With the start of a new year I have decided to try something a little different with B in terms of craft & learning activities. He has some interest in the painting/constructing crafts, but it still interested in the interactive stuff. So, I have decided to try "tot trays", which I first learned about on the blog 1+1+1=1. The idea is that the child can choose which activities they would like to participate in and the trays provide easy access, clean-up and a little more independence.
For the first week of January I decided to go with a snow theme, and of course I planned way too different trays. In order to fit everything in I was changing the trays every other day, and I did not feel like that was enough time to explore each tray. I ended up spreading the theme over two weeks.
B did really well with this as long as I asked him, "where is the biggest one?" once he found it I would then ask him "where is the next biggest one?" until all of the snowmen were in size order. We worked from smallest to largest as well.
Braden putting the tray back when he was done with it.
Making a snowman - filling a water bottle with cotton balls using tweezers/tongs.
Focused on the Letter S for the week - so I put out the "S" magnetic sheet and the corresponding tracing/coloring pages. All of the letters can be found here.
I didn't want to completely give up on art projects. So we read the book Jack Frost and did a little water color/salt painting.
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