Tot Trays-Sorting, Counting and Colors

Matching colors. I got the bear clips from the Dollar Store.

Counting Dice

I got these dice at the Dollar Store too. We played a few games:
He rolled the dice and what ever number he rolled we stacked in the same stacks.

Then I got out a sentence strip with the numbers 1-10 and
Caden rolled the dice counted the dots and then he put it on the correct number.

Then we sorted pebbles. I got everything you see there from the Dollar Store too.

Raising Rock Stars- Matthew 13: 3-8 Good and Bad Soil

I got so inspired by 1+1+1 Raising Rock Stars post that I begin posting more about our Bible Lessons. We are trying to include our Bible Lessons on a more consistent schedule and this will totally help by doing this post.

So we started with the Parable of the Sower. I got the flower from Making Learning Fun. Our Bible lesson comes from ABC Jesus Loves Me.

I also purchased the Read n' See DVD Bible that Clarisa suggested. We love it because we read our scripture, do an activity and then watch the clip from Read n' See DVD.

Little White Duck- Frog

Caden finger painting his frog

Mixing yellow and blue to make green.

We also made green jello!

Rainbow Cupcakes

Oh my goodness!!!! I really thought the kids would enjoy this one and I sure was right. Buttttttt I thought they would enjoy spooning the different colors into the cupcake pan. I was wrong all they did was lick there little fingers to the bone.....and the bowl and the table and there mouths. Anything that had cake batter on it they licked!!!! lol It sure was fun and messy!

I got this idea and recipe from Family Fun.

Eggs in the Basket

Caden's basket

Hannah's basket

Hannah painting her basket.

Eggs in the Basket- In this lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm we got spring sponges or egg sponges and dipped them in paint and then pressed the sponge on their basket.

Little White Duck- Red Snake Collage

Caden's snake

Hannah's snake.

Hannah coloring her snake.

In the book Little White Duck it talks about a red snake playing in the water. The lesson from The Itty Bitty Bookworm was to color the snake red and make a red collage on the snake. The kids enjoyed putting all kids of fun little objects on the snake.

New Tot Trays-Little White Duck

Flowers, pot, shovel (not in picture) and gloves.

Mini baskets and mini eggs. The kids have to match the correct color egg into the correct color basket. I got these items at Hobby Lobby.

5 Little Ducks Song. I cut a slit in the top of a can and we sing the song and put the duck coins in the slot. I got the song and idea from Make Learning Fun.

Pouring marbles from one container to the next.

Little White Duck- Ticklish Frog

In the book Little White Duck the fly tickles the frog. So the kids colored the frog and the fly and glued the fly on the frog's nose. Lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm.

Daddy's Surprise

It was so cute....yesterday Daddy came home with new bikes for the kids! They can not ride them yet but they thought they were pretty neat. What a sweet Daddy!

Land and Water Forms

I got this great idea from House Art Journal. We are talking about Land and Water forms and we used play doe to represent the land and of course water to represent water. We talked about the gulf and and an island. I got the print outs from Montessori Materials.

Matthew 13: 3-8

Pouring in the soil.

Planting the seed.

Watering the seed.

...and waiting.

This week we are reading Matthew 13:3-8 Seeds: Good and Bad Soil. The lesson is from ABC Jesus Loves Me. So we decided to plant a sunflower seed.

The Little White Duck

This week we are reading The Little White Duck. Our first lesson from The Itty-Bitty Bookworm was to color the duck's beak orange in the story and then paint glue on the duck with a q-tip, then add feathers.

After we did our art activity we did a little PE. It was called Lily Pad Hopping. I made colored Lily pads and placed them on the floor. When the music was on the kids skipped around the room, when the music stopped they would freeze on any lily pad.

Alphabet Mystery Box

This is a cute game I got for Caden at Lakeshore Learning but Hannah enjoyed it also just because she liked pulling things in and of the box. Inside the box is miniature size objects. You pull one object out of the box and place it on the correct beginning sound of the object word. It is good for Hannah because she can pull an object out of the box and we can work on her vocabulary and word pronunciation. Caden actually works on his beginning sounds. I have to exaggerate the sound and he can put it on the correct letter.

Teddy Bear Hunt

Caden, trying to hide the Teddy Bear Paws. lol

The paws he found.

This week we had a Teddy Bear Hunt! I cut out Teddy Bear Paws and hid ten of them in the living room. Caden had a blast looking for them. Then he wanted to hide them! It is so funny to watch a 3 year old try to hide something! lol

Caden Helping Daddy

Caden's new haircut! I like it due to easy maintenance, but I sure loved his long hair.

Hannah 20 1/2 months old

Hannah putting rocks in Caden's toy while he is helping Daddy.

What?

Caden loves to help Daddy! Same day when the weather was nice we spent all day out side. Wow! We can not wait until it gets warmer.