J, K, Valentine's Day & so much more!

Hammering golf tees into styrofoam

Pushing golf tees into styrofoam

Of course Mama helped with this one! V-day string art!

V-day sensory bin - rice and red beans!

Carlie loved it, too!

Homemade baby sensory board

She's attempting to "pop" the baby food jar lid!

Balancing marbles on golf tees

Puppet show time!

Resist artwork made with Post-it tape! We loved it!

I forgot to take a pic of the "after" -it looked really cool after we took off the hearts!

Homemade fine motor & matching game made with pieces of paint samples & clothespins, which I colored with corresponding colors.

"Take my picture with your phone"

Jewels on Jj

Kites on Kk

Counting chocolate chip dots onto our ladybugs!

Eating them was the most fun!

Baby sensory water bag

Winter Fun, Pretend Play, G, H, & I

H built a "Frosty" out of chair cushions, winter clothes, paint stirrers, & felt pieces!

I made ice cubes with water and food coloring & then H used them to "paint" her "Ii" - I froze toothpicks into them to make "handles," but popsicle sticks would've been better!

I drew her a snowy hill & she did the rest!

Getting in some glue stick practice, gluing on some "snow" (scraps from the 3 hole punch)!

Sidewalk chalk on black paper!

Color mixing & painting with shaving cream

Nursing her baby doll

Baby bath time, complete with towels, tub toys, & bubbly water!

Green Gg

Heart Hh

We spread a thick layer of glue & then tilted it up to drip down like icicles, and then we sprinkled it with salt.

This is our torn paper snowman (don't you love the strategic eye placement?)

Row, row, row your boat (I love imaginative play, especially when it involves her sister!)

Monsters, Ee, Ff, & Fall

Sorry for the absence! Between the hurricane & the power outage that ensued (not to mention having Daddy home for 4 days because of it), we kind of got out of our routine.  Throw in there transitioning to a toddler bed & we're all messed up!

Mommy made some monsters by putting paint on paper & blowing at the paint with a straw & then adding sticky eyes once it dried!

Haddy made some monsters, too!

We made Indian corn by dot-painting with a pencil eraser

Indian corn!

Really bad pic, but this is our Thankful Tree made from recycled cereal boxes.  I cut up pieces of paint swatches & each member of the family writes something they are thankful for each day (well, Mama helps out the small ones!) & adds it to the tree!  By the end of the month, our tree will be BEAUTIFUL!

Stamping elephants on an Ee.

Handprint elephants!

Hopping on squares!

Color sorting! 

Fingerpainted Ff!

Fall, Halloween, Orange, & More!

Coloring our fall acorn (after singing "I'm a Nut" together, of course!)

I added white glue to the top of the acorn & spread it out & then she sprinkled used coffee grounds (dried) over it.  We shook the excess off and allowed it to dry (while Mama cleaned up the inevitable mess!)!

The finished product is really cool looking & turned out better than expected!  It almost looks like velvet & doubles as a sun catcher when displayed up on the window!  When Haddy saw it, she said, "cool!"

Cc is for Candy Corn!  We made this using cut up pieces (triangles for the shape of the month!) of paint samples! You could easily use construction paper, but I love the color effect that the paint samples give it, plus I have a million of them to experiment with!

Here is Hadley proudly displaying her work!  I have a huge stack of paint samples from my dad (hardware store manager). He told me that about once a month, they take the paint sample from the front of the stack out and (usually) throw it away, to counteract fading in the samples over time...I foresee many creative uses for paint sample crafts in our future!

The finished product!

Handprint ghosts for Halloween!

Haddy's been obsessed with the moon lately, but we haven't been able to see it because it's been cloudy, so Haddy's making a cloudy moon scene for the letter Cc!

Cc is for cookie!  Inspired by her recent love of tea parties, we played a quick memory game to see if Hadley could remember which tea cup I had hidden the cookie under!

We also made Honey Peanut Butter No-Bake cookies together (for Cc)!  Recipe found here!  We read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" while they were setting up!

We also mixed up some orange "cloud" shaving cream for a sensory activity.  H is afraid of shaving cream (I think she doesn't like the way it moves) as far as touching it goes, so for now, we'll stick with the bag mixing technique!

Mix away, little one!