Peanut Butter Play-Doh Lunch

Well it was one of those days. I am recovering from a sinus infection…and the thought of making lunch overwhelmed me. Then I thought of Peanut Butter Play-Doh. I have pulled this “trick out of the bag” at restaurants plenty of times. It keeps the little ones busy and fed at the same time.

Peanut Butter Play-Doh is a simple mixture of peanut butter, honey, and powered milk.

I mixed up a batch, put a spoonful on each child’s placemat, and then stepped back and watched them make their own lunch with a few things I had provided in bowls for them.

It was great fun…and it captured their attention for about 45 minutes! Win for the kiddos! Win for Mom!

Moving On…..

to Letter F……after working with the kids about 2 hours today, Zachariah says “Mom, when are we going to have learning time?” That is the goal! Yeah! Zachariah loves fire trucks…so this weeks focus is Letter F…and fire trucks. I’m probably going to throw a few fishy things in later this week….but for now…. I start each day with THE BASICS that I blogged about a few days ago.

This weeks toy trays are……

Learning Enhancements are…..

peeling and sticking fire truck stickers

working a great fire truck puzzle

THANKS Carissa from http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/

for sharing this amazing site http://www.makinglearningfun.com/

for these awesome highway letter cards..

HUGE HIT today:)

And of course….FUN FOOD

We had a RED HOT lunch tray that Firefighters Zachariah, Levi and Ava used to Fight their hunger:)

Pasta with Red Sauce, Strawberry Milk, Red Jell-O, Strawberries and Watermelon! Yummy!

After our morning, we went over to have some fun with cousins who live nearby! They were so kind and prepared their backyard for a fun water adventure. Thanks so much guys, we had a blast!

Happy Lunches

Today was “one of those days” where life just caught up with me and I was just plain tired!

We started the day, with a movie and I sat in my chair sipping coffee for 80 glorious minutes!

After watching the movie, my middle child ask me to get out one of his activities from the “activity closet.”

This was a birthday gift from one of his best friends for his recent birthday. The front page is full of large very colorful stickers.

He wanted to peel stickers. I learned from an ECI therapist that peeling stickers is actually very good for their fine motor skills. However; what do you do with random pages of stickers after they unpeel them and stick them to random pieces of paper?

Then I thought of what I had just done the day before to make their lunches for school “happy lunches.”

This actually filled up about 45 minutes of our morning:) After the stickers got “old” I pulled out dot art paint. That added another 30 minutes to the “Happy Lunch” activity!