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1a) Kitchen Stamping Craft: Use different kitchen items to stamp on a piece of white paper. I think a whisk and spatula sound the most fun! (picture to come) 1b) Spicy Letter K with Kitchen Spices:  Draw a letter K with elmer's glue on a piece of paper Let your child shake old kitchen spices onto his/her paper, making sure the K is covered Shake the extra spices off into the trash, revealing a letter K Praise and hang on the fridge. The one pictured below was done by my 19 mo. old 2) Make Kitchen Slime: Click the link to view the best slime recipe - from little bins for little hands. My three and 19 mo. old loved playing, stretching, cutting and blowing bubbles with the slime. 3) Kitchen Pretend Play Ideas: Although you don't need to go out and buy a play kitchen, I would highly recommend one as a birthday or Christmas present. My two has loved his KidKraft Play Kitchen we got him last summer. I found ours on KSL and the kitchen came with a bunch

I am so excited to share some really fun ideas to do in the Bath Tub! I'm looking forward to trying all of the following bath activities with my boys: 1) Glow Bath & Painting : This was one of the best activities we've ever done! I found this idea on Fun at home with Kids . Here's what you need: Black Light B Vitamin (makes the tub water glow) Washable Fluorescent Paint Shaving Cream (I bought ours from the Dollar Store) Bowls Paintbrushes 1. Mix the contents of two B Vitamin capsules in a glass with 1 Cup of warm water. Stir it around until the vitamin dissolves. The water will look orangish-yellow. When you are ready, fill up the tub as normal and add the vitamin water. Mix it around until all the tub water is yellow. 2. In small bowls, Mix 1 Cup of shaving cream with 1 Tablespoon (or more depending on how bright you'd like the paint) of Fluorescent Paint. We used four bowls - each containing a cup of shaving cream and one color of paint. Mix until

Alphabet Train : To review the alphabet as a whole, we put together a 10-foot Alphabet Train Puzzle . I put four or five puzzle pieces out at a time (for instance: A-E) and Easton helped me put them in the correct order. Easton loved looking at the animals on the train. After we finished putting the puzzle together, he walked over the entire train. Alphabet : When we started doing a Letter of the Week, we started with the letters in Easton's name. He knows E, A, S, T, O, N, A, B, C and now D. To review these letters, I bought  Letters and Numbers Bath Toys . I hid the letters in our living to room to begin. When he found a letter, I had him identify it. For the remainder of the week, I left the letters in the tub and Easton used them during his nightly bath. We spelled Easton's name on the wall and reviewed the other letters. He had a lot of fun! Letter T Songs : Next, we learned four Letter T Songs , which we printed from the measured mom blog. There are six songs avail

Choose from a variety of turtle activities: Turtle Shape Craft : I found this idea on the Letter T Crafts list on the measured mom blog. I taught Easton what a dome is (shell) and Easton identified the remaining shapes as we glued them on. Paper Plate Turtles : We had extra time today, so we made two paper plate turtles. Turtle #1 : Easton used Do-a-Dot Markers to stamp the dot colors on the first turtle shell. He loved stamping the colors together to make a new color - yellow and red make orange! I cut out the turtle head, arms, legs and tail from green construction paper which we glued onto the back of our paper plate. We topped it off with two goggly eyes.  Turtle #2 : Easton used different shades of green tissue paper for the second turtle shell. I put globs of glue on the plate and Easton chose which color of green to place on the shell. Again, I cut out the turtle head, arms, legs and tail from green construction paper which we glued onto the back of our paper plate. We

This lesson is based on the current nursery manual, Behold Your Little Ones. Click the link to view the original lesson, " I Will be Reverent " from LDS.org. For other Family Home Evening lessons, search our  Family Home Evening Index . Prayer : Song : "I Will Try to be Reverent" Children's Songbook page 28.  Click here to sing along . We did the actions from the manual as we sang the song: I love my Heavenly Father (put hands over heart) And I will try to be (point to self) Reverent when I'm in his house (put fingertips together to form a housetop) Then he'll be near to me (hug self) Picture : As suggested in the manual, we discussed how reverent the family is sitting in the picture below. "Tell the children that this family is at church and that they are being reverent. Invite the children to say "reverent". Explain that being reverent means quietly thinking about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Point out things

The majority of the activities below were apart of my two year old's "Letter of the Week" series. I've since added a few other ideas to make this into more of a themes page. We are just about to begin  Alphabet Activities for Toddlers & Preschoolers . Click the link to follow along with us! Letter A Booklist Letter A :  Alphabet Puzzle, Letter A Book, Handprint Art (Apple), Letter A Songs A is for Ants :  Ants Craft, Ant Color Match Puzzles, Ant Hunt, Ant Restaurant A is for Airplanes : Craft Stick Airplane, Airplane Cloud Jumping, Airplanes in Clouds Sensory Bin A is for Apples :  Hand & Q-Tip Apple Tree, Apple Sizes File Folder, Apple Shape Activity, Apple Orchard A is for Alligators :  A is for Alligator Craft, Hatch Alligator Eggs Letter B :  Bear & Band Aid Letter Match, Letter B Book, Handprint Art (Bee), Letter B Music Time B is for Bears :  Bear Finger Painting, Bear Counter Activities B is for Butterflies & Bugs :  Butt