Tot School: Halloween & Spiders

Tiger is 28.5 months old.

We are no longer following a theme strictly but since it was Halloween

and he had a thing for spiders recently...I felt inspired as well :)

Here are some of the stuff we did:

 This was a fix-the-skeleton fine motor work.

Mission: reattach the joints of shoulder and hips.

It was harder than it looks

When he finally did it, he did a little dance of victory.

Painting is always a favorite activity of Tiger's.

We did some foam painting with shaving cream and spiders.

He chose yellow and orange.

A wonderful sensorial experience.

I was delighted that he enjoyed it so much and didn't complain about dirtying his hands.

Having said that, he requested to wash up the moment he was done.

Dot painting is still a hit.

 Painting with Crayola paintbrush.

Just to reinforce his colours and fine motor skills.

He asked, "Colour inside line?"

I answered, "You can colour anywhere you like. No restrictions."

Tiger replied, "Silly mama"

Tracing lines with his dry erase board and markers

Matching silicone shapes

Matching lowercase to uppercase letters

Care of self: Dress-up bear.

He could manage the zipper, velcro and button himself.

This is a logic puzzle that was free with purchase of Enfagrow sometime ago.

He is an expert but failed to conquer the master level.

Maybe in a few more months...

We usually start 'school' with tot tray activities.

Some activities allows me to leave him for a while to prepare his right brain stuff.

Time is so precious nowadays..

Linking up to Tot School

Bye-bye Shapes Sensory Box

These are the last pics you will see of the shapes box. If I have to listen to this song again, I swear, I will eat the laminated shape finders.
Having said that, we did learn some from this annoying box.

Firstly, Tiger said "shapes" which sounded more like 'cheps'. It became the auto answer to "What do you want to do?" AND the first thing he says in the morning.

How do I say no to this monkey grin?

Dancing to the shapes song in the morning

Still dancing in the afternoon...

He also liked square and circle more than the other shapes

 

He is able to differentiate the two and only circle goes round and round. Now, he turns everything that is round. I found 2 CDS in the box one day. Hehe..they were round too.

He selected the pop-up shapes book from the shelf. Fluke?

So, we explore the shapes further by matching, comparing,etc

When I refuse to play the song again and again and again, he thinks the song will replay if he touches the mouse. Hehe...

And that's the end of the shapes sensory box. Seriously, I've had nightmares of a triangular croc biting me with the song playing in the background. Rest in peace, my box.

Shapes and Colour Sensory Box

This is our shape & sensory box that thankfully, Tiger enjoyed.

I think he likes this song from Youtube more than the box.  Wait, that's an understatement. He has learned to sign 'yes' from his desire to hear the song. This happened when he woke up one day:

Mommy: Morning baby, I love you.
Tiger     : Push Mommy away. Signs 'open' vigorously. (He wants to switch on the PC)
Mommy: What do you want to open?
Tiger     : Walks to the study room and says, "Sheps, sheps"
Mommy: You want to sing song?
Tiger     : Shakes head
Mommy: Yes or no?
Tiger     : Puts one hand on his head and bends his knee repeatedly. Bwahahahaha. That's how he nods his head. Note: This is what happens when you use YOUR hand to make your child nod his head.

Mmmm......this little boy of mine makes me ROFL, then fall in love over and over again.

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Here's Tiger with the box:

Choosing his shape finder

I say the colours as he lays the flowers out

Messing around

Matching shapes and sponges

Dropping the flowers. There is a nice floating effect

Ingredients in box:

1. Shape finders from here which I cut and laminated. Since he isn't able to find objects in the house that matches the shape yet, I didn't put in a popsicle stick.
We use them to dance to the song and make silly faces through the clear parts.

2. Base material: Polyester flowers from a lei I got from Fun & Cheer. RM3.50 only.

3. Wooden shapes from Melissa & Doug Sorter for stringing

4. Shape sponges from Craft Haven. (Will be using them for art this weekend)

5. Plus-size pom poms and some sparkly ones for fun

6. The round thingy at the bottom left of the pic is a nylon string with stopper that came with some manipulatives I bought earlier. You can use a large button for stopper.

That's all. Easy peasy and so much fun :)

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