Fine Motor Skills with Cheerios!!!

Another great pinterest find to help work on our fine motor skills. I don't know how much practice the two little ones had other than pulling the Cheerios off and eating them - but they did have a lot of fun and we had smiles all around!!

Supplies:

Cereal with holes in the center

Plastic Cup

Wooden Kabob Sticks

Ready for fun toddlers!!! (Ha, Ha)

Colors and Fruit?!?! Why not?

So I had a great idea to try to emphasize the different color of fruit during breakfast. The night belfore I glued different color construction paper to paper plates. In the morning I placed contact paper over it because I didn't want the juices from the fruit to mix with the ink from the paper itself.  As much as I thought this was a great idea - the kids were caught completely off-guard. They literally didn't touch their fruit at all. This is a BIG surprise, especially for Michael that eats more fruit than most adults (in fact more than 2 adults combined). I left them out and eventually he realized it was real fruit and ate it. I still love the idea and showing fruit different visually is on the list from Michael's OT so even though the response was lukewarm it is probably worth some more exposure to help him continue to be more comfortable with eating food that looks a little different.



Letter E Day!

Yipee!! For the letter E!!! Today we started the day with our normal letter pancakes followed by our worksheet work.   Ms. Gabby loves elephants so we followed it up with mixing grey paint, and then making our very own elephants!! Since the painting and then gluing of objects is a two step process I work on the painting after breakfast and then finish the art project after lunch!! 

Letter E Worksheet

Make Your Own Elephant Supplies

In an attempt to bring multiple concepts into play we first mixed black and white paint in ziploc bags to watch it turn to grey. Then we painted our paper plates with paint brushes. Once they were dry we added trunks, ears and eyes.