Valentine’s Day Fun for Toddlers

Here are a couple of super easy and fun ideas to do with your toddlers.

I cut out a piece of contact paper in the shape of a heart and taped it down to the table.  Hunter thought it was very interesting that his hands were sticking to it.

Then he added some red tissue paper to it.  He eventually lost interest and since he was sitting at the table he decided he should have a snack instead and started signing “more eat.”  So while he had some fruit I finished the heart 🙂

Once it was done I put contact paper on the other side of the tissue paper and hung it up on our deck door.

Hunter loves going over and looking at it!  He has tried a few times to take it down, but I told him to leave it there and he has been listening.

We also made a Valentine’s Day Discovery bottle:

I used pink shampoo and some purple hearts.  The purple hearts are something I found in the dollar bins at Target a couple of years ago, but you could use anything.  Don’t forget to use a hot glue gun to secure the top on the bottle.

Hunter loves watching it.

He waits for it to get to the other end then flips it back over to do it again.

Both activities were easy and there was no mess… that’s my kind of fun 🙂

Tot School

Hunter is 13.5 months old

We had another fun week of Tot School!  This was our last week of our farm animal theme.

Hunter enjoyed listening to the sounds the different animals make.  When it sings the song “Old MacDonald” Hunter sings along and says “E-I-E-I-O!”

Hunter made this cute footprint pig, you can see the original post here.

He also made this handprint chicken, you can see the original post here.

We practiced finding the parts of the face in this book full of baby faces.  Hunter loves this book!

We also practiced body parts using Mr. Potato head.

I used this old container and cut some holes in the lid and then had Hunter put pom poms in the holes.  (I saw this on someone else’s blog and I can not remember where I saw it to give them the credit :-()  He studied it for a while before trying it out.

It took him several tries to get the pom poms into the holes.

Once he finally did it, he was very proud of himself!
This kept his attention for a long time!!  He did it over and over again and was so happy when he got them into the holes.
(Make sure you keep a close eye on your children when doing this so that they don’t put the pom poms into their mouths.)

Hunter also had a lot of fun playing with bubbles, you can see the original post here.

The cow had a lot of fun in  the bubbles too.

This is not really tot school, but this week my little man cub grew up 🙁  He got his first hair cut.  He definitely looks more like a toddler and less like a baby now.

Before… trying to figure out what the hair dresser was doing,

Sad little boy

After a while he just sat quietly and let her cut his hair.

All done!

Looking all grown up.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots have been up to this last week.

Fun With Bubbles

Hunter enjoyed his first sensory bin today.  I made some bubbles in a shallow bin for him to play in.  I just mixed water and Dawn dish detergent, then I drained the water out of the bin so that only the bubbles were left.

I set it up on the kitchen floor with a towel underneath it.  When I told Hunter to come sit down and see what we were going to do, he surprised me and followed my directions.  Just in the last week he has really started to follow directions (when he wants to, ha!).

At first he wouldn’t touch the bubbles, which surprised me because he loves bubbles in the bath tub.  Hailey had to put her hand in the bin and then put some on his hands before he would play with it.

Checking out the bubbles on his hands.

Ready to dig in on his own.

Since he’s been learning about farm animals I gave him a cow to play with in the bubbles, which actually helped keep him sitting down for a while.

This activity held his attention for a while, but eventually he just wanted to run away with the bin 🙂