Letter I and Fun Play

Kate finished up her letter I activities this morning.  She loves Elephant and Piggie books; Reagan does too, and often reads them to Kate.

I showed Kate how to use an ink pad to stamp the letter I.  She liked this, and she is now napping with quite a bit of blue ink on her hands, arms, stomach, and face.  I washed off what I could, but that ink isn't as washable as it claims to be.

It is a dreary, rainy day, so we spent the whole morning playing.

Since Kate enjoyed cookie cutter stamping, I thought she might like these little stamps with the small ink pad that Reagan uses, but Kate prefers the cookie cutters and the large ink pads.

Kate asked for her bears, and she sorted them in the correct bowls.

This magnetic ballerina was dressed and undressed over and over again.

Kate also played tea party, sandwich shop, and veterinarian today.  She loves to play with her toys.  Collin and Kate have this in common.  Tyler and Reagan hardly ever (Reagan still doesn't) played with toys.

We are also having a snowman theme this week, but I'm saving that for another post.  Unfortunately, we don't have any real snow, just rain!

I is for Ice Cream

Our current theme is I is for Ice Cream.  The ice cream scoops and cones are popular around here. We have had them since Collin was Kate's age.  Inside each scoop is the corresponding color word. They are from Learning Resources.  We are missing two of the scoops - red and brown, but the set has held up really well.

Kate loved scooping snow into her play ice cream cones.  I refilled the snow bowl three times.  This was a great way for her to play in the snow without getting cold.  She scooped, dumped, and scooped again for a long time.

 Kate received this PlayDoh ice cream set for Christmas.

 Her favorite part of the set is definitely the whipped cream.

Collin and Reagan joined her later in the day.  Everyone enjoyed making ice cream treats.

They had some real ice cream too, but I didn't get any good pictures of that!

 She colored and glued together her own ice cream cone.

Here she is "reading" Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop.  She is very good at retelling stories right now, and also very good at making up her own stories to go along with books she is not familiar with yet.

We had this ice cream cone chalk that Kate thought was kind of neat.

I made her ice cream for breakfast.  

Kate also enjoyed stringing alphabet beads this week.  Her attention span allowed us to string A-K; she did all of the stringing, I just handed her the letters.

The letter stringing set is made by Alex Toys.  It's cute, and Kate seems to enjoy it.  The stringing is great fine motor work.