Book Play - Mrs Wishy Washy

Another of my favourite books and so much fun to reenact.

The girls had their own tubs and their own animals; a cow, duck and pig.

They also had blue tissue paper for pretend water and a scrub brush.

"Wishy washy, wishy washy"

The brown tissue paper on the floor is pretend mud.

 After washing the animals they went back into the mud for it all to be repeated.

 After they played with their animals for awhile they became the animals; a pig, duck and cow. 

 I became Mrs Wishy Washy.

Each of them had a turn in the tub for me to wash them.

They then went back to the mud, stumping, rolling and flapping.

 Fun in the tubs!

Eggs! What's Inside of Them

The Little One is showing some interest in eggs so I dug out a few toys that I used at StrongStart.

Here is an 'incubator' filled with eggs.

Each egg has a creature that comes from an egg.

Two of the books we read before opening the eggs were Hatch and

Guess What is Growing Inside this Egg.

She did great opening the eggs and figuring out each creature.

We spent time building vocabulary around eggs, hatching, and all the animal names.

After all the eggs were emptied I brought out pictures of each creature for her to match.

Farm Play

The girls are interested in farm animals.  

The twins are beginning to sign cow and say 'moo'.

 I made a felt mat for the floor to encourage that language.

It was simple to make with just felt and a glue gun.

I did use blue drawer liner for the pond.

 A problem that we encountered was that it's slippery.

When the twins crawled on top of it, it would scrunch up.

We laid a blanket underneath and it helped a bit.

 Here are the cousins looking at a cow and the big cousin is signing it.

 The barns are made from cardboard boxes that I painted then covered with modge podge so the paint wouldn't come off on their hands.

The animals I found at the dollar store.

They are from wooden inlay puzzles.

 The twins soon flipped the boxes over and put the animals inside.

Then dumped them out and did it again.

The older one thought it made a great blanket.

Book Play - The Mitten

Last year my grand daughter's favourite book was The Mitten.

I pulled it out again to see if the interest was still there.

To make it inviting I sewed some felt together to make this winter scene.

A soft, white mitten was sewn to the felt too.

I hid all the animals in the mitt.

The bear came out and said 'gr, gr'.

The fox was hard to take out because of his long tail.

The raccoon tried to climb into a tree then he went to the river to find a fish.

  

The animals explored the winter scene, walking on the snow, climbing in the trees, splashing in the water and hiding under a snow tunnel.

My grand daughter had fun playing but the interest isn't the same as last year and that's ok.

Who Lives in a Tree?

I built a tree around our tube stand and cut out some holes for our stuffed animals to live inside.

The Little One loved it!

The bird's nest is right at her level so that was the first stuffy to come out.

Once it was out she played with the flap, opening and closing it.

Then she decided to put her baby doll inside.

Next onto exploring the rest of the animals that live in a tree.

We have a fox, raccoon, deer, squirrels, chipmunk, skunk, eagle, robin, owl, crow and baby birds in a nest.

One day I caught her using her saw pretending to cut the hole.

I found these paint sticks at Michaels when I had a half off coupon.

We decided to try them out to colour our tree.

They work great.

They go on smooth, there is no dripping and they dry quickly.

While our tree dried we visited the Little One's cousins and went for a walk.

We saw these decorated trees.

All wrapped to keep them warm for winter?

 Back at home we had one more thing to do to our tree and that was to add some more leaves.

The Little One loves tape and had fun putting the leaves on, taking them off and putting them on again.

We think it looks pretty good.