puffy paint

 

Lucas enjoyed working with puffy paint yesterday, I knew he would since the viscosity is somewhat similar to glue… and he loves glue!

I made a batch and separated it into three different colours, I used old shampoo bottles and an old glue bottle. Lucas preferred the glue bottle since it was smaller and easier for his little hands to squeeze.

 

To make puffy paint:

• 1cup of flour
• 1cup of salt
• 1cup of water
• empty squeeze containers
• 1 Tablespoon tempera paint –as many colours as you want

Mix the first 3 ingredients together in a big bowl.

Divide the mix out into smaller containers – one for each colour

Add 1 Tbsp of tempera and mix well. Adjust the colour by add another tsp of paint until desired colour s reached

Pour into squeeze bottle – a funnel will make this easier or you can spoon the mixture.

Give the child the bottles and watch them get to work!

 

* this paint does not work well on construction/craft paper. Instead use matte board or card board, we used and old cereal box cut up!

Spooning Marbles

While I’ve been busy getting the house organized I’ve had to come up with some activities to keep Lucas busy. His favorite activity at the moment is spooning marbles!

He was able to control the marbles much better from when we did this activity using rice a few weeks ago.

After Lucas spent some time spooning the marbles back and fourth between the bowls, I gave him an ice cube tray and we put one marble in to each section and counted them.

He lost interest almost instantly! and went back to the original activity.

 

I’ve noticed when I directly teach him things… like counting out the marbles, he wants no part of it. But if we are singing our finger counting song he will count to 10 no problem. What a little monkey!!!

Tiny Rocks + Stacking Cups=1 Happy Boy!!

We spent this weekend up north at our trailer. Lucas loved being able to spend soo much time outside and was instantly attracted to the gravel roads. I gave him a set of stacking cups to use with the rocks and he was thrilled!

 He didnt want to do anything else the rest of the time we were there!

He had tons of fun filling and pouring the cups.

The next day was no different. Its the first thing he did when he got outside.

This time Mama added a dump truck to the mix!

Soo much fun!

Spooning Rice

This week we tried something new!! 

I gave Lucas a tray with two small bowls, one empty and one with rice. Then I showed him how to spoon the rice from one bowl to the other. I had seen this idea on another blog awhile ago, I cant remember which one.... I think it may have been Chasing Cheerios.

It was a bit difficult for him, but he still enjoyed it.  I think next time I will use something a little bigger to make it a little easier for him : )

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.

Yummy FingerPaint

Today we did some finger painting with yoghurt... 

He really enjoys doing activities where he can get messy like this!

If you are interested in doing this with your tot all you do is mix some plain yoghurt with some food coloring, and let them get to work!   You could also use vanilla pudding and food coloring or just plain chocolate pudding, but be prepared that they may eat that more then they paint with it! 

Sensory Table Fun!

Yesterday I put some shaving cream in our sensory table, the kids really enjoyed it!

Especially Mr.Lucas

Once they had played with it for awhile I added some yellow and red paint and let them explore the colours.

We had fun making a BIG mess!