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Ladybug Cut and Paste Activity + Printable

February 16, 2010

I made a Ladybug Cut and Paste Printable activity for Deen and my readers today. This activity can be made easier or harder depending on your child’s age. I’ve included 3 pages to this activity. The first page is for the youngest kids, just cut and have them place the spots wherever they want on […]

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Colorful Hand Painting

January 20, 2010

We did colorful hand prints today. I painted Deens hands and fingers different colors and then he stamped his hand on the piece of paper many times. His hand stamp lightened each time since I didn’t repaint his hand which he found interesting.) Each time he stamped he said “Mama, I love you.” Then he painted […]

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Marble Painting — Open Ended Art

January 13, 2010

We did marble painting for open ended art this week. Last week’s theme was ‘Red’ and since we didn’t get a chance to do it last week we did it this week. Hmm… I see that the painting looks purple red…If you think its not red maybe there is something wrong with your monitors colors.…? ok […]

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Coffee Filter Butterflies

November 30, 2009

Materials Needed: Coffee Filters (We used Coffee Filter Bags), pipe cleaners, washable markers, food coloring and water, and a water spray. First I opened up our coffee filter bags to make more of a butterfly shape. First Deen experimented with the food coloring. (I added some food coloring to water inside an ice cube tray to create […]

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Tot School and Learning through love

November 18, 2009

We had a lot of fun with my bingo colors printable. When I brought the bingo chips and color cards out Deen immediately matched the chips to their colors… smart thinking on his part.Thereafter we played bingo with the color cards… Deen won! Then we did my food cut and paste activity that I put up […]

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Animal Feet and More Tissue Box Fun!

October 8, 2009

Here are a few fun ideas with tissue boxes… Animal Feet:I would suggest using white tissue boxes unless you plan on using a dark color(black…) or using a million coats of paint… (it took me forever to cover the blue and yellow design on my orange feet!) Materials needed: Empty tissue boxes, acrylic paint, foam, paint […]

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Tot school — Week 3

August 19, 2009

Deen is 30 months old This week at Tot School: Deen arranged his new counting bears according to color He played with his new play dough toy. This thing is so cool! I loved how I Deen could make a billion different shapes, small snakes, spaghetti, and so much more! We used our homemade play dough […]

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Simply Made Sunday — Rice Krispie Treats

August 17, 2009

This week for Simply Made Sunday we made Rice Krispie treats.… this recipe is SO easy, its fun for kids and it’s quick. Ingredients: 6 cups rice krispie treats, 3 tablespoons butter, and 50 marshmallows. First, we prepared our ingredients.Deen counted some marshmallows. He put six cups of rice krispies in a bowl Now it was my […]

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Bubble painting

August 12, 2009

We did bubble painting today by mixing food coloring gel with normal bubbles.. mmm… not as easy as I thought… look at his shirt.… “eeew mama.. its in my mouth!” I wonder if those stains will come out of his shirt… I’ll leave you today with a sweet picture of aaliya

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Activities Deen did this week

August 8, 2009

We played with the marble run blocks. This was a new toy I bought him and such a great purchase! I’ve never seen him more focused before and he used the marble run everyday since the day we bought it for about 2 hours at a time… Deen played with play-doh by squishing it into the […]