Playdoh and Dry Pasta

This is a good activity for a 1.5 year old. I only had to tell her twice that, "playdoh is not food so we don't put it in our mouth." I used adjectives to describe the playdoh as she played...

Soft

Squishy

Purple

Yellow

Flat

Smooth

She loved it! Have fun!

Yours Truly

Fun with Flowers

Hope everyone had a great Mother's Day! My sweet mother sent me these beautiful flowers and as they began to wilt AK and I decided to have some fun with them!

First, using contact paper we made a pretty flower petal collage to hang on our back door.

We added the leftover flowers to the water play bucket and made flower soup! :)

Till next time....

Yours Truly 

Tulip Sensory

When my red tulips from Valentine's day started to fall over I decided it was time for AK (16 months) to do some sensory playing. I cut them off and put them in a bin and let her explore the texture, fragrance, and colors.

You can just see the little gears turning. This is a fun age!

Yours Truly

Color in a Bag

From what I hear from others, my addiction to Pinterest is quite common. There for I am coining this phase for all us pinheads...As seen on Pinterest (ASOP).

So ASOP I did the "Color in a Bag" activty with AK.

The point of this activity is for toddlers to smack, poke, and pound this concoction till the colors mix to make one new color. Well AK didn't get to that point on her own. I had to help her. 

She did enjoy playing with it. I think it is a great sensory activity for the littlest of toddlers. 

Here is the recipe to create this cornstarch mixture. Pretty easy to make and clean up was not to bad.

Happy playing!

Yours Truly 

Materials

• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 cups cold water

• Food coloring
• 2 gallon-size ziplock bags
• Duct tape

Instructions

1. Over medium heat, combine the cornstarch, sugar, and water in a saucepan, stirring continuously.
2. Once the mixture begins to thicken, remove the pan from the heat and stir for another minute or so until it thickens to a pudding like consistency. Let it cool for 30 minutes.
3. Spoon the mixture into two bowls, stir a few drops of food coloring into each (we used red and yellow), then divide the colors between the ziplock bags. Seal the bags with duct tape and let your child mix and mash the colors (they'll keep for up to a week).
   
   
   
   
   
   

Pumpkin Carving 2011

 Yay! Daddy came home early from work so we could carve our pumpkin! AK watched her daddy carve out the top and empty the pumpkin guts. She had played with the pulp and seeds. She even tasted the pulp and did not like it so she decided she had enough of that.

Mommy and Daddy each drew a jack o' lantern face and we held them both up for AK to decide which one we would carve.

She picked mommy's!!!

Daddy carved out the face and AK and mommy watched.

We had so much fun!!!

 Look how great our jack o' lantern looks!!!

See ya later! 

Yours Truly

Sensory Play: Cooked Pasta

We got a little bored on this rainy Monday and decided to do some sensory play. This time we used cooked fettuccine. 

Avery played for about 10minutes before she started throwing the pasta on the floor. I loved seeing the little gears turning as she played. So worth it!

Yours Truely

What we have been up to...

Our computer crashed and we had to send it back to the manufacture to be fixed. So here is what we have been up to the past few weeks.

Avery played dress up...

And tried raspberries for the first time...

I dabbled in some extreme couponing and got all this for $11.83. A total savings of $20.80.

Avery had a playdate with her first cousin, Ellie, who is only two days older than her.

I painted an old mirror that I inherited from my grandmother. I have big plans for this mirror. I hope to turn it in to a dress-up mirror for the play room.

Avery saw a catapillar for the first time.

I made a sensory box for AK. I filled it with items from the dollar store that had different textures (i.e. soft, squishy, rough, bumpy). I spent less than $8 on it. As she gets older I will fill the box with other sensory items for her to investigate.

We have had playdates and met new friends. So much fun! I am glad to be back blogging. Talk to you soon.

Yours Truely