Today was techinically our last day of Spring Break since Grant doesn't have school Mondays. Thank goodness because I have a yucky cold so it was great to have no where to be! But, that means I have two kids with idle hands, and you know what that means!! Since this is our one and only non-busy day this week, I thought it was the perfect day for Easter activities! After a morning of catching up on the blog and playing playdoh, we started off with a painting project. This one is under wraps though, until they are received by some loved ones in the mail!
After lunch and rest time, we did centers. I took naptime to prepare lots of center activities. Alot of them I had prepared from last year, but I also got some new things for this year. Most of them were fine motor related, as well as focusing on counting, color recognition, patterning, and number recognition.
The top tray are sticky foam eggs. I stuck the first four on and they had to finish the patterns.
The bottom tray are
count and clip cards. It was so cute how Grant took Wyatt's finger and helped him count with one-to-one correspondence! Love those precious moments!
The top tray was grabbing the eggs by the strings with clothes pins and laying them in the space provided. Clothespins are great tools for fine motor work!
The middle tray was color matching tiny plastic eggs, using their grab-nabbers. Another fine motor skill activity!
The bottom activity was probably their favorite- digging through Easter grass to find all the letters from the foam puzzle. The letters were a light red, yellow, and green- the exact green as the grass so it was kind of tricky to find them all!! They LOVED this!
The top tray were filling Easter baskets counting by twos. They had to grab two things at a time and count by twos to fill their baskets to the number on the basket. This was tricky for Wyatt, as he knows to count by 2s to twenty, but physically doing it was a little harder. Good thing Grant was a good leader!
The bottom tray was a
number order puzzle. They both worked great together on this one. I think I should do an 11-20 for Grant though!
The top tray was a visual discrimination and fine motor activity. I gave them all the egg pieces and they had to make the color combinations on the cards. Good teamwork needed here for sure!
The bottom tray was a nesting egg activity. There were 4 sizes of eggs in 4 colors. They had to nest the eggs according to size. Took Wyatt a few minutes to figure out the nesting idea, but after I walked him through the first egg, he got the hang of it the second egg and did it by himself.
I LOVE being able to enjoy these activities with my kiddos. The teacher in me feels really likes they enjoy working on these activities together....well, the mom in me does too!!