Hippity Hopping

I love that Eva is at the age to start enjoying playing hopscotch!  We drew a simple 1-10 one on the driveway the other day (with the words "go" and "stop" on each end since she is starting to read them).  Eva loved hopping from number to number and even practicing counting backward.

I also drew a bunch of circles and she pretended that they were lily pads and she was a frog.  So much fun!

The options for hopscotch are endless!  You could put letters in boxes (or circles) to jump to in order to practice letter recognition, alphabetical order or even spelling words.  Shapes or colors would be fun to jump to also.  Or you could just ask your little one what they would like to jump to- that's how we came upon the lily pad idea.  Have fun hopping!

Gone Fishin'

We've kicked off the week by making our own fishing game.  To begin, I drew some fish on a piece of white paper and Eva painted them with watercolors.

While they dried, Eva then used finger paint to create the sea for the fish to swim in.

She used her fingers to draw squiggly waves and then we sprinkled some white glitter on for some added sparkle.  It ended up taking all night for the sea to dry but we were able to get in some early morning fishing today.

The fishing pole was made by wrapping twine around a large tongue depressor and hot gluing a magnet to the end of the twine.  I also added numbers to the fish to help reinforce numeral recognition.  Go fish!