Paper puppets

I recently got Noelle a book about how to draw baby animals. After a bit of frustration with not being able to do it perfectly, I showed her how she could just trace the finished product. I suppose it's cheating but it gives her practice with pencil control at least. So after drawing many many animals, mostly cats, last night she started cutting them out. So I suggested glueing them on popsicle sticks. So we did, and we now have about 15 paper puppets with more on the way. To cut down on the puppet population, I suggested that she give each puppet a name and write it on the back. She got out the paper she got with her last Puppy in my Pocket purchase that has little pictures of all the puppies and kitties and all their names, and copied names from there onto all her puppets. But that only took so long so now she's back to drawing and cutting more puppets. She is cutting very well, right on the lines! I'm going to try to get them to do a puppet show later.
So what did we get out of this activity?
-drawing and tracing
-coloring
-cutting
-gluing
-writing
-drama and storytelling

This morning we were sorting the laundry with a few complaints, when I realized that I had never told them why we sort the laundry! So I told them about fabric and dye and what might happen if we mixed the laundry, reminding them about the time Jacob peed his pants and I left his red underwear and blue pants in a bucket of water for 2 days and the water turned purple, and what would happen if we put Daddies white t-shirt in the water? So I'm not sure what subject that would count for at school, art? Home-ec? But I'm sure they learned something!