some quiet time activities.....

I found some more Pinterest/blog ideas for quiet time and church activities. 

First, a little dry erase activity notebook. I printed off some sheets with their names, numbers, and shapes and put them in sheet protectors. They can color and trace with a dry erase marker and then erase with a washcloth. 

 I found these yellow foam letter tiles at the Dollar Tree and decided to make some "Word Mats" for Marin to match the letters. Loved it. It was a great independent little game. She doesn't take naps anymore (tear) so this will go in the "quiet time" box. 

Not really a quiet activity but very independent for Hollis....dropping the poker chips in the can. 

Nursery Rhymes: Jack and JIll

Next came....

Jack and Jill (Part One)

The girls colored and glued a hill and Jack and Jill. 

 See those cute crayons?? They were a special gift from Aunt Carole. They are all super fun shapes and the girls love them. 

Hollis was making Jack and Jill go up the hill until they needed a kiss. :o)

Marin's Jack and Jill project. 

Marin did this shapes sort while Hollis was napping. She did it all by herself. I was pretty impressed she didn't have glue all over the place. :o)

We are going to one more little water play Jack and Jill activity with their pails. ;o)

Nursery Rhymes: Little Miss Muffet

The next rhyme we did was Little Miss Muffet! This is probably Marin's favorite because when we act it out, she sits on my knees (tuffet) eating her curds and whey. When the spider frightens her away, I throw her on the couch. She thinks its hilarious and it may be an arm workout for me. 

Little Miss Muffet

Hollis LOVES LOVES LOVES markers. Some how they end up all over her body (mostly her mouth)  but she gets so excited when we pull them out. Here she needed a marker for each hand...busy worker coloring her rhyme book. 

Marin has been wanting to color the entire picture these days. 

Then we painted an egg carton spider. We had multi colored spiders. :o)

Looking so big....

Our projects....a little book and spider. 

Nursery Rhymes: Hickory Dickory Dock

I have seen some cute nursery rhyme stuff on Pinterest. So we decided to do some projects with our favorite rhymes. 

First was Hickory Dickory Dock...

We used an old yogurt box to make a clock. Glue is always a favorite. 

Then we talked about the numbers on a clock and put number stickers on their own clocks.

Hollis had her stickers all over her clock until she saw Marin's. And in true little sister fashion, she peeled each of stickers off and put them on the circle just like Marin's. She has to be just like big sister.

Here are their finished clocks! I made the mice out of felt and hot glue. Since it was hot, I just made them separately. But they will "act out" the rhyme making the mouse move up and down the clock as we say it. It's pretty cute.

Bad Frogs

We decided to do a little painting project earlier in the summer with one of library books....Bad Frogs. It's a cute little story and the girls, of course, had fun painting.

She was so careful to paint the entire frog. Serious concentration. 

Hollis' frog

Marin's frog