Tot School

C is 25 Months

We played outside a lot, we had beautiful weather and took full advantage of it. 

C very much enjoyed watering flowers of all kinds

We drew on the Magna Doodle a lot. She told me this was a sailboat. She also drew strawberries (she usually draws random shapes and then tells me what they are. I don't think she intentionally drew a sailboat)

I love Magna Doodles, they are clean and there is no mess. We keep one in the car as well.

 Play dough at Grandma's house (they have a/c!)

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C played in the pool a few times. We tried to get a new, bigger one, but the store was sold out of the one I wanted.

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 Lots of bubbles in the wind

She also
* drew with sidewalk chalk

* played in the sandbox

* "helped" with some gardening

And she did stART for the first time

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stART: There Are Cats in This Book

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I mentioned in this post that There Are Cats In This Book was one of C's favorite books that we had checked out the library. So I decided to make this book be part of her first stART.

We didn't have any orange paint, so we had to make some! I added too much red. So next time we have to mix orange, it needs more yellow, less red :) I drew an outline and C painted it. When it was dry she drew a face and then we hung it up. I said "look there is a cat on the refrigerator" and she thought was the funniest thing!

This has been linked to stART at A Mommy's Advenures

Alphabet Activities

Here is the picture of the letter activities I did not include in the most recent Tot School post.
Click on the letters to go to the original post. I still have letters A-J on my old blog.

A: Fingerprint apples
B: Colored using different shades of blue crayons
C: Caterpillar, patterning light and dark green
D: Painted dots using a small paint brush
E: Easter Egg stickers
F: Fork painting
G: Green Grass (green construction paper cut in small strips)
H: Holes (for this I used a hole punch, but C used a tooth pick to poke holes with a larger h on the carpet)
I: Ice Cream stickers
J: Jean material
K: Kisses - I put lipstick on C and had her kiss the paper
L: Leaves cut out with a punch
M: Marble painting
N: Newspaper
O: Orange Ovals (painted using C's finger print)
P: Pink Paint
Q: Q tip painting
R: Rainbows and Rabbit stickers
S: Star stickers
T: Triangles
U: Underwater (colored with a blue crayon and added some Finding Nemo and other ocean stickers that we had)
V: Vegetables
W: Water paint
X: Xylophone
Y: Yarn
Z: Marble Painted Zebra

I printed the letters using the font "Century Gothic" size 250, bold and outlined. Sometimes I had her do the project and then I cut the letter out. Other times I cut the letter out first and then she did the project.

Summer Reading Challenge

What a great idea! Check out the Summer Reading Challenge over at No Time for Flashards!

Tot School

C is 24 months

We spent 2 weeks on X, Y & Z - although we took several days off during those 2 weeks.

Xylophone, Yarn & a Marble painted Zebra (that C started to color before I hung it on the cupboard)

X ray
just a hand/arm print on black paper

Yellow Y collage
C finger painted yellow paint on yellow paper and put yellow stickers on the letter Y

Marble painted zebra
for this and the letter z, I put a piece of paper in an old Pringles container added some paint and a marble and had her shake and roll the marble around

Yellow finger-painting

Sorting Zoo animal foam beads

X,Y,Z graham crackers

Rice table with X,Y,Z sand molds

So we are done with the ABC's! Here are all the art projects C has done since she was 18 months!
I have all the ABC's in our kitchen but don't have a picture.

Other activities

I have seen this idea on a few blogs and have been wanting to try it with C.

I made the cards and had her match objects found around the house to the silhouettes - she really enjoyed this. The hardest part for me was finding objects to fit on 4x6 index cards that would be easy enough to trace and find a match :)

She got this puzzle for her birthday and enjoyed putting it together

water tub outside! She ended up wanting to water flowers instead of playing in the tub.

And of course we read lots and lots of books (seriously, this girl wants to read more than anything else! I love that!) Click here to see just a few of the books we have read.

Now that we finished the alphabet we are going to take an ABC theme break. I am going to now try and do themes based on books and try to join in on StART!