Next week we will be leaving on a family vacation and I have been planning plane activities and some stuff to bring for L-Bug to do in our room so she isn't bored or always watching TV. I am super excited with the way these actives came out and how simple everything was to put together. It took me probably 30mins to gather all the stuff and put them in the bags! I ended up with seven activity bags but they can all be use multiple times and some have more than one game or activity. I used quite a few different bag types to fit the different materials. The left bag is a draw string bag. I needed a larger bag for this activity because of the size of the mail carrier. This is a simple lacing art activity from Mother Goose Time! Then it turns into a game Bug can play to deliver mail to all of our family and friends cruising with us. On the right I used a random bag I already had. Our vacation week we are working on reading -at words. So I included a Mother Goose Time "I Can Read" book and the Your Baby Can Read flash cards. We have been using these flash cards with our basic reading words and L-Bug has been doing GREAT!
I decided to throw in this fun travel kit I got at Costco. She used it on our last plane ride and it was easy and fun for her to play with. There are dry erase cards(numbers and letters), a work book, coloring pages, flash cards, etc.. It fold ups pretty tight and is easy to carry. Above are all seven bags packed with their activities! Everything fit nicely inside a regular size school bag and I had room in the front zipper pocket to slip L-Bugs Innotab and games into. I used another pencil pouch for all the game so they weren't just loose in there and added extra batteries too. I was inspired by this micro-training video that Mother Goose Time did a while ago! When I was watching it I immediately thought of our upcoming trip and the two long plan rides we were going to be on! Not to mention those times when we will be in our cruise stateroom getting ready for dinner or something and L-Bug will need something to do.
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This interactive manipulatives board is seriously one of the best additions to our school room! This month I got the idea to add magnetic pieces to the back of our Mother Goose Time story board pieces. Now the kids can put them on the board and tell the story!
As soon as everyone had a little time playing with the board together we sat in a circle around the board and I had one person at a time tell us a story! Some mimicked my picnic story, others talked about Granny taking a nap, and we even had one story with Big Bad Wolf eating all the lunch.... :P
This week the kids were really into stories! So I grabbed up a few of our "I Can Read" Books from our past Mother Goose Time kits and we did a word find. The kids had fun telling me the stories and then hunting for their special arrow word! KK was very into hunting for the word! She was so good at it :) Every time they would find the word we would shout it out! I think that may have been the best part of the activity for some of them! I got the fun idea after watching this micro-training from Mother Goose Time! Within the next few weeks I'll have a post about busy bags like this that I plan to create for my own daughter :)
One thing that really get's kids thinking are those little manipulative toys with open ended ways to play with them! When toys have multiple ways they can be played with a lot is left up to the imagination of the child. Another reason I love manipulatives is because you can use them for math! Counting, sorting (by color or size) and creating patterns are all some easy ways to teach math. Check out KK and Big Boy B using the farm animals (from this month's Mother Goose Time theme) and these awesome wood farm counter chips I got from a Citrus Lane box a while back! From lining app the chips and counting them out one by one (like KK did in the pictures below), to playing hunt and find the number (like you see the kiddos doing in the images above). Both ways were fun games that the kids enjoyed playing! Check out Baby O playing with these super fun stacking blocks! He did so well finding the hole and sticking the peg in it. After he had some time exploring and manipulating the pieces I showed him how to connect a bunch of them and I created a box with him. I noticed after he had this to grip he was able to control the pieces much better and fit the peg into the holes easily! More than focusing on math with him I worked on colors! I asked what color he'd found, showed him the colors I was using and even did a few patterns in the box I built. Speaking of stackers check out these ones that Big Boy B was using! He really enjoyed making towers, airplanes and I think he even called one a Banana :) Again here we did some counting and color identification. But he was having more fun being imaginative with this set of manipulatives so I let him lead the game. Math doesn't allows have to be about the numbers. With really little ones it is as simple as starting with colors and shapes. As they get older they'll start to enjoy counting games! Soon they'll even be able to identify the numerals! When I was brainstorming for this activity I was shocked by the amount of manupilatives I now have! My collection sure has grown over the past two years thanks to Mother Goose Time!!!
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