Week of September 20 - Leftovers

Monday - Cupcakes

This week I'm serving some leftovers! There are a bunch of crafts and random projects I've not had the chance to do with the kiddos and this week is our time to revisit it all.

We kicked off today by making some puffy paint using glue and shaving cream and making some cute cupcake art. I let the kids put real sprinkles on which made it all the more fun. When the paint dried we poked and prodded it until it deflated. It's a really fun texture!

Afterwards, we got out these learning resources cupcakes that have slots for letters and pictures to work on the alphabet and spelling. Koko was surprisingly entertained by the little manipulative.

After the boys napped and Charlotte was home from pre-school, we used some plastic linking chains to work on counting and played a beginning sounds game using a cupcake tin, the letters I used during cupcake week and this consonant sound printable. Charlotte is a little pro!

Tuesday - Dinosaurs

Lava!!! I was really excited about this activity because it was something Koko could enjoy as well. We put red and yellow paint inside of the bag and talked about how when it got mixed together, it made orange. Koko squished the heck out of it his and grabbed Charlotte's as well, so to keep the peace I taped Clesse's onto a different window.

Afterwards we made some salt dough to make dinosaur fossils - Clesse made footprints in his, Luke mostly held the dinosaurs and said "rooarrr!!!" (he didn't want much to do with the dough after he tasted it despite my repeated warnings not to), and Charlotte added glitter to hers. To each their own!

While having lunch, we joined in on a virtual story time with our local library. The kids loved it and it was so cute to see them engaged. The theme of the story time was "shapes" and the craft? A dinosaur made out of shapes!

In the evening the boys and I played with some dinosaur puzzles while Charlotte was out on a little date with her dad. I love spending time with subsets of kids because they really have unique relationships with one another, and its fun to have some different interactions with them!

Wednesday - Rainbows

I initially had thrown rainbows in with unicorn week because I thought there couldn't possibly be enough unicorn stuff to keep both of the big kids entertained, but boy was I wrong! Ergo, we're doing a few of the more fun rainbow activities I had planned that we didn't get to a few weeks ago. I got out this large dry erase poster and started by having Charlotte copy down some of the colors I had written on each line in lowercase letters. I wanted to be able to watch her write letters, because there are a few that she seems to struggle with and I could hopefully help her and show her some easier ways to write them. After that we started to add items that are each color on the side of the paper, until Koko took over the poster 😂

After that we grew a rainbow! We colored each end of a paper towel and placed each end into a water. The initial effect is really cool, but Charlotte got a bit bored waiting for the color to make it all the way around and took hers out. We left Clesse's alone while we went to play and when we came back an hour later the marker had made it to the middle of the paper towel.

Charlotte decided the craft I had planned was "for babies" so she went off and did her own handprint craft that she designed. It was so cute to see her run back and forth to the bathroom to rinse off her hand after each color. But it turned out that the craft wasn't only for babies, because she micromanaged Clesse as he worked on the 3D rainbow. The rainbow tunnel worked perfectly for Clesse's little cars!

Thursday - Errands

I let the kids run around the park, and then dragged them around for some errands before Charlotte's pre-school. I've fallen a bit behind!

Friday - Ocean

We wrapped up the week by finishing up a couple of ocean projects that we wanted to do! We made a couple of sea creatures using egg cartoons, Charlotte made an adorable fossil using Play-Doh, and Clesse learned the names of a bunch of sea creatures by playing with these little figures and putting them into Play-Doh.