Activity Bag Exchange: Shades of Color

Today Charlotte and I did another activity from the Activity Bag Exchange – Shades of Color.  Charlotte LOVES these, but I think it helps that we present them to her as games!  Anyway we started by sorting the different colors and then Charlotte attached each color in the proper column.  We had fun and she really liked that I kept asking her to show me how to play the game – she loves being the teacher any chance she gets.  

 

After we play this a few more times I will start to show her how to sort by shades and not just by color.   

Activity Bag Exchange...It's Here!!!

Yippee, Charlotte’s Activity Bag Exchange box arrived!   

I posted a few weeks ago about the cross county swap and our contribution {here}.   So many people have asked me about this swap and wanted to know what we received.  Thought I'd share a VERY short list of the first ten or so activities I pulled out of the box: 

Shades of Color
Mr. Potato Head Magnet Activity
Tongue Depressor Puzzles
Magnetic Fishing Color Game
Pom Pom Patterns Activity
Macaroni Necklace Activity
Pony Bead Patterns Activity
Bug Counting Cards & Felt Numbers Game
Felt Cupcake Decorating Kit
Card Making Kit
Shape Hunt & Sort Game
Measure It Activity
Play Dough and Play Mats Activity
ABC Puzzles
Telling Time Pizza Activity

This was a great experience and so far Charlotte has LOVED every activity we’ve done.  Can’t wait to see what she thinks of all 30 activity bags…stay tuned!

Comfort Food

Chicken Broccoli Bake

It’s been a hard couple of weeks and it’s not going to slow down anytime soon.  Enter chicken, broccoli, rice and cheese – how can you go wrong with that?

Charlotte Matches Her Name!!

While shopping at Target yesterday, Charlotte and I picked up some foam letter stickers from their dollar bin.  Last night Wayne and I had fun spelling short words for her with the stickers.  

This afternoon I needed to work on my computer and Charlotte wanted to get the letters out again.  I busted those foam babies out thinking I would be able to work on my computer at the same time.  On the fly I asked Charlotte if she wanted to spell her name and decided to write it out for her to “match” the letters.  I was hoping this would keep her busy for a while but she surprised me and worked through her name very quickly.  It was neat to watch her search the pile for the right letters, turning them around and holding them up to the paper.    Once she found a letter that she thought matched Charlotte would ask me if it was the right letter.  “J” for “L” and “Q” for “O” had her confused but otherwise she was amazingly fast.   

 

Once Wayne came home, Charlotte was so proud to show him what she spelled.  After dinner they worked on Charlotte's middle name, Morgan, and she impressed her Daddy then too! 

Play Date With Cousin Brennan

This morning Brennan came over for a short play date with Charlotte.  They were so cute together playing cars, Legos, fishing for letters, making food in the play kitchen and watching a movie.  Charlotte LOVED having Brennan over but she made me laugh when she kept acting like she was the teacher and kinda moving Brennan along from one activity to the next.  She would randomly start singing the “Clean Up” song and picking up the toys so they could go the next activity.  He was a really good sport about the whole thing EXCEPT when Charlotte tried to get him to play with her babies.  THAT was hilarious because she could not figure out why Brennan wasn’t interested in pushing the baby around in it’s stroller and her was just looking at her like Charlotte was crazy!  Adorable!   

It was so fun to be a fly on the wall and watch their interactions.  Usually we are all together in one big loud chaotic group so you spend your time counting heads and breaking up disagreements.  It was nice to just stand back and watch them enjoy their play date.