Tot School

Hunter is 16 months old.

Hunter was sick again this week so we didn’t do a whole lot of Tot School.  We did still manage to do a few activities. We finished up the color yellow this week and also stared a space theme.

Hunter is constantly taking my aluminum foil out of the cupboard, so I decided to just give him a piece to play with to see if that would satisfy his curiosity.

Hunter played with some cooked spaghetti- this didn’t keep his attention for very long.  At first he didn’t want to touch it and when he finally did he only played with it for a few minutes.

He also used the spaghetti to paint with.  This was definitely more interesting to him.  He loves to paint!

For our space theme Hunter made a rocket ship using his name.

It turned out really cute, you can see the full post here.

We made a really fun sun- Hunter loved it!!

I love how the suns turned out!!  You can see the full post here.

We also took a little trip to the moon 🙂 and brought back some moon sand that Hunter enjoyed playing with.  You can see the full post for that here.

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Moon Sand

We are doing a theme about space right now, so we pretended that we took a little trip to the moon.  While we were there we found some moon sand to bring back to earth with us.  Just in case you aren’t able to go all the way to the moon, here is how you make some moon sand right at home 😉

All you need is sand, cornstarch and water.
(Hunter had been sick all week or I would have bought some regular colored sand.  Since he wasn’t feeling up to going out to the store to get sand I just used what we had here- and it just so happened to be blue.)

Mix together:
3 cups of sand
1 1/2 cups of cornstarch
3/4 cups of water

Stir it all up

Finished moon sand.  I really like how the moon sand feels.  I don’t like how regular sand feels, but this is different and not as messy as regular sand.  I still kept it outside, of course.

Hunter played with our moon sand.

Hailey loved the moon sand- she has played with it for hours!!

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Tot School

Hunter is 14 months old

We had a fun week at Tot School this week!  Here’s a peek at some of the things we did:

We made a Valentine’s Day sensory bin that included pictures of our family on heart shaped card stock and some fake rose petals.

Hunter loved seeing the pictures of our family!  (See original post here.)

Hunter used a heart shaped cookie cutter to make some heart prints.  (Original post here.)

Hunter made this cute Valentine that says “I love you to pieces.”  (Original post here.)

Hunter is also learning the color red, so we had a red sensory bin. (Original post here.)

I made this so Hunter could practice his fine motor skills.  I just put a little hole in the bottom of each spot on the egg carton and put red pipe cleaner through each hole.

He’s not ready to try to put the pipe cleaner in through the holes yet.  That was too hard and just made him frustrated.  He handed it to me and wanted me to do it.

He did like pulling the pieces out though and worked on it for several minutes (which is a long time in toddler time).

 Hunter also colored for the first time this week.  He seemed to enjoy it and was very proud of himself once he finally figured out how to do it.  (Original post here.)

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Fun with Red

Hunter is learning the color red, so I made this red sensory bin for him.  I didn’t think I was going to be able to find much red stuff, but after less than 5 minutes of walking around our family room I was able to fill the bin.

Hunter loved playing with everything in the bin.  The best part seemed to be trying to see which items he could fit inside of other items.

I stacked some blocks and Hunter added to the top.

Hailey got home from school while we were playing with the sensory bin, so Hunter was done with the bin.  Playing with his big sister is definitely his favorite thing to do!

I saw these cute “crayons” for toddlers, so I thought it would be fun for Hunter to use them.

He didn’t think it was fun though and it just frustrated him.  Then the crayon kept falling out, so I just gave him the crayon to write with.

He has never used a crayon before, so of course he had to taste it.
I showed him several times what to do with it, but he was more interested in shaking the crayon than trying to color with it.  I didn’t think he was going to color, so I turned around to get our next activity ready.  When I turned back around he was coloring 🙂

Hunter working on coloring a picture.

(My opinion- don’t waste your money on those cute “crayons.”)