Beach

We did some beach-y activities to get ready for our trip to the beach. (We just returned...it was a fabulous trip!) 

She put together beach popsicle puzzles.
Marin loves puzzles. 

Our "work baskets"... popsicle puzzles, fish I spy cards, fish measurement, and color  ocean animal match. 

We love castles around here. So I printed out some sand castle pictures.
We talked about them and then built a few with play doh and then later on the beach with sand. Marin loved these cards.
 

Hollis doing her color sort. She was/is HILARIOUS with this. Every once and a while she would do correctly. But most of the time, she would get a real stinker look on her face and put it on the wrong one just to see what I would do. If I corrected her, she would yell very strongly "NO!" and move it back to the wrong spot. Uh, yeah, this one beats to her own drum. 

Measuring with gems.

We used pieces from our  puzzles to put land animals on the land and ocean animals in the water.  The "land" was a little too colorful and Marin really just wanted to match animals to a color. Hey, that'll work. 

We played with seashells. 

Then...

painted seashells...