Luv Bug is 35 months old
I usually try to have a theme for Luv Bug, but we always make sure we keep up with our letters. We do each letter for 2 weeks. I've been wanting to do a music theme for awhile and it happened to fall on an M week.
I set out 5 trays this week:
Luv Bug taught herself to count to 100 a few weeks ago, so I wanted her to see what 100 looked like. I first saw these magnetic pom poms
here.
This was great for her little finger muscles. She wanted to send this to work with Daddy and have him hang it on the wall in his office:)
These
awesome cards I found at Counting Coconuts. Their meant to be 3 part or nomenclature cards but we used them as a matching game.
There are a LOT in this set. Luv Bug loves matching games but this seemed overwhelming so I just set out a few and she matched her instruments to them.
After she matxhed them all, we played a game where one of us would close our eyes while the other would play one of the instruments. The one closing their eyes had to guess which instrument the other played. Luv Bug was really good at this and we both had a lot of fun with it.
I've been trying to do a bit of cutting practice each week with Luv Bug. She's been doing well, so I thought she'd enjoy making a collage after cutting her picture strips.
She really enjoyed this and asked for more scraps of paper. She spent quite awhile at this.
I love this alphabet train I found at
Kidsparkz. The link is to their alphabet printables page, you just need to scroll down to find the alphabet train.
I saw this idea over at
The Princess and the Tot a few weeks ago and I just had to do this with Luv Bug.
Since we'd never done this before, I had her look over the items and feel them before I put them in the bag. I let her put her hand in and asked if she could tell me what she had. She amazed me with this. I'm going to have to add more items because she had no problem guessing what she grabbed.
Another time I asked if she could find a specific item. This was her favorite tray this week. She would fill the bag with toys, peek in, tell me what she was going to grab, then scrunch her little eyes shut and pull it out. It was SO cute.
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Some of our music activities:
This puzzle is part of a
set I posted about
here. It's double sided, the back had several instruments on it:
I had saved rainbow colored rice from an old sensory bin. I added these little snack containers from the Dollar Tree to make rice shakers. Luv Bug loved this bin. It took about 2 minutes to set up, but she played with it for a long time. (it seems she prefers the simpler bins).
She even got in some pouring practice.
Since we were learning about music, I printed a few printables from
1+1+1=1's letter x Tot School printables.
I set out all her little instruments and we had fun just exploring them.
It's upside down, but my mom had given Luv Bug a Little Einstein music learning book. We used the directions in the book to make our own horn.
It didn't work too well, but Luv Bug really liked painting the cardboard tube.
I put Luv Bug in our shower stall and let her use her cymbals to paint. She had so much fun doing this.
Carisa at
1+1+1=1 made this wonderful Little Einstein Tot Book. You can find it in
this post.
Lining up the alphabet cards.
She LOVED the character do a dot pages. (Luv Bug had never watched Little Einsteins until this day...she's a fan)
Since we were learning letter M, I printed this do a dot sheet from
Confessions of a Homeschooler's letter M preschool page. Luv Bug usually loves the do a dots, but asked for a crayon to connect the dots instead.
Another printable from
1+1+1=1's letter x printables.
We used baby food jars to make a xylophone. I used only 4 instead of 8. We used different implements to strike the jars to see which made the best sound.
We both really enjoyed this week. I definitely want to incorporate more music activities into her play.
