Baby of the Corn

 

I was looking for some balls to add to my ball pit, but was having no luck.  Then I saw a 50lb bag of corn.  Terrific!

 

Micha and I ran home and dumped it in our "sensory pool"  I added some measuring cups for dumping

 

Because corn is a choking hazard, I sat in the pool with him.  When he would start to bring his hands to his mouth I said "no mouth" and moved his hands away.  He loved it!

 

He moved his legs the whole time we were in the corn listening to the crunching sound it made on the plastic.

 I would cover his feet in corn & then he would move them till he could see his toes again

 This lasted 30 min.  He would have stayed in longer, but it was time for me to feed him.

 when we were done I cleaned all the corn off of him and checked his diaper for any that had snuck in.  We will be doing this again soon

Dino Digging - Week 6 - Day 2

This activity is very similar to Dino Fun that we did a while back.  This time I had them pretend they were paleontologist digging up dinosaurs, instead of them hatching.

It was a very similar set up.  I provided dinosaur toys for pretend play after the "excavation", rocks  and digging tools

ROAR!!!  All set up and ready to play

There was a living dinosaur in there, the one that's half showing was supposed to have been trapped in some goo.

This time the dough was still soft, so it was easy to "break them out"

After we dugg them out, or helped them hatch, your choice, we made mountains with the soft dough.

 I love it when you have one idea for "creative play" and their minds take it somewhere else.  Its really cool.

 Here is our baby, he is always sitting and observing with us.  I say things like

 "you like dinosaurs? 

He is Blue, a blue dinosaur. 

Can you touch him? 

How does he feel?  Smooth?"

This way he is learning sensory with us

Baby Fun

I started thinking the other day that I had not done any art with the baby yet & he is almost 4 months old.  So I filled a gallon size plastic bag with blue and yellow paint and sealed it well.

Then we got baby and let him explore

This was a good activity for brother and I to talk to him

We told him what he was seeing and feeling

"look blue and yellow make green" "how does it feel?"

  "is it smushy?" "what do you thinkg?"

It was probaly a 15 min activity were we talked with him, explained what he was feeling & seeing, he enjoyed it, but I think in a month or so he may enjoy it more.  So we stored it in the Kichen art center for later :)

Baby is 14 wks old in this activity