Saturday, July 30, 2011

Building Fun With Daddy

 

This past  week I hit the bi-annual Target toy sale. This is such a fun sale to stock up  my birthday party closet, Christmas gifts…and a great time to buy toys we can give at Christmas time to kids on the Angel Tree!

I also like to find a few  activity type things to put away for a rainy  HOT day!

I found this (for $2.50!) and knew it would be a perfect rainy HOT day activity!

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As an added bonus this is a 100% “Daddy will love it” activity too!

As soon as Daddy walked in the door, the kids were jumping up and down with their kits!” Daddy was a good sport  and dove right into the project with them!

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Daddy showing Levi how to cut his “wood”

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The finished boat…..

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Next up…..Jet….

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Ready to fly!

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While the boys built with Daddy, I helped Ava with her choice….thankfully it was super easy! (This is not my area of strength!)

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Hmm……has she seen this before? She knows just what to do!

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Now for playing with their creations!!

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Ha! Ava taking Levi’s picture!

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SOOOOO Much Fun!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Batman Fun!

 

We were super excited to integrate Carisa’s Batman Preschool Pack  into Zachariah’s summer sensory handwriting program this week!

First up, he had some scissor practice cutting out different sized Batman images. 

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Next, are 2 activities Levi was able to do while I worked with Zachariah on some writing.  Then, Zachariah took a turn on these easier activities while I worked with Levi.

Matching the color words in print to matching color of batman’s wings.

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Levi is putting number in order 1-10.

Then I had him put the coordinating number of beads on each card…..Then I had him pop them all together:) (needed extra time!)

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Ava was busy tracing some lines to connect “the good guys” to the “bad guys”

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In the meantime, Zachariah was…..

tracing letter B and b…..(then he wrote it in his workbook on his own a few times)

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rolling play dough and forming the letters b and r….

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finding the matching letters to letters I called out to him…

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Last but not least…working on a color by number activity… (this activity I spread over 3 days) He colored 2 different numbers each day and we “painted” on the 3rd day. 

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We used watercolor colored pencils…after he finishes coloring them, you can dab a q-tip in water and turn the pencil marks into paint.  His little muscles are getting lots of great practice with coloring in the lines in a fun fun way!

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Another “just for fun” element I added this week is our new gently used gem Melissa and Doug mailbox I found at a local consignment shop! Zachariah loves to check the mail each day! So this morning he had lots of mail ready for him when he woke up.

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Now my intention when planning this activity is that he would tell me each letter as he took them out of the mailbox. (These are his sensory flashcards made with jello and glue!)

But he quickly started to doing this…..

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So he had fun telling me which letters he was mailing, instead of which ones he was receiving:) Same goal achieved!

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Carisa has TONS of different preschool themes to help your child learn….check them out here.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

4th of July 2011

I think being able to ride their bikes in a local 4th of July parade takes 2nd place to Christmas Day in our home. Bright and early, all 3 TripleSmiles were jumping on our bed trying to wake us up! Today is the parade! Hurry! Get Up!

The night before, I helped each child decorate their bike for this very fun family tradition.

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The kids absolutely LOVE riding their bikes in the parade.

Waiting for the Police to go by, before heading out behind them:)

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After riding about 4  blocks, we pull off at my aunts house and watch the rest of the parade go by……

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The kids love catching candy that is thrown to them…

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Watch Out Levi…the band is coming!

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And yes, Ava insisted on her pink crocks with her Red, White and Blue!

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The kids even caught beach balls this year!

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