What We've Been Up To

It's Been a while since I've posted, so here is what we have been doing. I have been following this blog called Play at home Mom and they have so many ideas of simple ways to get playing and interacting with your kids. They stress that the best way to learn is through play and sensory. So I have been gathering bins and spoons and anything I see at the dollar store that might be fun to play with. One day we played with dried beans and using spoons, they transferred them to smaller containers. They had fun and beans were all over the place.

Another day I decided to try out these water bead that are all over Pinterest and Play at home Moms. They are so neat feeling and the kids enjoyed squishing and bouncing them all over the floor. For someone like me, I was going a little crazy with the disorder and chaos, but that is the whole point of PAHM is they encourage moms to just let go and let the kids learn through mess and play. They did want to eat them and it was hard to keep my eyes on two little ones at once but they will eventually learn what they can and can't put in their mouths.

We also celebrated the Lorax by going to a Dr. Seuss reading at Target and they got goody bags with Lorax mustaches in them.

Another great idea from PAHM is playing with glow sticks in the bathtub. The kids really enjoy that one.

This winter we didn't even get our usual one morning of snow to play in but we did get a little flurry that we let the kids out to see. They were amazed by this weird stuff floating around.

And one other fun thing the kids love to do is play together in our little indoor pop up tent. We spent a whole morning pretending and playing in it. So much fun.