Virtual Book Club : Julia Donaldson

As part of the virtual book club we picked up two books by Julia Donaldson from the library. The Gruffalo (the most popular book by this author i guess) and  One Ted Falls Out Of Bed(Its a rythemic counting book about a sleeping child's teddy bear who falls off the bed and cant climb back so he plays around with cars and balloons and all the other toys in the room but he misses his bed and soon the boy wakes up and pulls him back in bed)

My daughter couldn't get enough of her Ted book. We had the book for 3 weeks and every single day we were reading TED. So i decided to do a lil reenactment of the story. I printed out some characters from the Internet, put out some of her cars and blocks and we spent a great time playing around with them.

The other book was Gruffallo. I made some finger puppets using the character printouts and some matching game cards.

 My daughter didn't play much with the puppets but loved the matching game. It was her first time playing the game and she enjoyed it every bit.

 

We played it a couple of times and she got exited every time she found a match:)

 

 



St Patrick's Day Sensory Bin

St Patrick's Day is soon approaching so i thought it was a good opportunity to teach my daughter about the color Green. She cant recognize her colors yet..i am working on it. Whenever you ask her about a color she says its blue.I try not to compare her with other kids who all know the the colors of the rainbow:)
Anyway..teaching about the color Green with a St Patrick's Day Sensory Bin.
I started by showing her a green crayon and cucumber and asked her to help me find things around the house that match their color..she wasn't interested much. She just walked with me and watched while i gathered all the green stuff.
We collected it all in a pan (i have to get a suitable plastic box for these activities..its on my list) and we were all set for the activity.

I used some green split lentils, green glass beads, plastic cookie cutters, green cup, spoons, soft pretend vegetables and a green painted bottle which was part of her birthday craft.

She started by using a spoon to put lentils in the glass.

Then she used the spoon to put lentils in the bottle.

 She then wanted to fill the glass by putting lentils in the bottle cap and then putting them in the glass.

After this she wanted to explore with her hands and you can see that she removed everything from the pan one by one..the beads the alphabets. She just wanted to play with the lentils.

After playing with them for a long time..she discovered another game..rolling of the beads.

We spent a good half an hour with this activity which was great. We will be doing some more sensory bins soon..till then..bye!

Indoor Snowman

As much as we are awaiting spring and summer its never easy to resist playing in the snow when there is so much of it around you. We had a snow storm last week so we got involved in our favourite winter activity..making snowmen!
My daughter said 'its too cold outside' but she still wanted to make a snowman so we got the snow inside and made little snowmen just like i saw them here.
I got some snow from outside in a baking pan,set it down on a kitchen towel on the floor and we were ready to make our snowmen.

We used cloves for eyes, cereal and dried cranberries for nose and socks as hats.

 



Don't they look adorable?!!?!!

We later went outside to make a big snowman but my daughter preferred to stay inside and watch mama papa because she thought it was too cold outside. You can see her standing in our patio door in the pic below.

 

Hope its our last snowman of this winter..we are now eagerly awaiting spring.

Apple Painting

After celebrating Dr Seuss birthday at the book store the other day we did some activities at home.
Now my DD hasn't read 'Ten Apples up on Top' yet(we are still on the nose and foot book) but i thought a simple activity with apples would be fun.
So we first used apples as our blocks and tried making a tower which was really hard.

 

 

Later i asked her if she wanted to do some painting using apples instead of brushes and she was up for it so we did some apple painting:)

 

She couldn't resist putting her hands in the paint..she loves to make a hand print whenever we are painting.

 

Very quickly she covered 2-3 sheets with her apple prints.

 

 

After she was done painting it was snack time and we ate APPLES! Art made the apple good enough to eat:)

 



Messy fun is always a hit with toddlers.
I will be back with some St Patricks Day activities soon..till then..Bye!

 

 

Happy Birthday Dr Suess

So it was Dr Suess' birthday yesterday and to celebrate the occassion we took our DD to a special storytime at Barnes and Nobles.They read two of his very famous books 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham' which all the kids enjoyed.

 

They had various activities after the storytime including making Dr Suess hats..coloring green eggs and sticking them on a plate with the ham..making wocket in a pocket and there were many coloring pages.

 

 

Below you can see my daughter trying to make her wocket in the pocket.

 

 



 

She had fun during this special birthday celebration. We later did some Dr Suess themed activities after coming back home..will post about them soon:)

 

 

 

Making Snowman:)

Kids love making snowman with the real snow as much as they do with a glue stick..yes..a glue stick!
I made this discovery the other day when i gave my DD some cut outs to make a paper snowman and a glue stick in her hands for the first time and she had a gala time.

 

She couldn't put the glue properly, i helped her with it but she enjoyed the whole process of gluing and sticking. I am sure next time she would want to use the scissors and make the cut outs herself.

Proudly posing with her snowman below..both real and paper:)

 

 

 

 

 

Sticker Activities

So its still February..the month of love:)
We didn't do any special activities for valentines day which was all my fault(had planned a lot of activities but didn't get around doing any of those) which was bad..so i thought i should not leave the love theme all together and gave this little activity to my DD who loves stickers like any other toddler. So i gave her a piece of paper with hearts drawn all over it, gave her some heart shaped stickers and told her to put stickers and cover the hearts on paper.



A small but fun activity..something that can keep your toddler busy when you just need those 5 minutes to finish something you started...:)