This afternoon we played the game From Head to Toe that is based on the same book by Eric Carle.  I was watching a friend’s boys who are just a little bit younger than both of my kids.  It was a big hit with all the kids, even though the other boys were able to follow the directions better.  The younger kids were mostly just along for the ride Can you wiggle your hips? Can you bend your neck? Can {Read More}

please ignore my horribly dirty kitchen floor I really wanted to tackle the pile of dishes to be handwashed in my sink this weekend.  Little One was having a needy day though so I knew the only way to accomplish the task at hand was to get her busy with a new activity.  I chose the pipe cleaner stuffing activity this time.  I’ve been collecting oatmeal, grits and pringles cans and have punched various sized holes in the lids with {Read More}

This weekend was a struggle for me.  I was sick all weekend and my husband had to work both days. Little One was especially frustrated with my lack of energy and patience. I was determined to get the kitchen tidied so I set her up with a tray, cup of beans/lentils, a scooper and a small jar. Her task was to use the scooper to put all the beans into the jar.  She really just wanted to use her hands.   {Read More}

We’ve had a fairly busy schedule the past couple of weeks and have been doing a lot of yard work, so there haven’t been too many times that a preschool busy activity was needed.  Little Turkey does a lot of puzzles, so that’s usually been the activity of choice for busy moments lately.  He works 48 pc. puzzles too quickly, so when I need to keep him busy for more than 5 minutes I’ll give him a 78-100 pc. puzzle  {Read More}

Last week ended up being a fairly busy week so little Turkey mostly worked puzzles during his educational playtime.  He’s been doing more and more constructing with his Trio blocks-which we’re thrilled about.  He had a friend over to play yesterday and didn’t want to cook!  I think it might have been because he didn’t want to share his big kitchen set though LOL. Yesterday I had him sort these chipboard letters.  First he matched all the letters (I’m not {Read More}

This activity wasn’t something I planned.  It just sort of happened.  Little Turkey enjoyed the bead stringing so much that he’s been asking to do it again.  My next plan for the beads had been to have him string the beads into a pattern, but I felt like I needed to give him a smaller amount of beads with enough to make a definite pattern.  I was working on sorting them by shape and color and he asked to help.  {Read More}