Here’s a little recap of the week. I am excited to
continue to plan and come up with new weekly projects. I’ve been scouring
Pinterest, other Mommy blogs, and even got some fun idea from the Oriental
Trading catalog!
Tuesday:
It was very, very hot and humid, so our outside play was
limited to about thirty minutes after breakfast. Before we went outside, we
read our book of the week “Alligator Alphabet”. Once outside, we drew a big A
on the pavement and doodled things that started with the letter A. After snack,
we painted our Alligator A’s with green water colors. After our naps, we played
instruments, danced and did our “exercises”, and then colored some pictures of
things that start with the letter A. Not being able to go outside again made us
all a little nuts.
Wednesday:
The weather was slightly more bearable today so we were
able to be back on our normal routine. We ate breakfast, got dressed, and had
our vitamins. (Our new incentive for Lily to dress herself comes in the form of
a gummy vitamin. If she can undress herself and redress herself as best she can
without whining, she gets her vitamin). We took our stroller walk and looked
for things that were red or started with the letter A, as well as our usual
list of trucks, busses, dogs, Cookie Monster eyes (what Lily calls two adapters
on the Verizon building we pass), and airplanes.
Since they were very well behaved on the walk, we stopped
at the park across the street to play on the swings and then we explored the
huge soccer field, looking for acorns. After we collected a few, we headed back
to the house to play in the sandbox. A meltdown or two occur in between the
sandbox and our project time, but that’s about par for the course. We glued red
tissue paper squares onto our apples. It was fun to see the two different ages
with two different techniques. Tristan threw all his tissue paper on top of the
glue, while Lily carefully placed each piece one by one on her apple.
We got another day of pool time, popsicles, and a wagon
ride in! That helped to break up the afternoon a little better.
Thursday:
It was slightly warmer this morning, but we still went on
a walk and looked for things that were red. I actually had forgotten I said
that we’d be looking for red things until Lily started pointing out red signs,
flowers, and cars. Proud (space cadet) mom moment right there. We played in the
sandbox, and drew some more pictures with sidewalk chalk of things that start
with the Letter A. Then two very large daddy long legs appeared in our play
area and we moved our playtime to inside.
Today’s project was ‘painting’ the letter A with rice. I
drew a few lines with Elmer’s glue and gave them each a pile of rice. Today,
Lily chose to pick up big handfuls and sprinkle them on the glue trails, where
Tristan picked up each piece of rice individually and placed it on the glue.
Lily and Tristan went swimming in the afternoon and ate
some homemade popsicles while I paced back and forth waiting for those spiders
to return. We had a Code Brown in the pool times two, which was just the icing
on the cake of the afternoon I was having. Deep breaths and some laughter
helped me to not completely lose it and hide in a dark corner.
Friday:
It’s another warm and muggy day today, so we opted for
some outside play after breakfast and took a short wagon ride. When we came
inside, I asked if they wanted snack or to do a project, and they picked the
project!
Originally I was going to cut an apple in half and show them how to
use it as a stamp, but I forgot to grab an extra apple at the store and I found
these chunky stamps my mom had given me. Conveniently, two were shaped as
apples. I dipped each one in paint and showed them each how to stamp on their
papers. They got a little crazy and ended up ‘painting’ with the stamps but I just
let them do their thing.
We played with dress up clothes, and had a little snack. Right now they're snoozing and I am brainstorming ideas for more fun and easy projects!
Happy Friday!
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