Cheese It’s

Just wanted to put a plug out for Cheese It’s. They are making letter’s now. On the back of the box you can find this awesome scrabble game.

Water Play

Hours of entertainment. Fill something with water, get some toys and let the kids take them in and out of the water.

Bath Paints

One afternoon, when the kids had enough of each other and I needed their attention focused else where for sanity purposes we made bath paints. They loved it and Caleb has been asking to paint the bathtub since.




I used 3 TBS of hand soap and a drop or two of food die. Just to give credit where it is deserved I saw this on another blog.

Baby Shoes

Baby Shoes by Dashka Slater


We checked out this book from the library. My kids LOVE it!!! They enjoy it so much I decided to do a project around it. I drew out a picture of a shoe for both kids. I set them up with water paints. We read the book and when something happened to the white shoes, the kids found the color that applied and painted what they thought the mess would look like on the shoes.

Below are the final products of their painted shoes. I took the picture next to the book so you could see the comparison in shoes.

Caleb's


Madeline's

Chalk Art

Caleb is so proud of his portrait that I thought we should show it off. Each morning when we awakes he asks to go outside and see all our chalk art.

B-I-N-G-O

The kids colored their sheets/items, cut them out and glued them to the paper. We used skittles to mark our items. Madeline didn’t understand what was happening to her candy so she didn’t play the first few rounds. After watching Caleb and noticing that the candy didn’t mysteriously disappear she started playing with us. The kids got really excited when one of them got a BINGO. They also really loved it when they tied which I believed was a really good lesson. The kids loved this game, learned from it and were rewarded with candy in the end. I think they will be asking to play it later.

Spiders

No it’s not Halloween in our house. You might be asking yourself why I would make my children a spider to play with especially since some spiders are extremely dangerous and this might entice them to play with any given one. Here is the story behind the spider.

Since fishing on Saturday, Madeline has requested her “spiders” we know them as fishing lures. See Eric went ahead of me with the kids and when I arrived Maddie had the lure box and had come attached to it. My first reaction was to tell her that they are just like spiders and she needed to stay away from them. Since Sunday, Maddie has found the lure box on many occasions and claimed her "spiders." She has asked repeatedly to see her spiders and I reply they are sleeping. Through my quest to figure out how to keep her mind off the “spiders” long enough for her to forget about them I decided we would make spiders. I kids love their new craft and have spent hours playing with them. So my next step is for them to get tired of the spiders, forget about them and then re-teach them that spiders are not to play with.

Yeah, a strategy that might have not been thought out properly. But in the light of things the kids love them.

Thumbprints

Caleb's


Madeline's (not sure why this is sideways)



We used finger paints. After the kids placed their thumb/finger down in the paint they made a print on their paper and told me what they wanted their print to be. I drew around their print to make the caterpillar, butterfly, dinosaur, muscle man, etc. It was fun seeing their minds come up with what they wanted to see on the paper.

Mix and Match

Colors, Shapes and the alphabet.






I placed stickers on a piece of paper. Then I cut out smaller squared pieces and place the exact other sticker on the square. The kids had a lot of fun matching the exact sticker to the one on the paper. Caleb enjoyed it so much that I made him one that was at his level. The alphabet.