Crafts

I've started a couple new things with Douglas. We've started doing crafts. He loves them and so do I. A blog I found has ton of preschool type crafts and sometimes books that correspond to the craft. Last week we checked out a book on garbage trucks and then made a garbage truck. Douglas sponged painted on the cardboard I cut out. He enjoyed it. We talked about the squares, circles and triangle that made up the truck. He also made a cute flower with water colors and today we did the letter E. He colored the E while I cut out eggs from misc. paper. He also used an egg and bunny stamp on it.

This is something we will definitely continue. I've made a schedule of crafts to do this month with him and things to teach.

The other thing we started today is muffin tin meals. I saw it once and didn't thing of it much until I found this blog. Every Monday is "Muffin tin Monday". She puts out a theme and gears the meal toward that theme. It is put in a muffin tin. I thought it was such a cute, clever break from the ordinary. So we will start doing Muffin tin Tuesdays b/c I want to see what people do on Monday. The theme this week was Easter/spring. Here is Douglas' meal.

Starting at the top left: drink, peeps bird, "bird nest"/spaghetti, pistachio pudding with sprinkles, bunny face bread, lady bug apple

I perhaps had more fun putting together this meal than Douglas did eating it, nevertheless, he did enjoy it. I think he'll get more into it as we keep doing it.