Tot School - Dd

Tot School - Dd is for Dinosaurs, Dogs and Dr. Seuss

Owen & Eli: 37 months

Dinosaurs

I had big plans for this week - my boys love dinosaurs and I knew that everything I had planned would be really fun for them. My littlest ended up with a stomach bug for most of the week though, so most of my really fun activities had to be replaced with Dinosaur Train. They didn't mind (because they didn't know any better!) but I was a little disappointed. In case you have more time than I did, I was planning on making dinosaur fossils and getting bones from the meat counter at the grocery store to bleach and hide so they could pretend to be paleontologists. Leave me a comment with your email if you want instructions for the bones! We were able to fit in most of the activities from the Dinosaur Tot Pack from 2 Teaching Mommies and the alphabet tracing page for the letter D. Our paper plate craft this week was a brachiosaurus that they painted, decorated and glued all by themselves!

Dr. Seuss

We read several of Dr. Seuss's books this week and made a hand print craft into Thing 1 and Thing 2 (and added Thing 3 for Garrett!) We used our thumbprints to make Green Eggs too!

I printed most of the Dog Tot Pack to use this week, but I'm going to have to save it to use for P is for Puppies instead (how's that for creative thinking? : ) We would have had time to do those activities if I didn't spend most of my week like this... but I'll take all the snuggle time I can get!

Hope y'all had a great week in Tot School!

Green Eggs & Ham, Hold the Ham

In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday this week, we have been reading all sorts of his books - Cat in the Hat, The Foot Book, One Fish Two Fish, Fox in Socks, and our newest addition: Green Eggs & Ham! Just wanted to share this super simple (and delicious!) snack to make that goes great with Green Eggs and Ham. All you need is white chocolate, green M&Ms, wax paper and patience while they're hardening up in the freezer to not eat them all immediately : ) Melt the white chocolate in the microwave until about half of the chips look melted, then stir quickly to melt the rest. That ensures that you don't burn your chocolate. Then simply pour little drops of chocolate on the wax paper and let your kids place the M&Ms in the center. We put ours in the freezer for about 15 minutes to let them harden and then had our snack while reading the book. I love the idea of crafts (edible or otherwise) that go along with books. It makes learning so much more fun!