George Washington

 Since it was President’s Day, Hailey did some activities about George Washington.  She made this book about George Washington, we read a lot information about him and she answered some questions about what we read.  Then Hailey made this Craftivity I found at A Cupcake for the Teacher.  I changed ours a little bit by using cotton for his hair, but it’s the same basic idea.

Hailey had a lot of fun making this.

We had also talked about Abraham Lincoln so we reviewed a little about what we had learned about him.

Then we made a Venn Diagram about the two presidents.

Hailey also made this paper about what she would do if she were the president.  She wrote; “I would… help people get out of serious fights and tell my mom and dad all the secrets.”

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.)

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

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.”)

I Love You to Pieces

 Hunter made this cute little Valentine’s Day heart:

I ripped up red, pink and purple paper.  Then I put glue on the heart and he stuck the pieces on. He really liked doing it and seemed to really understand what he was supposed to do.  He was a little upset that he couldn’t be in charge of the glue stick, but other than that he had a lot of fun.

Hunter stuck the “I love you to pieces” heart on and then I brushed mod podge glue over the whole thing to make sure the construction paper would stay on.

Super easy and perfect for the Valentine of his choice 🙂