It has been Legomania in our house as of lately. My daughter is obsessed with building and has completed most of her instructional booklets.
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It can be hard to find the pieces that you need while digging through a bucket of Legos.
This gross motor skill spinner game was inspired by an idea from our clever little girl. One day after watching me do a workout video, our daughter picked up a die and rolled it and told me that she was going to do arm rolls. She rolled a 5 and did 5 arm rolls. She told me to roll too. I did and rolled a 4 and she told me to do 4 jumping jacks. This sparked a fun idea for a game that kept us both moving and laughing. This simple gross motor skills game is easy to make and fun for the whole family. Use our free printable templates or design your own.
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I think most of us have heard the story ‘If You Give A Mouse A Cookie’. If you have not, it is a tale of a mouse and a series of events that occurs as a result of him getting a cookie. It is a fun book to read & my daughter just loves it.
We often joke with our daughter & say “If you give a Mai A Cookie”. This joke came up this week. “How about you give Mai 1, 2, 3 , 4 cookies, mama?” Nice try! She did not get 4 cookies, but she did give me an idea for a fun craft & counting activity.
What you will need:
Paper Plates
Construction Paper
Paint
Glue
Markers
Directions:
Sketch & cut a mouth hole out of a paper plate.
Paint your paper plate in brown & let dry.
Cut ears & a nose out of construction paper & glue onto the plate.
Draw in the eyes, mouth & whiskers with marker.
Glue around the sides & top of the back of the plate & glue to another paper plate. Leave the bottom unglued so that there is an opening at the bottom.
Cut 10 circles out of light brown construction paper small enough to fit into the slot on the mouse’s mouth.
Draw chocolate chips on them.
Cut 10 squares of paper & number them from 1 – 10. Mai did such a great job writing out her number cards.
Now you are ready to play your game.
Mix up your number cards & have your child draw one. Have them feed the mouse that number of cookies. Another option is to make the cookies with a certain number of chocolate chips & feed them the cookie with the correct number of chips. Let your child decide which they prefer.
Feed your hungry mouse. My daughter wanted to feed both mice. She counted out the cookies for both mice & fed them both full.
When you have used up all your cookies. Just shake them out of the opening that you left at bottom.
I had a hard time pulling my daughter away from this. She was having a lot of fun with it. She gave both mice their cookies over & over again. And of course when you a give a mouse a cookie, don’t forget, he is going to want a glass of milk to go with it.
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Like ‘If You Give A Mouse A Cookie’?, try the whole series of books.
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We have a lot of buttons in our house, a lot of buttons. They are great for fun & colorful crafts. My daughter loves to craft with them & she loves to play with them too. She likes to separate them into color piles & use them in games of make believe. One of her favorite things to do is to make pretend soup. This gave me an idea. We could turn our game of pretend into a fun counting activity.
We made a recipe which incorporated counting, measuring, separating colors & following directions.
Here is a printable version of our Button Soup Recipe.
We set up a large empty bowl & another filled with water. I told her to measure & add 4 cups of water to her empty bowl. She carefully measured out her scoops & added them to her bowl.
We read off the numbers & colors of each ingredient. She dug through her pile of buttons & counted and pulled out each color.
She mixed up her soup enthusiastically & in the end added the whole bag of buttons after finishing the recipe.
This was a fun activity. You can change the recipe to add different ingredients & more measurements for a lesson in measurements as well.
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