Another concept I want to work on with Izzy this year is color mixing. He definitely has all of his colors down so color mixing seems like the next natural step and our first color mixing activity could not have been any easier! We filled 6 clear cups halfway with water and dyed each one one of the primary colors using simple food coloring. I then had Izzy pour one cup into another (for instance, yellow into blue) so that he could see the result (green). Any activity that involves food coloring is an instant hit with him so of course this activity was a winner. He also thought it was cool to pour the water and see the resulting new color. If you wanted to take this activity even farther, you could make a chart that kids could color in as you go along, but I didnt think of that until it was too late. For Sydney, the biggest thing we need to work on is gross motor skills. The first gross motor activity I set up for her was a pillow crawl. I just took all of the cushions off our couch and surrounded our coffee table with them so she was boxed in and let her go. At first, she wasn't too motivated to play on the cushions, but once I put some fruit snacks on top of them, that got her sweet tooth motivated and moving! Pretty soon she had crawled across all of those cushions and gathered all of the fruit snacks she could find. And I didn't feel too bad about the sugar aspect because all of that extra movement burned it right off :) Plus she could use a little more meat on her bones anyhow!
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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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