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.

Summer...in February?

About a week ago I spent the day with Bo and Amelia. 

 She got up and had some breakfast.

 After Bo finally got around and dressed he did some Color Wonder. I absolutely love Color Wonder. It is right up there with play dough.

 Gus was worn out, the poor puppy.

 Bo did some play dough. I brought Cookie Monster. He added some dinosaurs and cars to the mix.

 Play dough is the bomb!

 Since last time Sis had play dough she ate it and shared with the dog, I let her play with her box. It is the shoebox size tub with a little bit of water and some big animals. Her box was meant to be mouth safe.

 She liked the water!

 She kept kissing the frogs. FYI none of them turned into a prince.

 Bo realized that she was playing with her "special surprise" and investigated it too.

 Then since it was about 60 degrees outside we went to the park. Bo and I played ball, hide and seek, and he gathered up a large pile of sticks.

 Sis was not sure about walking on the grass, so she spent a lot of time chasing me down trying to get picked up.

 We went back to the house and Bo rode his scooter. He would get "stuck" and shout for help. Amelia would go "help" him out.  Too cute!

 Both kids at lunch then slept for FOUR hours! Bo told me that I made him exhausted. When he got up he painted/dipped some coffee filter flowers for his mom.

 He realized that we made a BOuquet and thought that is was hilarious.

 For his box I picked out anything I had that could be in the ocean.

He was thrilled! He played for at least an hour.

He now enjoys small world play.

Sis played with her box again. It ended with her dumping the water on herself, but she had fun!