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...

Letters Oo and Pp

  So we are speeding things up a bit since we are moving and packing....BUT Marin still LOVES to have a little project. And since we are in crazy mode, it is easier to plan one or two little activities with each letter instead of a full weeks worth. Plus most of our stuff is packed. So we are going to do a couple of letters a week until we move. Here is Oo and Pp.....

Do-A-Dot with an Octopus!

  

Creating an ocean collage with animal sponges, tissue paper, and stickers. 

Hollis "playing" Marin's math game on the Ipad. She cracks me up on this thing. 

Making a penguin for the letter Pp. 

Playing with the Pp on the Letter Factory toy. 

Marin's penguin. :o) 

Potato Printing

Hollis had so much fun doing this little project!

Marin did pink potato prints because we cut them out and turned them into pigs. ;o)