Letter Kk (and a little baby play....)

 After some holiday fun, we started Letter of the Week again with the letter Kk! Marin turned 2 on December 27 and its so strange how big she seems now when we do these little activities. It's like she grew up over night. Yikes. But....Letter Kk is for kisses, keys, kites, kitchen science and kangaroos!

We read "Counting Kisses", traced the letter K with our finger and read (and maybe acted out) the little Kiss poem. :o) 

This was our Kisses game board.
We rolled the die and then added pompoms on the kisses for each number we rolled.

Kk is for keys.
She traced the dotted line from one set of keys to the other.

She did it a few times.
I love the puckered lips. 

Then in true toddler fashion, she scribbled all over the page. :o) 

Do a Dot Paint pens with the letter K....

This isn't K stuff but we have been talking about colors a lot. Mostly in normal conversations,  books,  games, etc.
But this is the color parking lot. She will park her car on the color I call out.
So far she really knows orange, purple, and sometimes blue, green, and yellow. :o) 

K is for Kite. She got to tear and cut some colorful tissue paper and then glue it on her kite. 

This was probably my most favorite activity. Kitchen Science!
She dropped colored vinegar into a pan of baking soda. It fizzled up and was so very neat!
She had a hard time with the dropper though. It was good fine motor skill practice though.

Hollis had her own sensory activity going on during our experiment. :o)

She eventually mixed all the colors together :o) and we put them in a squirt bottle.
 Much easier for her to use. She had so much fun! 

 Scientist Hollis came over for a closer look. 

Marin really likes for us to write her name and shapes on her magna doodle.
She will "say" each letter of her name and point. It is really adorable.
But the other day I did the whole shebang on some paper and then I colored in one of the circles and then let her color in the other one.
This is what she did! What!?!? I think that is pretty darn good for a new little 2 year old. 

And Hollis is definitely much more aware of what is going on and makes it known quite often that she wants to participate. :o) So, we did a little game just for her!
She was so funny. She knew this was for her and she was PROUD.
The game....drop the pegs down the paper towel roll. :o) 

She was much more interested in the tape on the roll at first.
But then she got the hang of it and had a lot of fun.
The clang as the peg hit the floor was a bit hit as well!