fishing for insects

Recently we had a toy swap with  our very good friend and Jr S got a chance to read, The Wide mouthed frog . This came with a great puppet set of each of the animals. Needless to say, she loved it. Continuing with the same theme, I made some insects out of cardstock and taped magnets to them and Jr S "fished" for insects to feed the wide-mouthed frog.

spray painting

We made simple shapes with sidewalk chalk and Jr S sprayed inside the shapes with her little spray bottle. A great activity to work on fine motor coordination. If you want to isolate the control in the index finger , try using a water gun .

More pouring/transferring activity

Jr S loves transferring bird food in our little feeder, what a great repetitive activity for practicing transferring skills. This time I gave her a small plastic teacup to fill it. Now when we do this activity I fill in a small plastic container with bird food which makes the transferring it , neater. Birdies...Bon Appetit

water pouring

This was one of our staple activity last summer as well, but this year her skills have improved a lot for pouring and transferring. I just put out a kitchen tub with water, sometimes, with food color in it. We made a pouring station with a milk garton with a cutout hole and put the funnel in the pouring spout. Add a few measuring cups /spoons and watch them get all wet!!

Easter fun

We had lots of fun activities for Easter. Unfortunately, we were not able to arrange for an egg hunt this year but Jr S had fun at school . We did this patterning activity with different colored easter eggs. The first time, I made 2 patterns and had Jr S copy them . The second time she participated in making the actual pattern but got carried away a little. All in all , colorful fun.

matching skills

I love this game of matching cards, we first tried it before a trip to my sisters and then we played with it a couple of times in the plane ride too. It has 10 pairs of cards and they are tricky to match with subtle differences like purse/ no purse, shirt pattern differences etc. Till a few months back I would only present 4 to 5 pairs at a time for her to match. Now she is able to match all the 10 pairs at a time. I got this game from  here. Sorry for the bad picture!

Pudding

Jr S helped me make her pudding , she loves to use the whisk. Unfortunately, Jr S wasn't as interested in eating it . But it was so much fun, she helped me measure with her measuring glass and kept on saying "just 1 cup" as we measured.