Lava Bottle, Discovery Bottle and Oh, Science Activity Books

Lava Bottle

Lava Bottle

Discovery Bottle

Discovery Bottle

I got these cute ideas from this site.  Caden loves to do things with his hands so I just went on a search for some hands on activities.  Of course he loves doing crafts but he also likes pouring things and making things.  So I figured this would be perfect.  He did enjoy the activity so I am looking forward to more.  Oh, and boy did I find more when me and my good friend Elsie (check out her blog) went to the Homeschool Convention and found these great hands on science activity books for PreK-2nd grade.   Check out their site and see a sample activity.  You will love it!

Salt Art

Got this Salt Art activity from here!  What a fun activity...we had a great time with this one!  Thank you Ramblings of a Crazy Woman for the great post!

Ccounting with Tumble Down Counting Pegs

I love to listen to Caden counting so I thought I would share.  If you can't hear the video he says, "1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.  It is so funny how he skips, but knows 6-13.  The activity is called tumble down counting pegs.  I bought it about 4-5 months ago and he wasn't interested in it then, he also wasn't counting then either.

Counting Caterpillar Floor Puzzle

I got this Counting Caterpillar Floor Puzzle from a children's resale shop for $5.  Great Buy!!!!  It is a great Leap Frog puzzle.  He really enjoyed finding the number word to match the numeric number.  It also helps him to learn the numeric order.  He did great!  Oh and the other little puzzle he is holding in one of the pictures I got at the same resale shop and it was $1.  Got to love great buys! 

Online Game

We played a cute online game that worked with the alphabet.  Caden would push a letter and then an animal would come on the screen and made it's sound.  Caden would even say the letter before he pushed it on the keyboard.  He just couldn't wait to see what animal would come up when he pushed the letter.

Caden's Shamrocks

Since St. Patrick's Day is this month I wanted Caden to learn what Shamrocks are.  We are going to do a few activities all month and our first one was done today.  I cut out shamrocks and with glue I put 1 letter of his name on each shamrock and he sprinkled the glitter on.  He enjoyed seeing and calling out the letters of his name.

David and Goliath

We have been reading about David and Goliath in our Bible Book (Caden calls it). We also did a craft to go along with it. It is called David's Bag of Stone's. Caden enjoyed painting the rocks and had to put googlie eyes on them.

Sticker Fun

I got this Thomas The Train Sticker Activity at Marshals for $3.99.  Caden loves it because the stickers come on and off and they are not sticky.  I am not sure what the product is called but I have seen some on Oriental Trading.

A is for Ant Tot book

I have posted before about this great blog for tot lapbooks and website for lapbooks.  Here is another one we have created from their great ideas.  This one Caden was more involved.  He did enjoy this one better because he was involved.  He also is learning the order of counting by this lapbook.  We counted ants, I had him glue the amount of ants for each number.  The next morning he pointed to the screws on his bed and said 1, 2 in order.  So our next practice will be 1, 2, 3!  Yeah I am so proud of him!

Tot Lapbooks

I was searching the internet for more toddler activities and came across this Tot Lapbooks.  What a brilliant idea.  So I finally completed it, he was semi-interested but if I keep introducing it I am sure he will become a liking to it because he absolutely loves books.

Tent, Long and Short

This morning we made a tent and it was defiantly a hit with my 8 1/2 month old.  It was sooo cute!  My son was just rolling around and hoped that Hannah would wrestle with him as most boys would.  

While Hannah was asleep for her morning nap Caden and I discussed long and short and I was really impressed with what he already new about long and short.  He called it baby and long line instead but he got the idea.

Floor Puzzle Mat

Floor Puzzle Mat with cousin Zoe

Bead sequencing set

Caden wasn't that interested in the bead sequencing until we sorted them into colors instead of using it as sorting patterns.  We will have to try it again later until then we are just going to experiment with it.  

Valentine cards

I got this idea from this site, I thought my 2 year old son would enjoy it because he absolutely        loves gluing anything on paper!  We also talked about big hearts and little hearts.  I used candy hearts also, it was hilarious because he had such a hard time not eating them.  We also talked about sharing because he didn't want to put the hearts on the paper because he wanted to eat it.   

Blocks and Coins

I got this idea from one of the blogs I found but I can not find it for the life of me.  So if you read this and this is your idea let me know so I can give you credit.  I got the blocks and wood circles from Hobby Lobby and then painted them.  When the blocks you can have your son or daughter flip the blocks over and in the end have all the same colors facing up.  Then with the wood circles I painted and put numbers on them and I got a oatmeal container and he puts them inside and we name the colors and numbers.  In one of the pictures he made up his own game.  He matched the blocks with the same color wood circle.  He loves matching.  

Daddy's Valentine present

For Valentine's Day we are making Daddy a heart with lots of things he loves inside.  Caden absolutely had a blast painting the heart with a roller.  I planned to put both of the kids foot prints in the shape of a heart on the outside of the box, but Caden insisted he wanted it on his hand.  I will post the finished product when done..   

Early Valentine's Activity

                                                               

 I got this idea from http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=120035 this website.  I couldn't resist starting on some Valentine Activities.  It is a sun catcher.  You get glue and red food coloring mix together and then paint it on wax paper.  Cute and easy!

Many Activities Today

Today we have done a couple of things.  Caden did not have school today so I made sure he stayed pretty busy to keep him out of trouble.  First we played with play doe.  Then made stars with chalk on black paper.  After we made the star then we had a star cut out from http://www.first-school.ws/activities/nrhymes/twinkle.htm.  The reason we did a star activity is because we are currently reading The Big Picture Story Bible.  For our theme at church this year they are guiding us through reading the Bible.  They are doing the same with the kids.  Each week they have been getting a piece of paper that aligns with the bible and is also a puzzle piece.  

Today was such a pretty day we had to go outside.  Caden found his helmet and decided to put it on himself (backwards of course)...so cute!  We also played with some beans.  I put a couple of bowls and water out.  He loved it!!!