Fruit Salad

I recently picked up this set of fruit counters cheaply, because it was not a full set. I got them out with our colour sorting bowls for R to sort with.

R was not really interested in sorting by colour, so I came up with a little game to keep R's interest. I said some fruits and R collected them in a bow, making fruit salad for me. This is blueberry, grape and apple salad.

And strawberry, banana and grape salad.

Lastly, we had banana and strawberry salad.

R was really interested in this, and we spent ages making different combinations. including everything!

As we start working more on numbers, I had an idea to ask for fruit salad with two grapes, three bananas and one blueberry. I was even thinking of making some little cards for R to work independently. 

Cloud Dough

I had a bag of bread flour which had gone out of date, so I decided to make some Cloud Dough after seeing it on Play At Home Mom. It was really easy to make and both the boys had a great time playing with it.

The boys spent about an hour playing with this medium. When they were done, I stored it in a plastic bag in the fridge, so we can re-use it.

I halved the recipe based on the flour that I had available. 

Drawing with Window Markers

I recently picked up some Crayola window markers on sale (40% off). I paid about $4 for the set...BARGAIN!! We tried them out on a mirror and a window, but they were really hard to photograph! They work really well, especially on the mirror. I encouraged R to draw his face in the mirror, discussing the parts of his face and how many eyes, noses etc.

We also tried them out on alfoil. This also worked will, and R really enjoyed the noise that the markers made on the foil. He draw really fast to make more noise.



We will be using these markers a lot more!

Letter Gg and Grey

R is 35 months old.

We had a really fun week this week.

Craft
R made a giraffe from his footprint. He finger painted the dots onto the pieces when I cut them out. This idea came from Busy Bee Kids Crafts. This turned out unbelievably cute! R also snipped at the green paper on the bottom.

R did an easel painting with grey paint. To make grey paint we mixed a drop of black paint into the white paint.

R also did some drawing with all our grey pencils, markers and crayons.

R collaged a goldfish with gold circles. I used a circle punch to make the circles and R simply stick them on the fish along with a googly eye. Sorry, but the picture is not very clear.

R worked on a water colour picture of a goat from a purchased book. He really enjoyed this!


Letters and Language
I cut out a letter G and R added some glue and glitter. Another bad picture, sorry.

R sorted out the capital G’s and the lowercase g’s on the sorting mat from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

He also loves the Gg tracing. Anything that involves markers is much loved!

At his request, R also traced on the main letter page from Tot School Printables. He did really well at this activity.

R stamped with Gg stamps on a goat, from Tot School Printables.


Colours and Shapes
I sent R on a grey colour hut. This is what he found:

R sorted out pom poms, placing all the grey pom poms into a bowl.

I cut some shapes from alfoil for R to explore. He was not really interested in this activity.

Fine Motor and Sensory Skills
R explored some golf balls, rolling then and feeling the dimples in them.

R did a few of the Tot School Printables. He did the lacing card.

R played for quite a while, making sausages to cover the letter Gg and using the G cookie cutter.

R easily did the 3 piece puzzle.

R put some M&M’s on the Gg magnet page from Confessions of a Homeschooler. The M&M’s were a real motivator for this activity.

I made a simple sensory tub with green split peas, some measuring cups, spoons and a plastic muffin tray. R played with this for a long time.


Maths
More Tot School Printables. R did the goat ordering.

R sorted some cutlery that I set out for him. He also explored some coins, before posting them into a money box.

Science
I put some shaving cream and a blob of black paint into a zip-loc bag. R manipulated the bag until the shaving cream hat turned grey.

He then did finger painting with the grey shaving cream. We have done this many times and R never gets tired of it!!


Gross Motor Skills
We did the Gorilla Dance from an old CD from when I was working.

R got out his mini golf set and we hit the ball around the backyard.

I showed R how to gallop and we pretended to be galloping horses.

Cooking
We made our own garlic bread with home made garlic butter and a French Stick. It was yummy!

Next Program: Hh and Heart.
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Felt Pizza

I made a felt pizza after being inspired by Serving Pink Lemonade.



R loved this and played with it for days. One day when we were playing, I asked him to make me a specific pizza with ham and pineapple on it. This is what he made me:



I then asked for capsicum, onion and olives.



Next was pepperoni, pineapple and mushrooms.



We had lots of fun making pizza. Next time, I think I will introduce numbers with this activity. I will ask for a pizza with 4 olives, 2 mushrooms and 1 piece of pineapple. He will be able to create and work on numbers and counting skills at the same time!

Alphabet Match and Stick

I was sorting through some old scrapbooking materials to see what R could use for his activities when I came across a sheet of die cut letters. I came up with a matching activity where R has to find the letter and stick it onto a sheet with the letters of the alphabet written on it.

I encouraged him to lay out a few letters and match them to the sheet. 

He completed this with little assistance (I had to help with the a and the g, because the die cuts were quite different to the letters that I wrote). He amazed me again with his letter recognition skills.