom.
- Hide the “pea” under one of the mattresses
- TO PLAY:
- NOTE: my girls’ favorite part of the day was these little paper princesses I made with their faces. I just google searched “princess clipart” and chose the one I liked. I cut out the face and substituted one of my girls. They loved them. I tried to draw my own so you can print them out and color the hair and dresses … not bad
- Our ‘P’ pea banner … we had to have some decorations for our fancy princess day.
- Cut out several circles from green cardstock.
- Think of as many ‘P’ words as you can.
- Write the word & draw a picture of it.
- String them on a ribbon and hang up!
- The Pillows and the Pea Game … this game was pretty entertaining
- Spray paint a golf ball green = the pea.
- Set out several pillows on the floor.
- TO PLAY:
- Hide the golf ball “pea” under one of the pillows.
- Have the kids take turns sitting on the pillows to discover where the pea is hiding! To make it harder, try stacking 2 or 3 pillows together.
- When they find the pea, let them hide it under a pillow for the next person to find.
- Princess & the Pea Lunch … it just makes lunch more fun
- Mattress sandwich = layer bread, PB, bread, jelly, repeat.
- We topped our mattress sandwich with a green M&M “pea”
- Frozen Peas
- Cheese cut with P cookie cutters. I have ones similar to these here.
- Mattress sandwich = layer bread, PB, bread, jelly, repeat.