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This Monday's craft was a butterfly. I got the bingo daubers from the Dollar Tree and they were well worth it.

"I am a beautiful beautiful butterfly."

While Sis took a nap we went outside to burn off some energy.

Last week Bo requested an ocean box, so here it is. We played with both boxes for a long time on Tuesday.

He later requested boats and more sea creatures.

Sissy had finger paint. I used a recipe I found on Pinterest that was edible.

 Bo and I made Oreo balls while Amelia napped on Tuesday. You basically put a package of Oreos in the blender. Take a few out and put in a bowl. Put a package of cream cheese in the blender and mix everything up. Roll it into balls and roll the balls in the Oreo crumbs set aside in the bowl. Refrigerate and devour. 

 We played with them on Tuesday and Wednesday because both kids slept all afternoon on Monday.

 Wednesday I gave Amelia different colors.

They were fun too.

While I got some lunch ready I let Sis play with some sensory bags, bottles, and balloons.  

I will do a post about them later.

Wednesday we spend the day at Wildcat Park. We visited the Audubon Center and talked about lots of animals native to this area. Then we hit the trail. I made little backpack for Bo to carry. I found binoculars, a magnifying glass, a fan, and a water bottle with a snack compartment for him. We got back to the car in time to go to the spring. We all waded in the freezing cold water. We spent a good two and a half hours at the park. After Amelia's swim lesson both kids fell asleep in the car. Bo asked if we could do it again...on Monday.

The lapbook was an ocean theme to match the sensory box.

I helped him with this, but you match the word with the picture.

This is another set of beginning sounds.

He sorted these animals into the land and ocean rectangles on the center section of the lapbook.

 There were some ocean words to trace.

 Here was our little counting book.

 We read the numbers in Spanish, since that was our Spanish lesson this week.

3-2-1 Blast Off

This was the first week that I got to watch Bo and Amelia! Each week Bo will have a small world play box, while Amelia gets a simple sensory box. Bo will also have a lapbook with the same theme as his box. It will have little games and activities to help him with writing, reading, and our Spanish lesson. Each week we will have some simple Spanish vocab we talk about and play games with. On Mondays Bo and I will do a craft. Tuesdays we will make a tasty treat. Every other Wednesday we will go somewhere and on the others we will do an activity. To fill our time I have made busy bags and file folder games. I will make separate posts for them.

 This was Bo's Space box. The base is aquarium rocks. I added a space Toob and some glow in the dark planets from the Dollar Tree.

 He didn't play as much as he asked questions about space things.

Amelia got a rice box. The trick was keeping the rice controlled.

Monday morning we went to the park. Both kids enjoyed themselves, obviously.

Later that afternoon it rained. Sissy just stood and jumped the puddle.

Bo ran a race, while I timed him.

Then I took the freezing cold little boogers inside.

This was Bo's activity of the day. I found 2 teeny tiny clay pots that he painted blue and I glued together. I cut our some teeth, a tail, and a fin from foam. He helped glue everything on to make this terrifying little shark.

Tuesday Bo had school and then went to have some special time with his grandma, so Sissy and I had some girl time. She played with her box for the longest time. (I figured out how to control the rice : D)

She particularly like scooping it into the pool and rolling in it.

On Wednesday Bo and I made Rainbow Foam with Sis had a snack. We put 2T of dish soap,  1/4 C of water and food coloring into the mixer and put it on high. We did a batch for each color. Bo really liked to watch it grow.

 Waiting on some toys to come plow through the foam mountains.

 There they are!

 Since we didn't get to do our Tuesday activity we did it on Wednesday while Amelia took a nap. We used candy melts and sprinkles to make these ever so tasty candy spoons.

 This is the lapbook of the week.

Here is the inside. I found all of these things online, printed them off, and laminated them. 

 This is the shadow match.

He circled the beginning sound with a dry erase marker. There are four more words on the back. I laminated them together to save laminator sheets.

I modified these slightly. I typed the English and Spanish colors on them, since this weeks Spanish was all about colors. These are also double sided.

Some double sided space words to read and write.

This was just practicing fine motor control to get prepared to write.

The one thing I don't have a picture of is our Spanish game. I laminated colored sheets of paper. I scattered them out in the floor. I went through the colors as I laid them down. I then called out a color and he would run and jump on the correct paper. After a minute we switched rolls, so that he had a chance to say the colors too. He really like this game and we played for about 10 minutes on Monday. On the other days we used the rockets in the lapbook.

Moving Day!

It was moving day for these 6 kiddos. While the grown-ups moved we all played in the front yard. I basically set up little stations with a variety of activities.

We had a playdough stations with lots of cookie cutters.

 This was the favorite station by far. I had cloud dough with some cups, bowls, and spoons.

 This is where Beckham played the entire time. It was the Angry Birds game I made last summer.

 I also had chalk and bubbles, but they didn't get used very much.

Then everybody went to sleep.

Happy National Pig Day!

Once again I got to go spend the day with these goobers.

 Miss Amelia loved her boat box.

 Drew and Bo enjoyed some playdough.

 Bo liked making tracks in it.

Since it was National Pig Day we celebrated with a craft. I printed out the pig template that I found online. Bo did all the coloring, cutting, and gluing. Then I helped him write his name and National Pig Day. He was very proud to have done it by himself.

Here is his box. It has lizards and snakes. The base is water, half marbles, and clear water beads. The lizards ate some of the water beads and marbles. Both Drew and Bo played in the box.