Neither D nor F day turned out as planned and I wasn't able to get many pictures from either day to share, so we are just going to save some time and combine the two days in to one post starting with D day. Our words of the day for D day were duck and dinosaur. For our duck craft, we cut a big letter D out of yellow construction paper and glued it to a piece of white paper to act as the body of a duck. Then we added some stars for feet, an oval for a head, and a heart for a beak, threw in one big googly eye and viola! We had our duck.
Warning: We made the horrible mistake of cutting Izzy's hair the other night. Don't be too alarmed. Now you may proceed. Neither D nor F day turned out as planned and I wasn't able to get many pictures from either day to share, so we are just going to save some time and combine the two days in to one post starting with D day. Our words of the day for D day were duck and dinosaur. For our duck craft, we cut a big letter D out of yellow construction paper and glued it to a piece of white paper to act as the body of a duck. Then we added some stars for feet, an oval for a head, and a heart for a beak, threw in one big googly eye and viola! We had our duck. Our dino themed activity was one that I had looked forward to for a long time. I cut some big dino feet out of a cardboard box and painted them to look simply amazing. Then I cut some slits in the middle and inserted a ribbon in order to tie the dino feet on to Izzy's feet. I thought once he had his dino feet on, he could stomp around the house and be a cool dinosaur for the day. I was so excited and took my time to try and get the feet to look exactly dinoish and purely awesome! Husby and I even tried them on the night before to make sure they would work just right. However, when it came time for Izzy to try out his dino feet, he wasn't interested in the least and wouldn't even let me put them on. Good thing they can be stored in his closet and saved for a rainy day when he is feeling a little more dino-y. For now, you can see a picture of them on my feet plus my awesome striped socks. Thanks husbers! The night before F day I reviewed the activities we had planned and decided I wasn't feeling them anymore so I did a last minute switcheroo. Originally F was going to stand for feather and football, but I wasn't feeling the whole feather thing so we switched it out to be football and fish. I came up with these activities last minute, but I still thought they would be fun. Football was to be our craft word of the day and I simply googled 'f is for football coloring page' and found a pretty good one that we colored together (though Izzy's coloring job was so light that it wouldn't show up in a picture so no pictures of that). Then for our fish activity, I was going to get a container of water, color it to look like the ocean and throw in some fish crackers for him to fish out. I thought it would be a great activity for him because the day before when we were at the doctor's office for sister's 6 month check up, he kept looking at the fish tank in the lobby and saying very loudly, "Eat fish!" Well obviously I couldn't let him eat the doctor's fish, but the fish crackers were totally up for grabs. However, as soon as I filled the container with water, Izzy decided he wanted to be the fish in this scenario and took off all his clothes and hopped in... no eating of the fish crackers was involved. So yup... my idea totally didn't work, but at least he had fun pretending to be a fish and sat in the container for a good 15 minutes until sister woke up from her nap. Since this is really kind of a lame post, I thought it would be a good time to talk about the fun way I have been introducing Izzy to our words of the day each morning. I call them his letter boxes, though they are really his letter bowls. This is the one I made for D day: In order to make his letter boxes, I simply write the letter of the day in both upper and lower case on an index card and tape it to the lid of the bowl. Then I add an object representing each word of the day. For D day that was a rubber duck and toy dino. For F day it was a plastic football easter egg with two goldfish crackers inside of it. Izzy gets pretty excited to open his bowl each morning as we briefly talk about the letter and words of our day. It is a pretty fun way to start the day and gets him all prepped for what is to come a little later on.
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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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