Purple

Little M&M is 22 months old

Purple Coloring Page

I printed off a coloring page from Twisty Noodle and provided Little M&M with the purple crayon, dot marker and regular marker.

Purple Hunt and Discovery Basket

Little M&M went on a color hunt for things that are purple. I feel sure that he knows this color. He always points it out to us when he sees it. We started in his big sister's room, where he found lots of purple toys.

Then a couple from his room.

And even downstairs in his play kitchen.

When he finished his search, he had created a fun basket of purple things to explore throughout the week.

Purple Water Beads

Honey Pot explored these during her purple unit, and I just had to let Little M&M explore them too. They were such a hit, and yet we hadn't played with them since then. First, we hydrated them, by soaking them in 2 quarts of water for about 6 hours.

Honey Pot actually played with them first during Little M&M's nap. She plopped her feet in of course. Then she asked me to take silly pictures of her, and show each of them to her.

Then it was Little M&M's turn. He woke up so grumpy from his nap, but once I convinced him to put his hands in there, he was calm and happy.

He and sissy had nice practice in turn-taking as they each put their feet in.

The day I had planned to do this also happened to be a snow day. So we had a bin of snow next to this, and the tools and toys I provided for it made their way over to this bin. The kids scooped out water bead cereal to pretend to eat.

And loaded their dump trucks up with them.

We took this out the next day for play as well. Just as fun!

Purple Blocks

We built towers out of Honey Pot's Mega Blocks. He could do this for a long time!

"Knock't over?"

Sticky Paper Rainbow

We like to review each of the previous colors Little M&M has learned, and so we completed a rainbow craft today with Honey Pot, whom was also wrapping up her letter R unit. The idea comes from Mama Papa Bubba.

Honey Pot did most of this craft, but Little M&M did love putting the pieces onto the sticky paper. It wasn't always on the right color, but it was a nice review for him. We always identified the color of the paper that he picked up.

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Letter R

Honey Pot is 3.5 years old

Leap Frog Fridge Phonics

Introducing the letter of the week: we listened to Scout's song and identified two animals that start with the letter R.

Connect the Dots Worksheet

Honey Pot practiced prewriting as well as number identification by completing this worksheet from Education.

Pushpin Poking

She also familiarized herself with the letter's shape by poking a giant pushpin through it. 

Pattern Blocks

We printed out the letter R page from Confessions of a Homeschooler to use with her pattern blocks.

Prewriting Practice

We printed out dotted uppercase and lowercase R's for her to trace.

R Maze

Honey Pot was finally stumped by these mazes from Education. She ran into a couple dead-ends on her way to the finish!

R is for Rockets

This may have been the favorite activity of the week, inspired by Dollar Store Crafts. We printed out mirror-image rocket clipart, taped them together, leaving the bottom open, and put them at the end of a straw. Then Honey Pot could launch her own rockets!

She did this again and again. And she practiced backwards counting before each launch. First from 5-1 and then from 10-1! A fine number review.

Later, after seeing how much fun Honey Pot was having, Little M&M and Daddy each wanted their own rockets too.

Red Rover Game

Honey Pot has a fun game that reviews colors, as well as a few shapes, letters and numbers. She hasn't played it in a while, because she has outgrown it a bit. But she saw it up in the closet with her other games and actually requested it. She did awesome and it kept her quite entertained.

Sticky Wall Rainbow

This idea comes directly from Mama Papa Bubba. This was a perfect activity for both kids this week, as it aligned with Honey Pot's R unit, as well as helped Little M&M review all six colors he has covered so far. First I drew a rainbow onto contact paper, and I cut little pieces out of scrap paper.

The kids enjoyed sticking the pieces up there. Honey Pot had no trouble, but I often had to help Little M&M find the right color. Great review though!

Once it was finished, I put another piece of contact paper on top of it.

Playdough Rainbow

Playing House had a fun idea for our playdough play this week. We finally made a new batch of homemade playdough together. Then we squished two pieces of it into clouds, and Honey Pot created a rainbow out of pipe cleaners.

Plus we did some R cutouts, which she pretended was rain, falling beneath the clouds.

R is for Road

We started our last craft by cutting up strips of white paper for the road lines.

Then Honey Pot glued the R onto the paper.

And added the road lines that she cut out.

I found a set of cars to print out that she could add to the road too.

She loved her creation!

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