Tot School–Easter Theme

- Adam is 41 months and Abby is 14 months old -

The last 2 weeks were spent on a few Easter themed activities.  We’ve been really busy so Tot School has been very infrequent but I’m hoping to get back to “full time” this coming week.  It’s always a trade-off, one week I’m gung-ho about it and wind up exhausted, the next week I slack off and am driven crazy by a boy who obviously needs some structure in the day other than just playing.  Either way….I’m tired!  I have a sneaking suspicion that that will not change any time soon. :)

Lowercase/Uppercase Letter Match
from Musings of Me

Missing Number from Musings of Me
Adam had a hard time figuring out which number was missing unless he started counting from number 1.

Letter Ee Sort, also from Musings of Me

Jelly Bean Counting from Confessions of a Homeschooler 

Easter Egg and Flower dots pages from Mama to 4 Blessings

Sound Matching game
I got this idea from a couple of blogs.  I put pennies, bells, beads, and nothing in 2 eggs and then Adam had to match which eggs sounded the same.  I didn’t expect this to be hard for him, but it was.  I think he really just didn’t get why I was asking him to listen to them!  He just wanted to open them up and see what was inside!  Maybe we’ll try this again next year.

The kids had fun tossing, dropping, and chucking plastic eggs around the house….for days.

Water Colored Easter Eggs
We did this a few months ago and I thought it’d be a great Easter art project.  I cut coffee filters in egg shapes and then we dropped colored water on them with droppers.

Mostly Adam just likes playing with the water!

The finished product up in our window

Marshmallow Egg
Again, this idea came from somewhere in the blogosphere (I really need to be better at giving credit for art ideas!)
I made the shape of an egg with glue and we stuck white marshmallows on the outside, then colored marshmallows to decorate the egg.

Adam’s free-form art.
I was visiting with a friend and didn’t see just how much glue he dumped onto the page!

Here are just a few things Abby has done for Tot School lately.

Laugh & Learn Piggy Bank

Magneatos

Coloring

And the ever-present Baby Signing Time.Every time we walk downstairs she signs baby and says “Bee-bee…..bee-bee!” to let me know she wants to watch Baby Signing Time.  She is picking signs up like crazy though!  Just today she saw a doll in a book and signed doll.  Another new favorite is wind and rain.  Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE sign language for babies?  And how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Baby Signing Time to help teach them?  Here’s a link if you’ve never checked them out.

We didn’t get to a few other spring/Easter related activities so I may try and sneak those in this week before moving on to the Transportation Preschool Pack from Carisa at 1+1+1=1 and Jolanthe at Homeschool Creations. 

Stop by 1+1+1=1 for other great Tot Schoolers!