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.

Learning About Halloween

It's the Little One's first real Halloween.

We've spent time reading books about pumpkins and costumes.

And walking around the neighbourhood looking at decorations.

At home I painted four peg dolls in Halloween costumes.

A jack o'lantern, a monster, a ghost and a witch.

I also painted a wooden house with chalk board paint.

Back at the Little One's house I set up a table in the kitchen.

They had a flat cardboard box that fit perfectly.

I taped it down and set up the scene with 5 little pumpkins, the peg dolls and house, as well as chalk.

She loved the chalk.

I showed her that it could be used to draw on the house and the cardboard.

After she drew on the house, I drew a path way.

The trick or treaters are practicing walking down the street.

Then she practiced "Booing!"

We've been playing a lot with the word/sign for scared.

She uses it when she retells being scared

but when she is scared she usually cries "momma, momma, momma".