Tot School ~ Pumpkins

Here are some of the activities that were on our tot trays this week...

Lovebug sorted our critters, by type (here ducks) and then by color. 

She worked on these Melissa and Doug shape puzzles...

She worked on this number puzzle... 

and this transportation puzzle (we had a big puzzle week, apparently). 

Yet another puzzle ;)

Working with our connectors (from Lakeshore). She loves sorting them by color... 

 We also took a fun trip to the pumpkin patch, where each child got to pick their own pumpkin. We had a great time :)

 The trip started with an educational intro on pumpkins...

Then we went on a hay ride and finally we got to pick our pumpkins..

Check out Carisa's blog to see what other tots have been up to this week... 

Tot School ~ Fall continued...

~Our little love bug is currently 24 months old~

We continued with our fall activities this past week. I made a sensory bin for the kids, which they loved. I included oats, textile leaves, and eraser pumpkins. Lovebug really enjoyed scooping the oats into our halloween pails...

We sorted leaves by color...

We worked on different Halloween crafts this week as well. Lovebug made a bat...

Later in the week, the kids enjoyed scooping corn kernels. 

Making Lego towers...

Working on a mommy-baby animal puzzle. 

Finger painting a fall painting :) Somehow the paint always ends up on love bug ;)

Tot School ~ Fall

~Our little Lovebug is currently 24 months old~

Our activities this week were mainly centered around fall. We worked on apple prints, which the kids loved. If you want to make apple prints make sure to cut your apple horizontally to expose "the star".

We noticed the changing season particularly this past week. While it is still sunny and warm (even hot) during the day, it cools down as soon as the sun begins to set. We also have quite a bit of wind in the late afternoons. We will have to go and fly our kites some time soon :) We enjoyed one of these windy evenings at the beach...

Smiley cut apart paint samples from the hardwood store for us one day, and our little one had fun matching them by color (I got two of each set). 

We then sorted by color group (all the yellows on one stack, the reds on another, the blues on another and the greens on another). 

Tot School ~ 2 YEARS old...

~ Lovebug is currently 24 months old~

Our little Lovebug turned 2 years old this week! So hard to believe that our baby girl is already two! It seems like yesterday that she was born! In addition to birthday celebrations, our week was filled with lots of activities...

Sensory Play...
At this young age, most of our time is filled with sensory play, imaginative play, and reading :)

Lovebug loves sensory activities. Here she is transferring water with a big spoon...

Color matching...

Building towers...

Exploring the feel of shaving cream :)

Lovebug was really interested in playing with our wooden blocks this week and built towers on several days...

Transferring beans with a spoon... She was really good at this and didn't spill a single bean. I was shocked!

Putting cheerios in little holes (and then eating them, of course)...

The same activity, but this time with different sized pom poms.

And some pictures of her birthday celebration. We had a fun nature party at a local part with our extended family. I made a waldorf inspired felt crown for our birthday girl. You can read my tutorial here.

Her birthday gift was a beautiful wooden kitchen. She loved it :)