baking soda + vinegar

 

baking soda + vinegar = a fun way to exercise small motor skills!

and play around with colour mixing!

and learn about cause and effect!

and its just plain fun!

It was hard work figuring out how to suck up the vinegar with the eye dropper, but with lots of practice he became a pro!

He loved watching the soda fizz up!

When Lucas grew tired of this activity I told him to dump the cups into the bin for one big final fizz.

This activity was tons of fun for both me and Lucas, we will be repeating it again soon.

totschool – 26 months

Lucas is 26 Months

This week our focus was dinosaurs. We will be continuing on with this next week as well.

 

Stamping dinosaur footprints with brown paint/mud

After Lucas was finished he washed his dinosaurs in some warm soapy water

he really enjoys playing with water so this occupied him for quite some time, I cant wait for warmer weather so he can play in the water table whenever he wants!

I gave Lucas our craft toothbrush to scrub the dino’s

 

Lucas glued black beans and split peas to a triceratops

and played with his tiny dinosaurs in the rice and lentil sensory tub.

Lucas also helped me make play dough this week

 

and we used it for our stART activity!

 

I made this file folder game for Lucas, I found the printable for it here.

Lucas showed me how well he knows his alphabet when we did this activity!

I printed this page from the making learning fun website. After Lucas told me the letter I would give him a sticker for him to match to the letter on the page.  

He knew the names of most of the letters… and he knew the phonetic sound to almost all of the letters! ( he loves to play on starfall and has learned a lot from that site)

Lucas really enjoys helping, so each day I have him do some do some chores around the house!

I use a mix of vinegar and water to do most of my light cleaning, so it is perfectly safe for Lucas to help… and he LOVES to use the spray bottle!

Lucas also loves to vacuum!

 

here he is vacuuming up some dried up play dough from earlier in the day.

Lucas has been really into puzzles lately, he loves his melissa and doug shape puzzle.

He also really likes this puzzle, especially when his big brother helps him sort it out!

It also makes for a great stage when your done! ; )

That’s it for this week! Visit 1plus1plus1equals1 to see what other tots are learning.

I heart faces ~ Fix it Friday

 

 

I’ve always loved playing around in photoshop, its so much fun!  So when I came across the I heart faces blog and learned about their fix it friday photos I just had to join in on the fun!

 

This is the original image:

 

and here is my edit:

 

You can find more great edits here!

Valentine Art

Last week when Dominic stayed home from school we got out a large sheet of paper, and some oil pastels and started doodling&scribbling

Once we were finished I gave Dominic some pink acrylic paint (watered down) to paint over top.

I love the hearts he drew!

Once it was dry we cut out the hearts, and traced and cut out the word Love.

It is now hanging on the wall in our dining room.

stART ~ Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones

We have moved on to learning about dinosaurs! and the book we have chosen for our stART project is

Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones by Byron Barton.

For our art project to go along with the book we used our play-dough and some different pasta shapes that I raided from our pantry we made dinosaur skeletons/fossils!

Lucas made this one on his own

and this is one that we made together!

He wasn’t to interested in making dinosaur shapes, and that was OK! We ended up having lots of fun making all sorts of other creations with the play-dough and pasta!

  

See other great stART projects by visiting A Mommy's Adventures!

Homemade Play-dough!

Yesterday Lucas and I made a fresh batch of play-dough from our favourite recipe. Our play-dough always turns out so soft and perfect for Lucas little hands, so I thought I would share our recipe!

I know there is a ton of play-dough recipes floating around on the web, but I thought I would share ours anyways incase any of my readers are in search of good recipe!

 

You will need:

• 2 Cups of Water
• Food Colouring
• 1 Cup of Salt
• 4 Teaspoons Cream of Tartar
• 4 Tablespoons of Oil
• 2 Cups of Flour

 

Everything measured and set up ready to go!

 

In a large saucepan add water, food colouring, salt  and cream of tartar.

 

mix softly to combine ingredients

 

If you want to add a little something extra like a scent or some sparkles, do that now! then set on the stove at low heat and stir.

 

Once the mixture starts to heat, add the oil. Then slowly add the flour in while stirring.

 

Continue mixing the dough until it starts to look dry and is pulling away from the sides of the pan.

Remove the dough from the pan and place on a clean work surface. If you find the dough is sticky put it back in the pan for another minute or so.

Knead the dough until smooth!

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Next give the dough to your little dinosaur and see how he likes it!

poke it…

and make some balls…

and some snakes… or trains as this little dino prefers

pull it apart…

and then smoosh it back together!

 

and when you are done, store it in an airtight container (not in the refrigerator!) for another day!

We usually make a fresh batch of play-dough each month, just to change up the colour and to restore interest. But if you wanted to this dough will easily last 3 months!