T is for Transportation Week 2

Monday Movement: Construction Movement Cards

http://www.royalbaloo.com/download/RoyalBalooConstructionMovementCards.pdf

Tuesday:

So we bought this train table:

However, the reverse side of this table is plain black.  P hasn't ever used the other side.

I've tried using the tracks with him without any luck.

So we will just use the table with the city on it without the train tracks.

Double duty here:

Wednesday: sorting Legos

one gross motor tossing bean bags

Thursday:

They have these mini-cones at the Dollar Tree

We will only use maybe 2 and hide a car under one.

If you don't want the cones,

use a paper tube.

Friday:

Saturday:

Shopping List for All About Me:

All About Me books

Your child's favorite sensory bin filler (beans, paper, rice, ect)
*Curling Ribbons
*Bows
*Candles (I have a Melissa & Doug cake set or 2 lol  I will put one set in)
*Party Hat
*Numbers (for child's age)
*Letters for name, spell happy birthday

Paints 
cake- since it will be his birthday
Markers or colored pencils or paints or crayons
Play doh- muti-colors
Felt- 2 background full sheets, brown 1/2 sheet & other various colors.

T is for Transportation Week 1

Sensory Bin:

Make your own ramps and tunnels

Monday Book/DVD

Puzzles:

Tuesday:

I bought one of these a while ago,

but saved it until now to bring it out.

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Bring out the play dough and have your child make tracks in it.

Friday: Car wash. If possible go outside and wash your Coz-E Coupe :)
If not, wash some small cars in the house.

Saturday:

Trafic Light Graham Crackers

Sometime in the next two weeks, we are going to make Nuts & Bolts.  Most of you call it chex mix.  I will not be adding the M&M's.

Quiet Book pages 

I will not be using white, but green for a grassy background.

A for Apples Week 2

Tuesday: Apple Cloud Dough

You can do red, green, or yellow 

Apple Cloud Dough

Wednesday:  Apple Songs

Thursday: Pom Pon pushing

I might love this photo more because they have a frog dish!

Friday: Torn paper apples

Tearing is great for fine motor skills.

If your child is really into this activity,

you can make a red, yellow, and a green one!

Snacks this week will include dried apples and regular apples.  

P is not a big fan of applesauce though.

Shopping List for Transportation:

Cars/trucks/planes

Black Beans (sensory bin)

Tubes- either from toilet paper or paper towels

M&M’s

White frosting- we are tinting yellow

Graham Crackers

Construction paper- red, yellow, green

Nuts & Bolts ingredients (Chex cereals, cheerio’s, pretzels)

Rice Krispie ingredients (marshmallows, butter, cereal)

Quiet book (background pages 2, gray or black for the road, many colored scraps.)

A is for Apples

BOOK Suggestions:

Apple Cider Making Days – Marjorie Priceman

Apple Farmer Annie – Monica Wellington

Apple Pie ABC – Alison Murray

Apples – Gail Gibbons

Apples and Pumpkins – Anne Rockwell

Apples, Apples Everywhere! – Robing Michal Koontz

Apples, Apples, Apples –Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Apples For Everyone – Jill Esbaum

Applesauce Season – Eden Ross Lipton

Autumn Is For Apples – Michelle Knudsen

The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein

How Do Apples Grow? – Betsy Maestro

How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World – Marjorie Priceman

Johnny Appleseed – Reeve Lindbergh

Johnny Appleseed – Steven Kellogg

One Red Apple – Harriet Ziefert

Ten Apples Up On Top! – Dr. Seuss

Ten Red Apples – Pat Hutchins

The Apple Pie Tree – Zoe Hall

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Gail Gibbons

Up, Up, Up! It’s Apple Picking Time – Jody Shapiro

I will be making these trees out of fun foam.

After we are down with them,

I will be adding them to his quiet book!

I will use split peas.

Tuesday song.

You could make 10 felt apples or just use 10 pom pons

So we will sort ball pit balls- red, green, and yellow.

If I have them, we will sort into red, green, or yellow bins.

On here we will use Scented Apple Paint.  I will never use glitter with children...  Hello, glitter is cut up glass.

For older children, have them roll a 

number cube and take that many apples out with the tongs.

Saturday:

                                                                Apple Moon Sand

You could also add the Apple play dough set.



I really really want to make this:

But there is no recipe!  :( 

Splish Splash week 2

Anything with an * is an outdoor activity, however, some can be brought inside as well.

Monday~

Anything with an * is an outdoor activity, however, some can be brought inside as well.

Wednesday~ Use different color fun foam and cut out shapes for the water table.

Thursday~  Bring out paint rollers and paint brushes and take them outside.  You could also do inside with construction paper and still use plain water.

Friday~ Give your child a whisk and have them whisk to make bubbles. 

Saturday~ Duck footprint

I will most likely let P paint the water and let it dry and add his foot later.

With this a mainly outdoor week, I will most likely switch around things based on the weather.

We will also eat goldfish for a snack.  You could also do blue colored vanilla pudding.  If P liked Jell-O, I would make blue Jell-O and put it through the potato ricer.  Just do it, the kids love the different texture when they eat it. 

Yes this is basically what mine looks like from my gamma.  Oh wait- she took it back and gave me the "new" one because the old one works better lol

I also have the theme Ocean planned for later on.

Shopping List for A is for Apples

Sand

Cornstarch

Apple Pie spice

Food Coloring- red, green, yellow

Flour- 7 cups

Vegetable Oil

Paint

Dried split peas

Red, Yellow, Green pom pons

Fun Foam- green and brown

Construction paper

Splish Splash week 1

Anything with an * means outside play

Monday~ Watercolor rainbow fish. We will add it to painted blue paper Saturday.   

Tuesday~ Take the sprinkler outside and bring the music too.

Wednesday~  Gather random toys around the house. See which sinks and which floats.

Thursday~ http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/28677/play-dough-recipe

Friday~ We are washing our toys. Use soap and a washcloth.

Saturday~ Sponge bombs- think Bozo and buckets.  Set up your buckets and toss the sponges in. 

Use less buckets for younger children or space them farther apart for older children. Basically, you toss something, in this case our sponge bombs, into the buckets.

Paint bubble wrap blue, roll on paper and add cut out RF. I don't know if I have a rolling pin, so I may just use a paper towel tube instead.

I is for Insect week 2

Puzzles:

Musical instruments:

Tuesday:

Flight of the Bumble Bee videos on YouTube

Yo Gabba Gabba

I'm Bringing Home a baby bee.

Frozen bugs:

Freeze bugs in ice cube trays at least the night before, then add to water table :) 

Snacks:

Saturday Art~
I will glue the tube together and on the paper before P works on it.  It may or may not have pipe cleaner legs.

I know I didn't plan for doing another quiet book page, but I just came across this cute beehive!

I will either use fabric paint or a sharpie to make the lines on the hive.

Shopping list Splish Splash:

Sponges (yeah buy many and then some more! We are making sponge bombs)

String

Fun Foam- I am going to cut some shapes out of fun foam

Cheap conditioner

Corn starch

Bubble wrap

Paints- watercolors and poster

Paint brushes

Paint rollers

Water toys

Bubble wrap

Snack ideas: goldfish, vanilla pudding with blue food coloring, blue Jell-O