The kids are little sponges lately, so I’m taking advantage and spending time doing activities that teach, but also things that are fun. I found some Melissa and Doug stamp kits for $7 at TJ Maxx, and since the kids love stamping and the ink was washable, it was a great find. I bought one wild animals and one farm animals. I drew four shapes on a piece of paper – square, triangle, circle, and star. I had them identify each shape. Then we got to stamping, while saying the animal sounds, choosing a color and counting the number of stamps. They had a blast and I think they finally learned circle!
Charlotte is a master stamper, kept all her stamping within the shapes, and attempted to count and say all the shapes.
She also liked to line up the stamps on the ink pad (I wish I had focused on her rather than the stamps/ink pad).
She also enjoyed the challenge of stacking the stamps.
Typical Cooper enjoyed putting everything in his mouth.
When I asked him to show me his mouth. (This looks so much like his surprised face. And don’t mind the ridiculously warm photos in that post. Wow.)
Then I clarified and asked him to show me his tongue.
Again with stuff in his mouth.
And when I asked him to show me his nose because it looked like he had a bloody nose. Charlotte kept pointing to him and saying ‘oh, no. uh-oh. oh, no.’
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