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My 3 year old was excited to play wishing well, but after a while she wanted to all the floating things to sink to the bottom, too. We stuck modeling clay (which is pretty water proof) onto the legos and playmobil pieces she had chosen to put in the bowl of water and kept adding more until it was enough to sink them. I’m sure there is a lot more you could do with modeling clay and water (make boats?) but this was a fun addition to the wishing well, for us.
Thank you both! I have requested a few books off both those lists. I have also found some lists and wanted to put them here in this forum in case anyone else has any questions about these books:
General Books about Gratitude:
https://happilyeverelephants.com/home/2018/10/2/favorite-books-about-gratitude?rq=gratitudeThanksgiving Toddler Books:
Thanksgiving Picture Books:
We love Sarah Mackenzie’s Read Aloud Revival, she has book lists for every month, and on the link below, there are at least three books with gratitude as a theme!
Enjoy! :)
https://readaloudrevival.com/picture-books-for-november/One more little job for the kids — have THEM peel garlic! I started this when my daughter was 2, and it is awesome to refine those fine motor skills and for her to pay attention to detail. Sometimes I smash it so it goes a little faster, sometimes I let her figure it out with no assistance. :) REALLY helpful if you’re making Julia Child’s mashed potatoes and have about 40 cloves to peel!
My kids are little (2 and 4 yrs old) and they absolutely love…
— Little Blue Truck series by Alice Schertle
— anything by Dr. Seuss (Cat in the Hat)
— Children’s Bible, which is beautifully illustrated and colorful
— The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
— Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
— Aesop’s Fables
— The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh
— Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
— The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
— The Rainbow Fish by Marcus PfisterAlso, when our books at home get repetitive, we make a trip to the local Library, where I let the kids pick one or two books each to borrow. Sometimes we hit the jackpot and find a new favorite, and sometimes we don’t, but it’s fun anyway.
After washing enough plastic bottles, we opted to skip sippy cups. We’ve been really happy using jam jars! We started our now-toddler on a sample size jam jar (i.e., 1.5 oz: https://www.specialtybottle.com/glass-jars/clear-straight-sided/short-metal-lid/1-5oz-jam1) around a year old, then he moved to a 4 oz jar around 1.5 years, and is now on a 6 oz jar at age three. Our adult glasses are 8 oz, so he’ll graduate to that eventually. All of our jars have been “free” (i.e., the cost of jam, although I think you can get these for super cheap at craft stores), upcycled, and small enough that dropping them never causes problems!
A few more favorites over here:
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey .-> very fun via audio
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Mix It Up by Hervé Tullet
The Giant Jumperee by Julia Donaldson
Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (find Goldbug on every page SO FUN!)Thank you so much, Erin! I thought I had replied to this earlier and just realized now that I hadn’t. Thank you for these wonderful links and for the support :)
I use a similar trick for task management, usually surrounding cleaning. I have a weekly list of cleaning to-dos and my kids have ideas in the Help Wanted box they made so they can join in. We set a timer for 20 minutes and say, “Ok it’s cleaning time!” and do as much as we can in those 20 minutes. When the timer goes off, we have a dance party! I’ve also used the 20 minute trick (I’m a round number kind of a girl lol) for decluttering. When I’m feeling overwhelmed with tackling a certain area in my home, I set a timer for 20 minutes and declutter as much as I can in that time. I don’t know if this REALLY counts as “me” time but it definitely helps me get through some otherwise daunting tasks :)
Hey all! So I’ve been doing the poems and such for the weekly breakfast reading, and just couldn’t get my 3yo to take hold. Which surprised me because he LOVES stories (omg I could recite 5 or 6 different Dr Seuss books front to back, we’ve read them so often. Actually, he can too! lol) and he LOVES songs. His memory for language-based things is incredible. So I asked him if he wanted to come up with some actions for the fall poem and he was on board! We co-created very simple actions to go along with the poem and he can now “sing” the entire thing. I’ll post a video in my IG stories for anyone needing some “actions” ideas – we do this with most of the songs we sing at the forest school I supply teach at and it’s amazing to see how quickly kids get into a song/poem when their bodies can get involved too! @blended_fam.3_girls_and_sam PS – I’m not sure if I’m allowed to share my instagram on here, Erin? I read through the Forum Policies and don’t think my IG account counts as a link to another website but if it does, pleas feel free to delete it!
Ok so instead of a rock sculpture this week, we stumbled upon an apple tree and were marvelling at all the apples on the ground! We found dozens that weren’t mushy (to avoid the bees!) and challenged each other to build towers with apples. Now let me tell you – this is no easy feat!!! But super fun 😊
