Sort of a Sorting Game

Working it out...

I love Mailbox Magazine and when it comes every month, I flag pages to try with W. Today's activity was a sorting game. I bought a bag of small pom poms from JoAnn Fabric for about $1.50 and emptied them into a plastic container (which he then emptied onto the floor). Then I gave W a mini muffin tin. The idea was to sort the pom poms into color groups. So that didn't work very well...though OCD boy did work hard to get all of the pom poms into the tin. We named the colors while working with them, but trying to get them into the matching tin didn't gel.
We will keep trying - as with all things toddler.

Here is what it is supposed to look like.

Here is what it actually looked like upon completion.

Wyatt, working hard to figure it all out:

Wyatt tipping it over.

Jason playing the sorting game. Leading by example...

Harry the Dirty Dog

Today we did a fun craft that involved Harry the Dirty Dog. Harry hates baths. In order to skirt getting yet another boring old bath, he buries his scrub brush and runs all over town getting dirty. But when he gets home, he is so dirty that no one knows who he is. Only a bath will do.

Okay - so, cute story.

I had Dub color a clean dog and a dirty dog from a cut out I found.
Then I cut and taped up the clean and dirty dog back to back in order to make a hand puppet.

Coloring his dirty dog.

The puppet and the book.

Putting on the puppet. It took several tries to get the point of the puppet.

What? This dog hates baths? That puzzles me. Bath time is awesome.

"Reading" it again...while sitting in a basket...still puzzled about why this dog doesn't like to take a bath. Hopefully he doesn't get any nefarious ideas...

So - it was a pretty good activity. If you're interested in hearing Betty White read an abbreviated version of Harry the Dirty Dog - complete with pictures - link up here! Very cute!