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Letter V Craft : I printed a Letter V Printout  from Mom Junction and colored in all the dots with a white crayon. After Easton identified the letter we got to work! We used these  Homemade, Edible Finger Paints  from Repeat Crafter Me. (picture to come!) Veterinarian Pretend Play : This was another favorite activity of the week! Easton loves pretend play, so I knew this would be a lot of fun. After reading our vet books, he wanted to act out "Sally goes to the Vet". His favorite part was putting bandaids on his stuffed animals. We used this darling  animal checklist and badge  (I helped Easton fill them out) from play dough to plato. We used our doctor coat and doctor set that we got for Christmas.  The doctor glasses were killing me! Here's an inexpensive doctor set from Amazon that comes with the coat and hospital kit.

Vegetable Craft : I found this idea on the   Letter V Crafts List   from the measured mom blog. I printed vegetables from a google "vegetable collage", cut them out and Easton helped glue them onto our Letter V. Some of the vegetables he hadn't heard of yet (whoops!), so he learned some new words today. Vegetable Printing : This idea is also from the   Letter V Crafts List   on the measured mom blog. I bought a few vegetables from the store with vegetable printing in mind. We used an orange pepper, broccoli, carrot, cauliflower and celery. Vegetable Pretend Play : I wrote numbers 1-10 on office stickers and stuck them on our set of  Ikea Vegetables . We pretended to be at the grocery store and Easton was the cashier. I found some vegetables to buy and had him identify the numbers and push them on our play cash register . This activity evolved into buying books and all sorts of things. It was a great number review!

1) N is for Nest  from The Measured Mom: I cut out all the pieces from construction paper and Easton glued them all on. Review a few colors and shapes - oval, circle, rectangle, triangle. 2) Build a Nest Pretend Play  from Craftulate: Easton loves to pretend play, so I knew he would love this activity! Watch a youtube video of a mother bird building a nest.  Set up four stations, each with items to build bird nests. We used craft sticks, sticks, train tracks and scrunched paper. Add plastic eggs from the dollar store and  Safari Birds TOOB  from amazon.  3) Feed the Birds in a Nest  from Powerful Mothering: I love this idea working with fine motor skills. Did you notice the worms are in the shape of an N? Make baby birds by hot gluing googly eyes and an orange felt beak onto large pom poms. Place the baby birds into plastic eggs and then into a "nest" (an empty egg carton). After the baby birds hatch, have your child pretend to be...

Orange Stamping : I found this idea on the Letter O Crafts list on the measured mom blog. I bought some oranges, we dipped them in orange paint and we stamped them on card stock. Afterward, I like to write the Letter O on all of our crafts we do this week, as an extra reminder of the letter we're learning. I also hang all of our crafts on the fridge as a daily reminder to learn Letter O. Lid Stamping : I also found this idea on the  Letter O Crafts  list on the measured mom blog. I bought a few gatorades this week and saved the lids for this activity. We kept out our orange paint from the previous activity, and I added some other colors for Easton to dip lids into. After he stamped the lid, I would always ask him, "what letter is that!?" and he would always respond with Letter O! Obstacle Course : I set up an obstacle course with things that we already have in our house. We used our Little Tikes Slide (this is used daily at our house), hula hoops - use these ...

Choose which ideas you're toddler will enjoy the most learning about TRUCKS today: Traffic Light Craft : I found this idea on the Letter T Crafts list on the measured mom blog. I drew three circles (stop light) on a piece of white paper and ripped up pieces of green, yellow and red construction paper. Easton helped glue on the pieces of construction paper to the correct circles. We talked about the meaning of each color in the stop light. Monster Truck Foil Painting : After watching a Youtube Video  about Monster Trucks, we used Monster Trucks to paint on Aluminum Foil. Easton absolutely LOVED this activity. I initially thought this would be a painting activity, but we spent about 45 minutes playing before I even brought the paint out (see top left picture). We pretended each monster truck was a member of our family and we watched each other jump over the ramp. Our trucks ate lunch, took a nap and raced some more. I found a similar idea and tutorial on All for the B...

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...