What's in the Tub Tuesday?

To the sticky paper on the wall I placed the sensory tub in front of it and put small pieces of colour tissue paper in it.

They took the pieces of tissue paper and stuck it on the sticky wall.

They also discovered that the tissue makes a beautiful waterfall to the floor.

Another discovery was that the tissue easily stuck to the bottom of their feet when they walked on it.

That turned into part of the fun.  

Peeling it off the feet and sticking it to the wall.

All 3 of them enjoyed this idea of things sticking to the wall.

 I noticed that the table was getting in their way so I removed it and placed the tub on the floor.

Oh their curiosity!

They needed to check out the tub.

And soon started dumping it.

Their next step was to grab the paper and put it back in the tub just so they could dump it again.

The sticky wall will stay for a few weeks.

Next week I will add something new.

Visit again to see what it is.

New House Blocks

I was shopping on line looking for animal toys when I saw little wooden houses that I thought, 

"Hm, Raymond could make these and I could paint them".

 I also painted peg dolls to match the colour of the houses.

 Day 1 - I set the farm mat on the floor with the box holding the houses and dolls.

 They took their time pulling them out and exploring them.

 Once they set them down I placed them around the mat.

 Day 2 - I set the box in the middle of the floor.

I think the most fun, for them, is emptying the box.

 Once the box was empty I placed them in a circle with each peg doll in front.  By this time two of the peg dolls had gone missing.  Their mom eventually found them, a few days later, in their clothes hamper.

 They discovered that they can be knocked over with a bang.  Which the one standing loves because she is a thrower.

 I helped them stack the blocks but they discovered putting the dolls on top themselves.

 At clean up time I placed them all in a row under the tv stand so they were available to play with any time.

 That afternoon they explored a box of small blocks that were given to their mom.

They go well with our house blocks and peg dolls.

What's in the Tub Tuesday?

This week I didn't have a chance to go home and restock materials,

so I used what they have on hand and that is their loose toys.

They played with them the same way they do from the toy box.  And that is taking each out and throwing them on the floor.

A few they would hold and play with it.

Overall they didn't play with it too much.

Oh well!

It's Hot and No Pool

It is hot out.

Two of the days that I look after the little one there is a neighbourhood wading pool that we go to but today wasn't one of the days.

So what do you do to stay cool?

Play with the hose and fill whatever size tub you can find.

Her mom had done this last week and I was quite happy to do it again.

She didn't start in the tub. She started by watering the garden.

And exploring how the water came out of the nozzle, how it feels to slap her hand against it and how it felt when the water ran through her fingers.

By this time she took a closer look at what she was watering and we talked about if the strawberry was ripe enough to pick and eat.

Then she noticed the water running off the side of the concrete.

Dripping down below.

We sang' "drip, drip, drip".

 Looking for more things to water we decided to take care of some that are in pots.

These are mom's herbs that they planted together after Mother's Day.

This is Dad's new plant that he got from his mom for his birthday.

 Then she was interested in filling the tub.

 I brought bubbles to blow but they didn't work very well so I poured some into the water and we used our hands to make lots of bubbly water.

She spent a lot of time washing this little toy in the bubbles then rinsing it off under the hose.

After we were playing for about an hour we heard the neighbours sprinkler start so we peeked over the fence.

Colour Fun

 I surprised the little one with a new toy.

A homemade toy using paint chips from the store.

The paint chips have magnet strips attached to the back so they can stick to the fridge.  (She was quite interested in pulling the magnet strips off).

There are two of each colour so we can eventually work on matching.

But for now we are focusing on the colour names and how to sign each.

In the above picture she is signing 'white'.

 She liked the tin can that I brought them in

and she spent a lot of time opening and closing it.

After she had put almost all of them on the fridge she began to take them off again.  One at a time, opening and closing the lid after each addition.

It gave me another opportunity to say the names of the colours as she removed them.  She also worked hard learning how to take the cards off the fridge.

While she was busy playing with the coloured paint chips I made some jello for another activity.

I gave her the empty box and she started to put the paint chips inside of it.

 She thought of the idea of putting the cards in the box and followed through with it.  Then she had to figure how to get them out of the box.  Love watching her focus and calm approach at figuring it all out.