Hey Friends,
So, let’s get right to it!
The weekends tend to get away from us incredibly quickly over here. All of a sudden it's Monday morning, and I didn’t do half the things on my to-do list… Sound familiar?
One of my weekend goals is to plan out some of the activities that I want to work on with Lilah, and prep as many of the activities as I can to make a smoother week ahead. We have days of the week bins, pre-filled with easy worksheets and books to grab, but I like the week to have an overall learning theme to really enhance exposure and vocabulary.
But, weekends are also a big family get together time for us, so time seems to slip away so quickly!
That’s why I wanted to share how we are starting to plan our toddler activities and then share the plan with you, hoping that this will make your weeks simpler, calmer and also purposeful!
Each Wednesday night, we will share out the learning theme for the week ahead, along with the activities, science ideas, book lists and snacks that would correlate with the theme. This way, you aren’t spending forever searching pinterest, sourcing activities, or last minute ordering from your shipt shopper (like I have, way too many times!).
Here’s a link to the print out to guide you!
We will provide an overall shopping/materials list by section- however, most of the items you will most likely have in your home!
So make sure you turn on post notifications on @wonderandwhimsy_co , especially for Wednesdays since we will reveal the theme, stories with our ideas, and a printable plan!
Our Week Ahead!
Snack Materials:
Lucky Charms
Rice Krispies
Marshmallows
Fruit Loops
Chex Mix
Pretzels
White Chocolate Chips
Green M&M’s
Funfetti cake mix
Rainbow colored fruits
Snacks:
Lucky Charms Rice Crispy Treats-
We are using Katherine’s Kitchen Blog’s recipe!
Leprechaun Bait-
We are using Chelsea’s Messy Apron’s recipe!
Fruit Rainbow Cup-
Grab your little one’s favorite rainbow colored fruits and roygbiv your heart out while you layer them in a clear plastic cup.
Rainbow Waffles-
We use the gluten free funfetti mix and our dash waffle maker to make perfect toddler sized waffles. Each waffle is dyed a different color of the rainbow. Take a scoop of your batter, place it in 5 different bowels, and add food dye to color!
Science
Materials:
5 pots of gold/plastic cauldrons
Food Dye
Baking Soda
Vinegar
Play dough
Full Fat Milk
Dish soap
Q-tips
St. Patrick’s Cookie Cutter (shamrock/rainbow)
White Carnations
Plastic Cups with Water for flowers
Rainbow Pots of Gold
Place your pots of gold into a large tray
Fill the base of each one with baking soda
Place 2-3 drops of food dye into each pot (representing each color of the rainbow)
Pour in vinegar to see the rainbow reaction
Rainbow Volcano
Build your base inside of a baking tray- you can simply use a cup or build out of playdough.
Fill the base with baking soda
Add rainbow colored food dye in a circle.
Fill the remainder of the volcano with the vinegar to see the reaction.
Rainbow Carnations
Cut 6 carnations to be able to fit/stand in clear plastic cups
Fill 6 plastic cups with water.
Add the colors of the rainbow food dye to each cup.
Add in one flower per cup.
This will take some time to observe!
Rainbow Magic Milk
Add full fat milk to the bottom of a flat bowel
Place your shamrock cookie cutter inside
Add green food dye drops around the cookie cutter
Soak a q-tip with dish soap
Place the q-tip into the food dye drops to see the reaction happen
Craft Activities
Materials:
Construction Paper
Scissors
Glue
Shaving Cream
Paint Brushes
Cardstock Paper
Sensory bin materials- green rice/beans. We use our leprechaun trap prints from our etsy shop to build a scene
Fruit Loops
String
Paper Cloud Rainbow-
Cut out a cloud shape
Cut out strips of papers in rainbow colors
Glue the strips in the correct order to the back of the cloud
Match the corresponding fruit loop to the correct color of the rainbow with glue
Pot of Gold/Rainbow
Cut out a pot of gold base
Cut out a gold pile
Glue both pieces to construction paper
Cut out strips of construction paper in rainbow colors
Glue them so that they are coming out of the pot of gold
Sensory Bin
Add in your favorite fillers
Add in shamrocks, black pots, pieces of gold, or feel free to grab our leprechaun trap kit from etsy
Fill the pots with beans/pieces of gold with scoopers and kid tweezers
Leprechaun Trap
You can choose your base! Often people use shoeboxes, or other boxes, hats, or jars
Paint/decorate your trap with materials you have around the house- paints, construction paper, glitter, our leprechaun trap kit from etsy shop,
Add in paper towel rolls as a slide for the leprechaun to jump through
Fruit Loops Name Necklace
Cut out a shamrock and write your little one’s name on it.
Hole Punch a hole into the shamrock and string it on the yarn necklace
Thread the fruit loops onto the necklace in rainbow order
Books: Affiliate Links Included Here!
If you don’t already have a handful of holiday themed books, we highly recommend get epic! It is an incredible virtual library that is extremely user friendly for little ones!
Titles we love for this week:
*How to Catch a Leprechaun
*The Littlest Leprechaun
*The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun
*Ten Little Leprechauns
*Happy Leprechaun
*Peppa Pig Loves St. Patrick’s Day (Family Fave)
*Happy St. Patrick’s Day (We read this EVERY night to Lilah lol)
If you have any questions at all, we are here to answer them! We love connecting with you guys here on our blog, and of course over on instagram!
Have a wonderful and hopefully calm week!
Kim and Karlie
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