Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin

I saw this idea over at No Time for Flashcards a while ago and thought it looked cute and simple.  My favorite things 🙂

First I cut some scrapbook paper into hearts.

Then I printed pictures of our family members onto card stock and cut those into hearts.

I mixed those in a plastic bin with some fake flower petals.  Hunter studied it for a bit.

Then he started looking at the pictures of the family members.

Of course, he dumped the whole bin 🙂

Then he sang the “Clean Up” song while putting all the pieces back.  He was funny because when we finished putting all the pieces back in he kept saying “Da-da” and “Hay-Yee” until I took Daddy and Hailey’s pictures back out of the bin.  He did not want those in the bin with the rest, hahaha.

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 🙂