Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Fun Toddler Stuff :)

Over the past month or so, I've been trying to be a little more creative with activities Hannah Beth & I do together...partly because I know I won't have nearly as much one on one time with her very soon when baby brother comes, and also because she gets bored kind of easily and loves new activities!
There are so many awesome ideas out there, between blogs, Pinterest, toddler activity books...the list goes on.
My goal has been to try 4-5 new activities each week. I have a huge list of things I still want to try with her...we'll see how that goes, but here are a few things we've done so far :) Some were successful...some not as much. I put * next to the ones she liked the best that we will most likely try again sometime.


*Playing with dry pasta

*We took a priority mail cardboard box and made it into a doll bed.

 *Coloring on the floor with large pieces of paper taped down

 It's hard to tell what this is from the picture - I taped contact paper sticky-side up onto the kitchen floor and let her walk on it. She wasn't a huge fan.

 Pulling ribbons through a hole in a paper plate

* Alpha-Bits cereal on peanut-butter bread (a yummy snack too)

 I tied various small objects to pieces of yarn and taped them to her tray - I would recommend using stronger tape; she figured out how to pull the whole thing off.

* "Gloop" - this one was messy but a huge hit! Just a mixture of cornstarch and water

Homemade hats out of construction paper 


*Another big hit - mix a little food coloring with milk and have your child "paint" a piece of bread - we even toasted the bread and ate it with peanut butter for a snack!

*This is one you can do over and over once you make it - match the eggs with the colors on the bottom of the carton.

*First time fingerpainting!