Mama's Little Helper

Lucas loves to "ELP Mama" with lots of the chores around the house. One thing he was unable to help with was the emptying of the dishwasher, since all our dishes are stored out of his reach. So a few weeks ago when I was cleaning and reorganizing my kitchen I decided to put all of his dishes in a bottom drawer…

As you can see he LOVES being able to put them away him self!

( I think his pants are a little to big hehee)

First he piles them together

Then walks them over to his drawer

Then he sets them down to open the drawer and put them in

and when he is done he closes the drawer back up

and then he closes the dishwasher for me too, I love having a little helper around the house : )

STart ~ Five Little Kittens

The book we chose for our STart project this week was "Five Little Kittens" by Stewart Cowley



I have had this book since I was young, it was a favourite of mine and now Lucas really enjoys it too!

For our craft this week we of course made a cat!


I put some black and white paint on the paper for him, and then he mixed it and painted

Can you believe he doesnt have paint all over him???

If you have looked at any of our previous STart posts he is always covered in paint! 
This was the first time EVER that we painted and he didnt eat the paint, or paint his hands : )

Im not sure if its because maybe grey paint isnt too appealing? Or if my babe is growing up!

 Once he was finished we put it away to dry

Then I cut it into a cat shape and had Lucas help me put the eyes and nose on

 

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Tot School

Lucas is 17months

This Week in Tot School...

This week we worked on playing with golf tees and Styrofoam. This was a huge success! Lucas loved this activity and did it almost every day this week. Notice big brother at the side of the photo... he decided to be camera shy on this day.

Such intensity as he works!

 

On his shelf this week as his animal cottage

This is still a big favorite around here!

He now knows that he has to match the coloured key to the same colour door...

Also from his shelf we played with his stacking/nesting cups

these are another favourite around here!

We spent some time outside Lucas likes to dig in our dirt patch

Here he is putting the dirt from one bucket to the other

and smooshing the dirt

 

Also this week I brought out a new toy

This however he had very little interest in

We did play with it for a few minutes but thats about it- oh well I will reintroduce this in a few weeks and see if he'll like it better then!

We did some feet (whole body lol) painitng for our STart project

(see our STart post here)

Lucas' new favourtie pass time has been looking out our living room window!

watching for birdies and waiting for dada to get home

Mamas favoutite photo this week...

STart ~ Whose Toes Are Those?

The book we chose for our STart project this week was - Whose Toes Are Those by Jabari Asim 

The book itself is not that great... One of my least favorites but Lucas enjoys it for the bright picture so we do read it quite often. The art project we did to go along with this book is painting with our feet!

I had originally planned to do this outside but its been raining here everyday this week. So I set this up in our bathroom instead that way I could just throw him in the tub when he was done : ) 

First he painted for a bit with his hands....

Then I showed him to put his feet in 

He loved squishing the paint between his toes

He had a BLAST!!

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Tot School

Lucas is 17months

This week in Tot - School

Hmmm which colour should I choose??

We did some colouring this week, Lucas is showing interest in learning the colour names so far he can say yellow and red, now just to work on matching the colours to the names!

We explored in the water tub again this week!

Lucas really enjoyed playing in the water so I put it out again. This time I added some plastic ice cubes and a slotted spoon for him to transfer the ice cubes into a bowl

He really enjoyed this activity, his favourite part was dumping this ice cubes back into the water he thought it was pretty funny making the water splash

We spent some time playing with out little people zoo this week

I started helping him to match the animals to their pictures, we did that for a few minutes and then he lost interest so we just did some role playing with the animals which he really enjoyed!

Apparently I have not been providing Lucas with enough sensory play so he decided to help himself...

Lucas found a bag of flour and decided to dump it onto our upside down picnic table! Funny thing is I was in the kitchen with him the whole time and didn't even realize what he was doing until after he dumped the bag lol 

He played in here for about a half hour while I finished making dinner, then he helped me to vacuum it all up : )

I printed this great easter matching activity from Home Grown Hearts

Lucas matched about 3 eggs before he lost interest... Oh well! Ill just tuck them away for next year ; ) 

Mommas favorite photo this week....

Water & Ice Cubes in the Sensory Tub

A few days ago I set up this activity to introduce Lucas to spooning objects.  At first he was a little discouraged because he was having some trouble getting the ice cubes to stay on the spoon but after some encouragement he got right into it.