A few months ago we emptied our big container of black pepper. I held on to the empty container because I knew someday I would think of something to do with it. Then one night I was trying to make dinner. Husband was still at work and Little Brother was demanding attention. I did a quick scan of my cupboards to see what I could find to entertain him while I finished dinner. ...
Okay, I'll admit these aren't real turkey feathers, but since Thanksgiving is right around the corner it seemed like the perfect opportunity to pull out the feathers. I've had these feathers forever. They get pulled out for random projects here and there. When I taught school, I had the kids write Thanksgiving words with the tips. For Little Brother I thought it would be fun ...
Little Brother and I had fun playing with our new insect sensory bin while Sweet Girl was off to preschool. I found these cute insect finger puppets on amazon, but you could also look at the dollar store. (To be honest the only reason I didn't get the ones from the dollar store was because the bugs in their collection were too creepy for me. I need less scary bugs like ladybugs ...
For a few weeks now I have been saving the caps from our milk jugs for this activity. Fortunately we go through a lot of milk. I also saved an old diaper wipes container. I showed Little Brother how to drop the milk caps in through the opening of the wipes container. It kept him occupied for a surprisingly long time. Every time he got one in we clapped, he loves clapping. It ...
Little Brother has a love of music. I think he was born to be a drummer. We decided to branch out from drumming on the table, and everything else he can get his hands on, to playing the guitar. I used some rubber bands of different colors and different thickness so they would make different sounds. He had a great time banging on the rubber band strings. Sweet ...
This is an activity I have seen several times on Pinterest. I found this cute little flower tray at the dollar store along with the little tongs. I poured a bunch of poms poms of different sizes and different colors in the middle and told Sweet Girl to sort them any way she wanted. It took a little practice for her to be able to pick them up with the tongs, but she was pretty ...
It turns out that raising 2 kids does not leave much time for blogging about 2 kids. I don't know how all the mommy bloggers out there do it. By the time we run errands, eat play, clean, and repeat, there just doesn't seem to be time to update the blog. At least we are still finding time to explore and learn together. This is Little Brother. He is so stinkin' cute. We are ...
Last weak Sweet Girl and I practiced counting and numbers. Sweet Girl loves letters. she knows almost all their names and a lot of their sounds, but she has almost no interest in numbers. When she sees numbers mixed in with her foam letters she either thinks they are letters (5 is S and 3 is E), or she ignores them and sets them aside. So, I have been trying to find some fun ...
I love those activities that don't take a whole bunch of time to put together or a whole bunch of materials, and still end up being super fun. This was one of those. I have seen the basic idea for this activity on Pinterest, but we tweaked it a little to fit our needs. Lately Sweet Girl has been learning her colors and shapes, so to help her practice we played this matching ...
Look! I'm posting something! To give you a little update, I felt really miserable with this pregnancy for October, November, December and the first part of January. I felt pretty good about those days when I actually got up and made dinner. Husband was so good to me. He would come home from work to find me laying on the couch asking him to please do the dishes, entertain Sweet ...
Sweet Girl and I love to walk through the seasonal aisles at the stores. I love to see all the decorations. Last Christmas we visited every single store with a Christmas section and just admired their displays and decorations. Well, Halloween isn't quite as good as Christmas, but there are still some really fun things to see. One day we found these cute gel pumpkin window clings ...
I'm a little slow getting today's post up because I have been busy bottling apples. This is my first attempt at it. So far so good, except the smell of apples on my hands is a little overwhelming. It will be nice to have some yummy apples all winter long. I can already taste the apple crisp. Anyway, Sweet Girl and I have been fun playing with apples over the past couple weeks, ...
Today we continued our apple learning activities with apple tree one to one matching. One to one matching is a great pre-counting skill. I made a tree out of construction paper. Don't you love my artwork? I used red pom poms as my apples, and red mini cupcake papers to show where to put the apples. I glued on five of these cupcake papers to help Sweet Girl practice counting ...
This apple scooping activity was so fun this afternoon. I set out a small basket of these red and green pom poms and a cake pan. (It was supposed to represent a pie tin, but my pie tin is glass and I didn't want it to brake.) Sweet Girl got right to work scooping the "apples" into the pie tin. We talked about their colors and about making pretend apple pie. She is getting ...
In the spirit of Halloween, and trying desperately to believe that it's fall despite the 90 degree temperatures, I made Sweet Girl a felt jack-o-lantern to play with on our flannel board. I wish I were good enough to free hand it, but I am a terrible freehander. I have ruined enough projects to know that by now. Instead I used patterns that I found online. ...
A couple weeks ago Sweet Girl and I went to see the farm animals in town for the local rodeo. It is a tradition from when I was a little girl, and I love carrying it on with Sweet Girl. She loved to see the animals. We talked about each of their names and the sounds they make. I thought this would be the perfect time to put together a little farm sensory bin. To ...
With the start of preschool and Husband back to work (He works in education so he has the summers off. It's so nice!) I have been having a hard time fitting in Mommy and Me School. We still do activities and we play and go on outings, but it's hard to plan a specific activity and do all the things to make it blog worthy. I don't know how you working moms do it. I'm having to ...
I am the mother of two amazing kids and I am married to an incredibly sweet and smokin' hot guy. I taught elementary school and preschool before leaving to become a stay at home mom. Now I'm embarking on the adventure of a lifetime and learning how to be a mom.
