Hot Glue Painting

This was an easy painting idea that Hailey and Hunter both enjoyed.

First I wrote Hunter’s name on a piece of cardboard using a hot glue gun.  It didn’t turn out super cute looking, but it worked for doing some just-for-fun painting.  Hunter liked feeling his name.

Since Hunter is learning the color yellow, I gave him some yellow paint and a sponge brush and let him paint.

I would add just a tiny bit of paint to the bowl and he would paint with it.  This kept his attention for a very long time.

When Hailey saw Hunter’s finished art work she wanted to make one too.

 Hunter’s finished picture.

Hailey’s finished picture.

Rainsticks

Since spring is here (on the calendar anyway) we made some rainsticks today.  I figured if it’s going to rain we might as well make a craft about it.  And really, I would take the rain over the snow!

 Hailey and Hunter decorated paper towel tubes with stickers.

I cut out circles from construction paper to put over the ends.  We covered one end with the paper, secured it with a rubber band and then wrapped yarn around it to cover up the rubber band.  Then we put cheerios inside the tube and covered the other end.

Hunter playing with his rainstick.

Hailey’s completed rainstick.

Tot School

Hunter is 15 1/2 months old

It was a busy week at Tot School last week.  The week started with the stomach bug for Hunter, add some yucky stress and worry about other stuff, preparations for Easter, then the week ended with the stomach bug for Hailey.  It was not a week I want to repeat.  But we did manage to get some Tot School done.  Our theme for the week was Easter.

Our mall has this little soft play area that Hunter enjoys playing in.

We had to go to the mall a couple of times last week, so Hunter had a lot of fun playing in the play area!

Hunter loved playing with the plastic Easter eggs.  He would put them in the egg carton…

…dump them out and repeat.

Hunter loves water play, so he had a great time playing with his eggs in the water.  It’s really not that messy if you only use a small amount of water and most kids love it.  This kept his attention for a long time!

We put some macaroni into a couple of the eggs and then I taped them shut.

Hunter loved shaking his noisy eggs.

Rolling the eggs down the ramp.

Of course we dyed Easter eggs, which Hunter really loved!

And then he squished his egg apart.

Hunter made this cute Little Chick.  (See full post here.)

He also made the Empty Tomb.  (See full post here.)

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The Empty Tomb

In celebration of Easter, here is the activity we did today:

You’ll need:  construction paper for the background, a tree, grass, tomb, stone to roll away, black circle, glue and something to put on your tree.

Hailey adding some grass while I read the story of Easter.

Hunter colored his paper first and then I helped him put it together.  He added the flowers to the tree.

Hunter’s finished picture

Hailey’s finished picture