Fishing snack

Charlotte fished for goldfish with peanut butter and veggie straws. You are suppose to use pretzel sticks, but we didn't have any and made do with what we had in the cupboard. This quick snack was so fun for Charlotte.

The happy snackers... :)

More Ocean Tot Trays

Counting with fish cards and glass beads.

Counting 1 to 5 by placing glass beads on each fish.

Cutting shells

Working on open and closing and cutting in between the shells.

Same and Different: Finding the different item from the bunch using stickers and strips of card stock.

C found the plant (seaweed) out of all the fish.

Painting Pasta "Shells"

Charlotte painted these jumbo pasta shells today. She loves painting with lots of paint. She worked for a long time on each shell. This fun indoor art activity was perfect for a really hot summer day.

Painting the shells.

Focused.

Still working on them.

All done!

Ocean Trays

Beach gel clings

Charlotte making a setting with the sticky beach gel clings.

C's picture of the tray and my leg. She insisted, lol.

Transferring pasta shells in the fish tray with tongs

The tongs were a bit tricky, but she quickly worked it out and loved this!!!

Trying so hard with those tricky tongs.

Matching foam sea animals

She loved this. I can tell she loves to organize and is stimulated by the colorful animals.

We practiced pasting objects on paper

And counted the fish.

Ocean Stuff

Charlotte continues to learn more about the "ocean".

She played with a magnet set I made out of laminated stickers and ocean scene.  

She enjoyed naming the animals and pretending to make the fish swim in the sea.

Counting with stickers

Coloring an ocean animal booklet.

All done!

Wave bottle and Fish print scales

We went over to Vicki and Charlie's for a fun play date. Since Vicki and I have planned an ocean unit for the girls to do, we have combined activities on Fridays together. I forgot my camera while the girls did the activities today, these pictures will have to do.

The girls made an ocean in a plastic water bottle. We used, vegetable oil, glitter, blue food coloring, and water. When the bottle shakes you can see the bubbles (waves) and glitter (sand) move around, the deeper blue part is the depth of the ocean. Very fun activity!

The girls also used rolling pins with bubble wrap to roll paint on fish to make "scales". Very fun too!

Smoothie Pops and our Beach unit

Made these Smoothie Pops for something new for breakfast... http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/smoothie-pops-676160/

Charlotte LOVED it, the pops were a BIG hit!!!

We started an beach/ocean unit for the next couple of weeks. Charlotte plays with her ocean sensory box A LOT. All of the Tot Trays are ocean themed. I get a lot of ideas from playhouseinmaryland.blogspot.com.

Button Snake with felt fish (idea adapted from Counting Coconuts blog)

Umbrellas and Styrofoam

Opening/Closing Umbrellas and pushing them into Styrofoam.

She sang "Happy Birthday" when she was all done.

Big and Small sort with shell cards (made by me)

Sorting by size

Stamping with beach stamps

Note to self... never, ever walk away from a 1 year old and a peanut butter sandwich... Ddddd-zaster!!! LOL