Then she occupied herself for a long time wrapping pink tape around and around the hanging tape.
In it, "Little d" gathers up items that begin with the letter d and put them in her sound box. I asked Elli if she wanted to make a d box. She went and got one of her pink baby dolls, (like the girl in the story did) and put it in a box. :-)
She worked diligently until she was satisfied!
We did another activity with Mali and made a dot collage.
She did not hesitate to dump all the dots on the page and seemed quite happy with it!
Then, I gave her the pom poms and a bottle on a tray. I was intending for her to just play with them, but she looked at me like I was forgetting something. She looked at my desk (where I keep tot school supplies) and I asked her if she wanted the tongs. She did. :-)
She was happy with herself and seems to be getting along better with the tongs.
Dandelion Painting
She did not want to use the yellow! I told her if she made a few yellow ones, I would get the purple paint out (I had already poured the yellow paint out). She made purple ones right on top of the yellow ones!
I can't remember where I saw this idea, but I picked up the fun fly swatter at the Dollar Tree. This was a lot of fun!
I exchanged the children's needle for a yarn needle and she sewed being careful of the needle tip.
Months ago, I made a version of this game by laminating strips of colored paper and attaching them with a ring. Elli is not interested at all in trying this tray! I asked her to give it a try, and sweet as she is, she went to my desk and pulled out a sheet of stickers and started decorating them! I thought she was creative in how she played with them. She told me she didn't know how to put the paper clips on, so I showed her how and she put 1 on.
Paper Dolls
She still enjoys playing with these!
See what others are doing for Tot School here.