Cookie Cutter Art

Counting 1-2-3 with Cookie Cutters and Paint!!

I have a great numbers cookie cutter set and have been thinking it would be fun to do number prints for a while now. Today we finally got to test them out!

We just worked with the numbers 1,2 and 3. Although Emily can count to 10 she doesn't recognize the numerals and she only knows the amount for 1 and 2. I thought if we kept it to just a few numbers at first it would be easier for her to understand.

Emily printed with the 1,2 and 3 cookie cutters with black and pink paint.

Emily really wanted to use her fingers so we decided to make fingerprints inside of the numbers. She did a great job with this!

I can't wait do some more as we keep on counting!!

TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 27 months old

Emily used primary colors to paint with after reading Warthogs Paint...we turned this into wrapping paper for Daddy's birthday present, which he loved!

Emily used her Winnie the Pooh stamp set to make Daddy a birthday card.

Emily went strawberry picking in our front yard!! We were both so excited that there were some red ripe strawberries ready to be picked.

Emily enjoyed her fresh strawberries for a snack.

This week we had a lot of fun at a hands on music program that was held at our local library. Many of the songs that we sang were about the farm. Emily's favorite song from the program was Shake Your Sillies Out...and she was so excited when we got in the car and that was the song that was playing too!!

Here is a You Tube video of the song...it is one of Emily's favorites!!

Our favorite books from this week:

• Ten Tiny Babies ~ Karen Katz
• The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear ~ Don and Audrey Wood
• Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book ~ Pamela Duncan Edwards
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ~ Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
  

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Strawberry Picking!!

Today some of our strawberries were ready to be picked and Emily and I both couldn't have been more excited!!

Every day we have been going to check on our strawberries...I pointed out the first white flowers a while ago and told Emily that soon there would be strawberries where we saw the flowers. Soon enough the tiny green strawberries appeared and Emily loved checking to see how big they were getting. Just the other day we noticed that they were turning red and finally today some were perfect for picking!!

Emily enjoyed a fresh strawberry snack right from our garden!

Of course we had to read The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear, by Don and Audery Wood after our snack. This has been Emily's favorite book this whole week. Emily loved that we shared the strawberries like in the book!!!

Emily Paints...

...Wrapping Paper

We have been enjoying the book Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book, by Pamela Duncan Edwards. This is a great book about mixing primary colors to get secondary colors. Emily has done some color mixing but this is the first time that I gave her RED, YELLOW and BLUE and let her do whatever she wanted with them. This is also the first time that Emily used her new easel.

Emily painted first with just the separate colors.

Then I told her to try mixing them. She had so much fun making orange, green and purple.

When she was finished we let the paint dry and used the paper to wrap Daddy's birthday present. Emily can't wait to give it to him for his birthday tomorrow!!

Muffin Tin Monday

A very ABC Muffin Tin Monday!!

This weeks theme for Muffin Tin Monday was Letters of the Alphabet. We stuck to the letters A,B and C for today's lunch. Emily was very excited to get her favorite Cookie Monster Alphabet Cookies for lunch!!

Here is Emily's ABC Muffin Tin

Top Row: Cookie Monster Alphabet Cookies, Blueberry Applesauce, Cheddar Bunny Crackers

Bottom Row: Alphabet Soup

Emily liked dipping her cookies in her blueberry applesauce.

The Blueberry applesauce was her favorite!!

Emily loves to have soup for lunch. I don't like that the cans of soup have so much sodium in them so I decided to make my own...it is really simple and I love that I know exactly what is going into it!!

Easy Alphabet Soup

• 1 can reduced sodium chicken or vegetable broth
• Alphabet pasta ~ or your favorite type of pasta (Emily loves tri-color tortellini too!)
• Frozen mixed vegetables
• Parmesan Cheese

Bring the broth to a boil, add in as much pasta and vegetables as you like, I usually add extra because Emily prefers more pasta and veggies and less broth. Boil till pasta and vegetables are tender about 7 minutes.

Top with Parmesan cheese and enjoy!!

TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool!!

Emily is 27 months old

Emily made a Red, White and Blue Tape Flag

Emily helped Mommy bake some Red, White and Blue Blondie Brownies

Emily had fun playing in the backyward...here she is getting silly string off of herself!

Emily enjoyed watching the Memorial Day Parade in our town. I was excited that she got to she my High School Marching Band. She was excited to see her friend's Daddy marching with the Fire Fighters!

Emily enjoyed playing with her ladybug. She made it go all around the house. She gave me a description of everything it was doing!

We visited the Children's Museum of the East End. Emily was able to intereact with all of the different exhibits.

This week we in TOTSchool Emily had a lot off life experiences!!

We are looking forward to getting back into our regular routine next week :0)

Our favortie books from this week:

• Wiggle ~ Doreen Cronin
• Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book ~ Pamela Duncan Edwards
• Bear Wants More ~ Karma Wilson
• Tiny Tadpole ~ Judith Nicholls

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Field Trip Friday!!

Our Trip to the Children's Museum of the East End

Today was a really rainy day so I told Emily I would take her to the Long Island Children's Museum, where we have a membership, however it turns out the museum was closed today for a special event. So instead we decided to take a little road trip in the rain to check out the Children's Museum of the East End. It was a much longer ride than I expected, about an hour and a half...I'm sure the rain didn't help, but it was a lot of fun!!

The museum has lots of hands on exhibits that deal with life and wildlife on the East End of Long Island. In addition there is a drop in art exhibit where Emily was able to paint with water colors and use clay and a get Active Exhibit, structures to climb and play on.

Here are some pictures from our trip:

What a great way to spend a rainy day!!

How do you like to spend your rainy days????