ABC and 123 Picnic Table Talk: Introduction

Thanks to ABC and 123 for the picnic invitation! I love a picnic with good friends, yummy food, and fun activities!

So, what's in our picnic basket?

I hope several chicken salad sandwiches, pasta salad, and a strawberry shortcake!

We are a family of four...my husband, Izzie (32 months), Mac (4 months), and me. Before staying at home with my girls, I was a high school Biology teacher for 5 years. Now, I'm having a blast watching my girls grow and learn.

I just recently discovered the "Blog World", but ABC and 123 was one of the first blogs that I found. I've been following Katie and Katie since the first day and now it's a daily tradition to read their blog while having my cup of tea each morning. It's nice to have so many resources in one place...now, I just need some help organizing all the wonderful information. I'm having a great time finding new activities for Izzie and she really likes having something new to do each day. Here are a few of my favorite actvities that we've done over the past few months.

• Theme Week Activities
  
• Speech

I look foward to reading more about others who share my desire to make early learning fun and memorable! For more great summer picnic posts, hurry over to ABC and 123.

ABC and 123 Frecklebox Giveaway

Check out ABC and 123 for their current summer giveaway from Frecklebox. Frecklebox has a ton of great personalized items that everyone will absolutely love! My favorites are the personalized books and puzzles!

Fun With Felt

I saw this project here and loved it! I finally finished my version of it. I really think Izzie is going to enjoy taking the flowers on and off the buttons. She likes matching, so I made one flower to match each button, so she can either match the flower with the matching button or mix and match.
I've seen examples of various felt food on many blogs and I've been wanting to give it a try. I started simple...eggs and a strawberry. I haven't sewn in years (probably since middle school home meck class), so this is exciting for me! They aren't perfect, but Izzie is already enjoying playing with them...so, they are perfect for me.

Tot School

Izzie is currently 32 months old.

Our theme book this week was "Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed". Click here to see all the fun activities Izzie did related to this book. She also had fun playing with...

Mr. Potato Head

Pouring skills

Scooping and transferring

Melissa and Doug Tool Set

Working her alphabet puzzle with the help of the hammer

Working her floor puzzle, which she can complete by herself

And having a great time with her Play-doh


For more fun Tot School ideas, click here!

Monkeys Jumping On Bed--Day 3

More monkey activities...

I thought Izzie would really like the Puppets, but she really wasn't interested in playing with them. I found the templates here.

We are working on numbers 0-5. Izzie enjoyed counting the monkeys and placing the monkey clothespin on the correct number. I found the counting cards here.