Honey Pot is 2 years and 3 months old
Little M&M is 5 months old
Books
We made our weekly trip to the little local library and
picked up a few books about frogs. A childhood favorite of mine, Frog and
Toad, is just a little too advanced for Honey Pot so I reluctantly left it
behind. We did, however, discover new books that were such fun to read. My
favorite of the three is Leap Back Home To Me, by Lauren Thompson. The
story is so simple and so sweet as a mommy frog watches her baby leap out into
the big world, and remains there for him when he returns home. Do check it out!
City Dog, Country Frog, by Mo Willems
Leap Back Home To Me, by Lauren Thompson
I Took My Frog To The Library, by Eric A. Kimmel
Snack
I first spotted this cute little snack from Pinterest, via a
blog called Clean and Scentsible. So adorable! And yummy too – Honey Pot ate
the entire thing. Instead of using cream cheese as “glue” though we used peanut
butter. It’s an absolute favorite in this house, and sure tasted great with the
apples!
Paper Bag Puppet
Our craft for the week was inspired by one I discovered from
DLTK-Kids, a website I have often visited since beginning Tot School. First I
offered Honey Pot the paper bag and green paint.
“I’m make a frog!” she exclaimed before getting started.
Then, after it had dried, we assembled the pieces. I let her
take full control of the glue, only showing her where to put it.
Here is the final product:
Then it was time to PLAY!
She loved this little guy. We forgot to give him a name. But
she had many laughs with him!
Frog Pond, Small World
This is our first “small world” sensory bin. The idea came
from the blog so humorously entitled You’ll Thank Me One Day. Honey Pot enjoyed
it greatly because she is a huge, huge fan of pretend play. The package of 8
frogs came from the Dollar Tree. I cut a few lily pads out of my craft foam,
already in my supplies, and added some flowers from my scrapbooking stash. Oh,
and a couple drops of food coloring to make the pond blue!
We talked about the lily pads and had a quick lesson on
floating versus sinking. Honey Pot had a fun time trying to balance the frogs
on the lily pads. And she played with them for quite a while.
We also put them all in a row and counted them up!
Here she is making her froggie leap into the water…over and
over and over again. J
Dressing For The Occasion
Little M&M is still quite young for our tot school
themes, but he did wear his very cute frog outfit, and play with his froggie
toys. What a cutie…
Lily Pad Color Matching
I quickly created a template for Honey Pot to match the
colors of the frogs to their lily pads. She had an easy time of it!
Each lily pad was numbered too; so then we tried some number
recognition. “Leap to the number four!” etc.
Letter Matching
I just wanted to practice some letter recognition with Honey
Pot, so I created this worksheet in Photoshop Elements. I printed it on
cardstock and used a circle punch from my scrapbook supplies to cut out the
letters. Honey Pot needed a bit of help matching the letters up, but we did it!
She even took the liberty of adding a green frog over the
picture!
Button Art
Honey Pot received this cute toy from Santa last Christmas. We took out the image of the frog, and popped the buttons through according to color. It had been a while since she played with this, so it was nice. She has definitely improved since then!
