On Monday we played with play dough. Mara always wants to pull it out. I didn't have a project in mind this time but we decided to have a "picnic". We grabbed her plates and made pretend food out of the play dough. She loved the blue berries and the strawberries I made.
In the afternoon I put together a fruit sensory bin. This was the first time I used oats as my sensory bin filler. I was nervous that it would be a mess and it was. It wasn't as bad as I thought but it still took a bit more clean up than I'm used to. In the end it wasn't anything a quick vacuum couldn't fix. Mara loved this though. She scooped the oats into the pots and cut the fruit.
After nap we did one last project. In the morning I cut out a pineapple shape and tore up some yellow paper. I knew pineapple was one fruit she hasn't seen a lot so I wanted to introduce it to her. We used a glue stick to adhere the paper to the pineapple. She really liked this activity and stayed pretty much engaged throughout the whole thing despite eating her snack at the same time!
Thursday she again was more interested in playing than doing any activities. We did fit in a "paint the toast" worksheet in the afternoon. I had printed out a page that was a picture of a piece of toast and gave her some purple crayons. I let her put the jelly on it!
Next week we're doing a construction theme. Again I don't feel like I have enough interesting activities planned but we'll just do the things we do have and go from there!
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