Peg Dolls

 For the past couple of years I've been having fun making toys for my grand children.  Here are some of the peg dolls that I've painted to go with our favourite books.

 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

                                                                    Room on the Broom

The Three Little Pigs

Owl Babies

Caps for Sale

Five Little Monkeys

Grumpy Bird

  

  Pete the Cat

I Love my White Shoes

and His Four Groovy Buttons.

What's in the Tub Tuesday?

Our newest book is Mouse Paint.  It's a great book to introduce and reinforce colours.

I made some paint for the little ones to use.

One of the twins is still putting things in her mouth so I decided to use an instant pudding mix as the base and added food colouring.

Here's our red, blue and yellow paint.

(Although the blue is a bit more green than I preferred).

I took their sensory table, turned it upside down and wrapped it in plastic.

The plastic was recycled from a big item that I had purchased.

The girls were excited.

The twins hadn't used paint brushes before and they didn't put theirs down the whole time we were painting. 

They shared the paint pots adding a new element of colour mixing.

(like the mice in the book)

Since it was new they didn't limit themselves to painting on the plastic.

 I brought out some paper to give them another alternative than their bodies.

The older one has a much different hand grip on the brush.

She has been painting before and can manipulate the brush for big and small strokes.

Here's the reason that the paint is made out of pudding.

But using pudding makes the paint sticky.

And they were all pretty sticky by the time they were done.

So like the mice, in Mouse Paint, they needed a bath.

Which they were surprised to have outside but loved it.

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!

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

The Little One was excited to see a new story set up for her to play with.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

 I painted peg dolls to look like the characters in the story.

An old door knob works for the table with 3 bowls painted on it.

Wooden spools are their chairs and I used foam for the beds.

Everything can be packed away into the little suitcase.

Goldilocks walking through the forest.

Two of the trees are hand painted and the other three were simply made by hot gluing a dowel between two pieces of felt and stuck in a spool.

After reading the story to her she went through it herself.

Then started to use the props to tell a story.

The bears getting the porridge ready and sitting on their chairs. 

Then they went to bed.

Love that she created her own way.