Dominos

Today we played with dominos
Check out the videos below

Balancing Butterfly

What we used:
Cardboard
2 coins
tape
scissors

What we did:
Fold a paper in half and trace half a butterfly. Make sure the bottom wing is larger and hangs lower than the top. Cut it out. Then trace on cardboard and cut out. Color the butterfly. Tape a coin on each of the bottom wings. You may have to play with them to make sure it is even. Balance the butterfly on a pencil, finger, even your nose.

Guitar

What we used:

Box
rubberbands
scissors
pencil

What we did:
Cut a hole in the box. Stretch rubberbands around box. Slide pencil under rubberbands. Play music!!!

Fingerpaint

What we used:
To make the paint...
1 cup flour
2 TB salt
1 1/2 cups cold water
1 1/4 cups hot water
food coloring

Combine in a pot, cold water, salt, flour, beat with a whisk.
Heat at medium and then slowly stir in hot water.
Keep stirring until it thickens.
Remove from heat.
Beat until smooth with a whisk.
Divide into small bowls and add food coloring.
When cool, PAINT!

Obstacle course

We made an obstacle course today. This occupied the boys for hours!
We used random items we found around the house:
small chair
yoga blocks
bucket
stool
floor mat
hula hoop and twine to tie it up
sit and spin
circle shapes
an edge to a rubber mat (straight line)

They started by running circles around the chair and then the bucket. Balance on the yoga blocks and then up and over the stool. Mats were set up on the other side so they could jump off. Jump through the hula hoop. Spin on the sit and spin. Step on each circle and then balance on the straight line. Jump off the end of the line over the edge of the hallway and you're done!

This was great. They want to do another one tomorrow! You can could use anything. Anything you can step on, climb on, crawl under, jump over, run around, balance on. I was thinking couch cushions would be great....maybe we'll use those today. This is fun and great exercise. Great for winter days when it's too cold to play outside!

Keepsake boxes

So sorry to be MIA! Spent the week with the kids rotating a stomach virus between them, and my husband. Ick! Luckily I made it through healthy, it's never good when mom is sick!

What we used:

box
construction paper
scissors
glitter
glue
puffy craft balls (no idea what they are really called)
Optional: Anything small that could glue to the box. We were going to use beads, but I was afraid the glue wouldn't keep them stuck forever, and with a one year old that would pick them off and eat them....yeah, didn't use them.
Paint: we didnt use paint, but you totally could.

What we did:
We started with cutting out a bunch of shapes out of the construction paper. We (and I mean everyone, this was a great craft for everyone) glued the paper and the balls to the box (and you can glue whatever else you want to use) After they were done gluing I wrote their name with glue on the side (good for name recognition and learning to read) and they covered it with glitter.

This (semi) finished product
(the boys want to add more on, and we will, just not today)

Birthday Cake

It's my birthday...so the boys frosted a cake for me. They had a great time!

The Finished product, lol