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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Toddler Ideas Tuesday: November 11, 2014: Featuring the Letter D and Dotted D's

Welcome back to Toddler Idea Tuesdays! I hope you will join with me again in sharing the fun activities, crafts, and lessons that you are doing with your young children.

I am finally getting back on track with the two younger children during our lesson time. We are still way back on the letter D. I printed out some worksheets from abctwiggles.com for both of them. Then we made some Dotted D's.

This worksheet focuses on upper/lower case identification.

Hannah worked on writing the letter Dd, coloring pictures that start with /d/, identifying the D/d to color the dinosaur, and identifying the pictures that started with /d/ while giving the dog the bones.

Even Harold did well telling me which pictures started with /d/.

He colored a Dd poster as well and did a wonderful job gluing the bones onto the paper after I cut them out. I didn't help him with the gluing part at all.

And here are their Dotted D's. I just cut a D out of a piece of construction paper and cut out circles for the dots. Harold chose colors for the paper.

Harold's:

Hannah's:

I have to say, I have missed making letter crafts for the children.

Now onto:

Toddler Idea Tuesday Features

On my last Toddler Idea Tuesday post, there were 3 wonderful posts linked up. As there were no clicks at all last week, I have decided to highlight all 3 posts.

1- Christianity Cove shared 13 Thanksgiving Bible Activities That Teach Gratitude. I have to say, this is perfect timing, because we have been learning about gratitude.

2- The Bewitchin' Kitchen shared Tips for Planning a Train Themed Birthday Party. I'm not sure if we will be doing a train themed party any time soon. However, I can really see making use of these ideas when we are doing the letter T. I love the look of the train snack ideas.

3- Mimi and the Grands shared T is for Turkey - Book Study Unit. There are many great ideas for a Thanksgiving unit study. I need to see if I can find the book T is for Turkey to read to the children.

I would love to have you join in this week! What sort of activities do you do with your toddlers and preschoolers? Do you have some favorite activities you would like to share? I invite you to link up below. I will be pinning posts on my Toddler Ideas board and I would love to feature some of the activities each week from what is linked up. Please know I may share a picture from your post and link back to it, along with sharing how we used your idea in our toddler time. By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. Additionally, if you choose to try out any of the ideas with your toddler, please make sure you give credit where credit is due.

Linky will be open through Sunday night, to give me time to check out all the posts and get the Features organized. Please take the time to visit some of the other wonderful posts linked up.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen #94: Cracker Caterpillars

Time for Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen

(A weekly linky to share what you and your children have created in the kitchen.)

The linky is at the bottom.

This week's Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen was again from ABC Twiggles. I was working on the letter C with Harold and Hannah, and knowing how much they love crackers, I thought this was a wonderful idea. Tabitha, Amelia, and Hannah were able to work almost entirely independently. Mommy did have to help Harold, who was not very happy he couldn't eat everything as soon as it was handed to him.

Ingredients:

8 round snack crackers per caterpillar
peanut butter
jelly
banana
chocolate chips (or raisins)

This is such a cute idea and simple to make.

I gave the children their 8 crackers and we did a little math first, checking out what half of 8 was by lining the crackers up, 4 on one side, 4 on the other. (This was mainly for Hannah's benefit, as the older girls already know this.) They were told that half of the crackers needed peanut butter on them, and the other half needed jelly.

Remember I said Harold wasn't happy he couldn't eat his crackers until the caterpillar was made. Well, here you go...

The girls then sliced a quarter of a banana. They put slices on three crackers and ate the rest.

The banana-less cracker was then given 2 chocolate chips for eyes and the girls created their caterpillars. This was great for working on the simple ABAB pattern.

Unfortunately, now that the caterpillars were done, Harold wasn't interested in eating them, or getting his picture taken. Silly boy.

Do you have your children help you in the kitchen? What lessons do they learn? Do you have any kid friendly recipes to share?

I'd love to see your posts, whether you have done something this week or some time in the past. Just link up below. This is a weekly linky.

I am linking up to:

Melt in Your Mouth Monday
Try a New Recipe Tuesday at Home to Four Kiddos
The Gathering Spot at Mamal Diane
Friday Food Frenzy at Close to Home
Fantastic Thursday at Five Little Chefs
Foodie Friends Friday at Robyn'sView
Family Fun Friday at Happy and Blessed Home
Find a New Recipe Friday at Almost Supermom

And here is my Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen linky

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen #92:Applesauce Delight

Time for Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen

(A weekly linky to share what you and your children have created in the kitchen.)

The linky is at the bottom.

During the summer, when we were reviewing ABCTwiggles for my Back to School Celebration, we focused on the letter A for a week. One of the things I love about ABCTwiggles is the snack ideas to go with each letter, perfect for Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen. As I didn't get a chance to post about our snack (beyond a short mention in the review) I figured I would share it during our first week of school, seeing as I reviewed "A" with Hannah and Harold this week.

Ingredients:

Applesauce
Graham Crackers
Cool Whip
Cinnamon and Sugar

Originally, I was just going to make these with Hannah and Harold, but the older girls would have none of that. So, they all made their own.

They had to crush their own graham cracker in a plastic bag.

Harold and I made the cinnamon sugar. No, I do not measure. We just pour in some sugar and add a little cinnamon until we reach the desired results.

We then layered the ingredients in this order: applesauce, cinnamon sugar, graham crackers, Cool Whip, repeat.

I added the applesauce for Harold and Hannah, then I let them help with the remaining ingredients.

Tabitha and Amelia did a great job making theirs almost entirely independently.

Yummy Applesauce Delight:

Do you have your children help you in the kitchen? What lessons do they learn? Do you have any kid friendly recipes to share?

I'd love to see your posts, whether you have done something this week or some time in the past. Just link up below. This is a weekly linky.

I am linking up to:

And here is my Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen linky

Sunday, April 25, 2010

T Lessons concluded

These lessons were done a few weeks ago, but I thought I would share them this week. Next week I will share what we have done and are planning to do this week for the letter Uu.

We started a lesson on Telling time. Tabitha and Amelia both made a clock with movable hands. We painted a paper plate and then glued on the clock template I found here. I used the 8 inch size, but they also have a 6 inch template.

The girls also painted the clock hands.

I cut them out first and taped them to a bigger piece of paper so the girls could paint them with out having to touch them.

When everything was dry I put it all together with a metal paper fastener.

We spent some time discussing time on the "real" clock and then Tabitha did an activity I made up for her. I found a different clock template at a really cool website called Journey in Time. This website is chock full of information about clocks and telling time. The section "Once Upon a time" has the history of telling time and classroom activities. There is a section on the Foucault Pendulum. The section "Just in Time" has more activities, such as math/science and it is here that I found the templates along with so much more. There is also a section on sundials.

Anyway, I copied the template with the numbers and pasted it into my word processing program. I shrunk the size down so I could fit several on a page, then I printed them out, cut them out and glued on the clock hands (quite a tedious task). I have 12 clocks, one each for one o'clock through twelve o'clock. Tabitha had fun picking a clock and using her big clock to "make" the matching time. So far we have on worked on telling time to the hour.

We also made a train accordian book for their T books.

I found a pattern here and printed out extra copies so we could have more cars. After I taped them together, the girls glued circles onto the wheels and squares onto the windows

then they glued pictures of animals beginning with the letter T onto the back of the cars.

Our train is transporting a turkey, a toucan, a tortoise, a tahr, and a tapir.

We went over to the thrift shop and found the game Topple. No, I didn't realize until I got it home, that it would go well with our T lessons. Tabitha was really looking forward to playing the balancing game. Then when we started to put the pieces on the balance board she decided it would be more fun to make them into "sandwiches."