Today we worked on spelling Isaach's name again using old bottle caps saved from milk jugs. This was really easy to put together. I simply wrote his name on the front of an envelope and wrote each letter of his name on a bottle cap. I chose to use an envelope so that when we were done we could just slip the bottle caps inside and save it for later. To play, we sang a silly song about the letters in his name and then I handed him the bottle caps which he placed over the correct letters. He knew exactly what to do and wanted to do it three times before putting the caps away for safe keeping. This afternoon Sydney and I repeated her edible yogurt painting activity from last week but on a much larger scale. I started by taping down a huge sheet of paper. Then I made up two cups of colored yogurt and put drops all across the paper and just let her have at it. At first she just sat at the edge of the paper trying to eat up what yogurt she could. She wasn't too keen on crawling across the paper and getting messy. Although this was a sensory activity, my bigger purpose was for it to be a gross motor skills activity so her not crawling just wouldnt do. I decided to put fruit snacks out along the center of the paper to get her moving. That did the trick and she was off to the races! Lesson learned... she is just like her mama. We both move faster if treats are involved! Cleanup wasnt too bad either. I just put her in the shower, rolled up the paper, and mopped the floor. It also helped that I had strategically planned this activity on the day I had planned to mop the floor anyway :)
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AuthorHi! My name is Cassity and I am the mom to a little 2 year old boy named Izzy and a baby girl named Sydney. I am lucky enough to get to be a stay-at-home mom to them and we have fun thinking of new activities to do together in the afternoons. We created this blog as an opportunity to share those activities with you. Archives
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