Starting a New Tub But We Got Distracted

 This week I started to set up our sensory tub.

First I put sticky paper (contact paper) on the wall with the sticky side out.

As I was busy taping the contact to the wall, the paper that was peeled off was left on the floor.

The children started walking and playing on it.

It made a wonderful sticky sound as they walked across it.

Soon the older one was tearing the paper apart.

 Which we scooped up and put in a box.

We pretended it was food to stir.

Later that day, after a nap, they started playing with the paper again.

I crumpled some of it into balls.

 They started picking them up and throwing them around.

What a fun game!

Their imagination didn't stop there.

This little one started to play, it looked like to me, hockey.

Jelly Bean Stew

 Jelly beans, one of my favourite candies, was a focus this past week.

I brought a pot full of plastic shaped jelly beans for the little one to play with.

Mmmm making stew for two.

Practicing our colours as we sing.

At the end of the week we tasted real jelly beans.

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.