Water and Paper Sensory Play

It was a hot week. It is still hot. At this moment my husband is blowing up an air mattress so we can sleep downstairs, because upstairs is just too hot. Our 2nd floor AC went out today. Despite the heat we spent a lot of time outside this week, of course we were almost always doing something with water when we were outside:

Monday- Musical Instruments (xylophone, tambourine, bells, drums, whistles, lots of fun!)

Tuesday- Sprinkler Play date 

Wednesday- Library Story Time  

Thursday-Water and Paper Sensory Play

Friday- Water Balloons (3 year old; he would throw them at us, 17 month old; squeezed them until they popped and splashed water all over himself, which is probably a better way to stay cool in this heat)

Click to read more ...

Bathtub Watercolor Art

I have completed my second week of attempting to be an organized stay at home Momma! Here is what we did for structured (mostly) morning activities:

Monday-  Strawberry picking and preserving (following directions, our connection to nature and our food)

Tuesday- Bounce House play date at church (socializing, rules, physical activity)

Wednesday- Bathtub Watercolor Art (3 year old; colors, shapes, following directions, creative expression, 16 month old; don't eat the paint)

Thursday- Finger Painting and Hand Print Cards (3 year old; colors, shapes, consideration for others,  16 month old; textures, affecting his environment, not to eat paint)

Friday- Visited the farm with Grammy and learned about rabbits (3 year old; will follow up with library books, making a rabbit house, and planning for rabbits in the fall, 16 month old... well he still calls the rabbits doggies and pants at them, but he enjoyed the farm)

This week's How To (or rather, what we did and can improve on): Bathtub Watercolor Art

Supplies:

Click to read more ...

Texture Floor Squares

As my role in my children's life is evolving; going from full time working Mom to stay at home Mom and my children's lives are being reshaped; going from church preschool 3 days a week to stay at home kids, I have decided that I need the structure of having some kind of morning activity each weekday and my boys seem to like it as well. This is what our week looked like:

Click to read more ...