Celebrating New Life!

With Easter approaching I though we would focus on new life.  We started earlier this week using some animal cards I printed from 1+1+1=1.  We did some matching the baby animal to the mommy.

These animals come with a complete pack of animal printables. We just used the cards for now.

Today we worked on a butterfly shapes and colors puzzle.  I love this puzzle because we do sorting, colors and shapes.

Since we were already talking about butterflies we did some paper "stick" on contact paper.  I really love using contact paper with Adeline we can do so many different activities.  Today we made butterflies and a cross for "new life".  They look great hanging in the window,

Jelly Bean Fine Motor

Jelly Beans are the perfect size to work on fine motor skills.  Adeline has never had a jelly bean so I knew she could work on this without being distracted with wanting to eat them.

I found these neat trays at the Dollar Tree with the ice cube trays.  I put some jelly beans in the tray and had her work them out practicing the pincher grasp.  We were also able to talk about taking the beans "out" and putting them "in the bowl".

Next, we took the beans that are now in the bowl and sorted them by color in the tray.  I added one of each color to the tray to give Adeline a start.

The last thing we did was work on scooping our beans.

It was so funny all of a sudden Adeline realized that these must be good, and she stuck one in her mouth.   She loved it!