Pipe Cleaners and Beads

Ugh, the rain.  I know we need it and all, but it really limits our summer activities when it's all yucky out.

The boys didn't seem very interested in this project.  The girls, on the other hand, loved it. 

I started out by asking if they wanted to make bracelets, but they ended up coming up with more ideas than just that.  It took a while for the boys to even come into the room.  Daven put on a few beads.  Cameron twisted a few pipe cleaners together.  And then they were done.  After all, there was golfing to do.  Deedee and Momo, however, made quite a collection of beaded treasures!

Easter Egg Color Matching

Here's a seasonal way to practice identifying and matching colors.  Use some of your existing plastic eggs and put something that matches it's color inside.  We used pom poms or poofies. 

We started with the pom poms already inside their matching egg.  Daven opened all of them and we talked about what color they were.  After he had gone through all of them, he matched them back up and put them in the basket.

It's not a new concept and I'm sure plenty of people have done either this or something similar to it before.  But we both had fun doing this together.  He still gets stuck at times, but picks right back up once you give him the starting sound to the correct color.

As always, Mia wanted to participate in what bubby was doing.