Tot School -- Scooting Along with Fall Fun

One of Adelines favorite activities is playing with the scooter board.  Today was very exciting because she did many new things on her board.  Usually she will sit on the board and I will move her around holding on to her ankles and saying "ready, set, go"  she loves that.

Today I sat her on her board and she started moving herself using her feet.  She went back and forth across the room.

Next, I put her on her tummy.  She has always been scared on her tummy on the board, but she took off.  She started to pull herself across the room.  She thought it was great.

Riding on the scooter is another great activity that works with vestibular stimulation.  The vestibular system has a strong influence on muscle tone, which is at the core of most development and/or learning disorders


Later we got into our contact paper and made some fall leaves 

Contact paper is one of my favorites to use with Adeline right now because I am just not into the glue yet.  Here she can just stick it on and we are all set.

Exploring Nature -- Fine Motor Skill Task 3

      We went outside today to pick some of our favorite things in the backyard.  Ian's bucket looked so pretty with all the different colors!

     I love clear contact paper!  There are so many differnet little projects you can do with it.  We took all of our picks and made a nature stained glass window type thing. 

 So pretty

 Finding tresures

 Getting ready to start our project

 First cut the bottom part of your "window" and stick everything on

 Ian had his little order of things

 Adeline used grass.  We talked about "green" and "grass" and "sticky".

 Putting on my grass

 Once everything is on, cut a top sheet and stick it on.  A rolling pin works great to help press everything together.

Our finished product.  We then hung them up in the window so the light can show through.