Tot School

Hunter is 15 months old

Our focus this week was still on the color green and our theme was Easter.

I made this little box using a shoe box- I just cut some holes and added the colored tape just to make the holes stand out a little bit.

Then I gave Hunter some items to put into the holes- this kept his attention for a pretty long time.

I cut up paper towel tubes and put them into a muffin tin and put it down on the floor (idea from Pinterest).  Hunter went over to it and sat by it, but didn’t know what to think of it.

Once I started taking some out he joined in and took them out and put them back in.

He tried really hard to put the tube back together.  This only kept his attention for a short time.

Hunter practiced coloring with a green crayon.

He liked making it roll, he thought that was fun.

We made this adorable little green frog (see full post here).

After doing lots of practicing the color green, I think Hunter gets it.  On Saturday I asked him to give me a green toy- he went and looked through his toys and found a green toy for me.  Then I had him do it again, giving a green toy to Hailey and then one to Rich.  I was so excited!

We also made this really cute Easter Eggs (that I found on Pinterest) using strips of scrap paper.  (See the full post here.)

This is Hunter’s completed egg, he put the strips down just how he wanted.

We also made Easter Eggs by putting painters tape onto a piece of paper…

Then Hunter colored it with wet chalk (idea from Pinterest).  When we took the tape off it made a really cute design.  (See full post here.)

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Tot School

Hunter is 15 months old

Our theme this week was the color green and St. Patrick’s Day

 I put yellow and blue paint in a Ziploc bag and then used painter’s tape to stick it on the table.  I also covered the seal of the Ziploc bag with packaging tape for some extra reinforcement to make sure it stayed shut.

 Hunter thought it was great!

 Hailey joined us with her own bag and practiced writing some words on hers.

 Hunter loved playing with his!

Hunter made a picture using a green do-a-dot marker.  He loves using these and is never happy when it’s time to put them away.

Hailey had fun making a rainbow.

Hunter was really into our art projects this week and had a blast doing all of them!

We made a puffy paint shamrock (see the full post here) and Hunter had so much fun and made a nice big mess.

 The green collage shamrock turned out cute (see full post here).

Hunter had fun making his pot of gold too (see full post here).

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Saint Patrick’s Day Fun

Here is a quick look back at our week and all of the fun St. Patrick’s Day activities we did, with links to the original posts.

 We made Collage Shamrocks.

Our Puffy Paint Shamrocks turned out so cute!

 Hailey had a lot of making this End of the Rainbow craft.

Hunter had fun making this Pot of Gold (and also eating the paint!).

 We made green Discovery Bottles filled with different St. Patrick’s Day items and green materials.

Hunter loves his Shamrock Suncatcher that he made.

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Puffy Paint Shamrock

Puffy Paint is so much fun!  Messy- yes, but worth the fun!

You need glue, green paint and shaving cream.  We also had a paper plate to mix everything on and a shamrock shape.  I used a cereal box to cut out the shamrock so that it would be a little sturdier.

Mix the shaving cream, glue and paint.  I have also used food coloring to color the puffy paint, but it stains the skin and takes a while to come off, so I prefer to use paint.

Mix it all together.

Let the fun begin 🙂

Yay!  Hunter loved it!!

Hailey worked very carefully on her shamrock.

Hunter painted his tummy while I was taking a picture of Hailey’s work.

Hailey’s completed shamrock.  When it dries the paint stays puffy and it so neat!

Hunter’s completed shamrock… He played with his paint so much that it lost its puffiness, which is fine because he had fun.  But if you want it to stay puffy don’t play with it too much.

See the rest of our St. Patrick’s Day activities that we have done.

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