Things that are keeping the girls busy lately:
- Art supplies, especially stickers
- Playsilks & pieces of fabric
- Small animals
- Chapter books; How-to-draw books
- Dress-up clothes
- Music (often combined with playsilks and/or dress-up clothes)
- Letter writing and delivering
- Puzzles
- Board games
- Each other
What are your kiddos really into right now?
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Our list is very similar to yours! As far as art supplies, we’re especially into paint & markers this winter. My kiddos also love making monster-size tents with boxes, blankets, and pre-made pop-up tents.
My little ones have lately been into painting rocks. They collect them everywhere we go then come home and paint them silver or gold or copper–any metallic color, sometimes multiple colors. These become their “treasure” and they will bargain for each other’s rocks.
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Paper airplanes are also a big part of our days, especially when older sisters are willing to take the time to make the elaborate airplanes from books, the ones that I don’t have the patience or dexterity to fold.
Swords, cap guns, and nerf guns are wielded throughout the day. There are tiny nerf dart circles all over the tv and window panes
The youngest two especially have enjoyed Moon Sand. We’ve also been doing quite a bit of painting.
My daughter has been working on a Mod Podge paper & wood plaque project. She Mod Podged a background paper to the pre-cut wood plaque first, then she cut the letters of her name out of different scrapbook papers. Using Mod Podge, she glued those to the plaque to create a door hanger for her room. She’s eight, but older and younger kids can use Mod Podge with supervision – water clean-up until the Mod Podge dries.
*pattern blocks
*marbles (love watching them make up new games!)
*snow! snow! snow!
*sketch book and pencils
*playdough
*books on cd
*Shel Silverstein poetry
love your blog, btw! Thanks for the great ideas. We’re going to try the watercolor initials next week, I think.
Lincoln Logs are a hit around here lately.
My 2 & 3 year olds are really into painting and coloring. I just introduced them to golf ball painting, and they had a blast rolling the ball back and forth in the box! They also have a wide assortment of large Legos, which they have been using to build towers and buildings. The fun part is knocking them down!
Right now Anna is big into stamps and “sticky tape” (bandaids used as stickers, stickers, or scotch tape).
Hmmm…today we played with pop beads (I think that’s what they’re called…) FOREVER! And right now we’re “writing” a book with scrapbook supplies. She wants to do a new page every day! SO FUN!
My two-year-old loves playing with dry beans in a big plastic bin. She also loves blocks and sand (or beans or salt or rice) and water and play dough, anything she can get her hands into. She also loves to dress up. We have tons of dress-up things. Dolls and all of their accessories, of course.