Monday, August 26, 2013

Keepin' Busy Alphabet Style

When I decided that I was going to stay at home, I wanted to make sure we had enough crafts, activities, and outings planned to keep the kiddos (and me) busy. I researched and came up with a lesson plan for each day with busy activities, educational activities, and even messy activities... I found a lot of these ideas off of a great website: Hands On As We Grow

Day 1:
- Solo cups are your toddlers best friend! Stack 'em, knock 'em over, kick 'em!! Let them go crazy!
- Pipe cleaners plus a colander...Nuff said.

#sahm


Day 2:
Bees are for 'B'!
-Fly Swatter painting! My favorite activity so far! Got the swatters from the dollar store and let them go to town swatting bee stickers on butcher paper with paint! All washable paint of course.



Day 3:
Buh buh buh B for Balloons!
- Just blowing up balloons provided hours of entertainment! We played 'don't let it touch the floor'...clever name I know. 

- Fingerprint Balloons. My 19 mos old wont touch the paint, so he had fun just playing with the yarn and the glue. My 3 year old went to town on the fingerprints, but had a hard time gluing down the yarn for the balloon string.
BALLOONS!

Day 4:
'C' is for Cupcake.
- Not sure if you know, or if this was just news to me, but Barnes and Noble does a great weekly storytime!  Kingston loves it, and Kace enjoyed hanging out on stage...always has to be the center of attention!
- I had Kingston help me make cupcakes.  He counted the eggs, helped me stir, and of course devoured them.


Day 5:
Ribbon Painting and 'C' Review
- take some old ribbon lying around, and dip it in washable paint, and have them throw it at the paper.  Kingston only did this about twice before he asked for the fly swatters again!


Ribbon Painting


Day 6:
'D' is for Digging for Dinosaurs
-I bought some dollar store dinosaur toys and froze them in tupperware.  The kiddos had a really hard time digging out the dino, but enjoyed gradually watching it melt in our 108 degree weather.  Next time, less ice, more dino...
Dino Excavation

Day 7:
'E' is for Elephant
- Had an outing at the zoo to go see some live elephants.


2 comments:

luv2beanana said...

What an awesome mommy. Those boys are so lucky to have you home and so involved. Love you babe!

Christy G said...

This looks like a lot of fun. I am starting preschool activities for my toddler and will have to try some of these things.