S Week- Sports

We played several sports during S week, but the highlight for Trip was an envelope of sports pictures that he got in the mail from Noni. My mom had been cutting pictures out of the sports section of the newspaper for a while. Once she had a nice collection, she sent them to Trip. He had loved going through these pictures and is very serious when looking at each one. He identifies each sport and gets excited about them all.

S Week- Spaceship Lunch

Trip loves the "Space Adventures" Goldfish because they have special shapes. The stars, moon, and spaceships came in very handy for this lunch and he was excited to see them on his plate. The spaceship is just bread, hot dog, carrot, and olive. I used mini chocolate chips to make the S.

S Week- Spring Stained Glass

 This was a fun simple spring project. I cut up some tissue paper

and taped some contact paper to the table, sticky side up.

 Then, it was Trip's turn to stick tissue paper pieces to the contact paper.

It took a little work to get him to lay them flat instead of crumpling them up, but he got the idea.

He stuck on quite a few colorful pieces, then I filled in the rest and sandwiched our work with another layer of contact paper.

Next, it was time to trace some flowers.

Once I cut out the flowers, Trip had a great time taping them to the sliding glass door. He was very proud of his work and we are now enjoying some bright spring colors.

S Week- Sandcastles and Sandpaper

Trip had lots of fun helping me make part of this sandcastle lunch. He crushed the cookies for the sand using a bat,

and then a bottle.

He also helped mix the pudding.

Then, he ate all of the lunch except for the cookies and pudding! Not that I'm complaining, but it was funny!

Later, we tried to make a sandcastle out of the leftover cloud dough from our Excavating X's activity. It sort of worked, but we didn't have quite enough dough to make a good castle.

We also tried coloring on sandpaper with crayons. Trip wasn't too interested in it, however so it didn't last long.

He quickly turned over the sandpaper, colored the guys on the back, and moved on to something else.

S Week- Six Snails for Lunch

These six snails were a fun and easy lunch, of which Trip ate every bite (except for the celery leaf grass). The shells are tortilla roll-ups with cream cheese dip inside. Hot dogs, carrots, and some celery finished them off nicely. I realized afterwards that the eyes really should have been on the tentacles instead of on the heads, but oh well, that will be something to figure out next time.

S Week

With all our our craziness lately, S week got stretched out over a couple of weeks, with activities here and there whenever we had a chance to fit them in.

Since so many fun words start with S, Trip has enjoyed several special lunches, including a sandcastle,

six snails,

and a spaceship among the stars.

We did a simple spring stained glass craft.

Sports were of course a big part of S week. We played many different ones, both inside and outside. Trip also got a envelope from Noni filled with sports pictures that she had cut out of the newspaper. That was a big hit!

Thanks to Bapa and Granny, Trip now has a superhero cape and mask. He had lots of fun playing superhero, having me fly him around the house, and coming "to the rescue."

Trip also enjoyed playing a game he invented the last time Noni was here, which is coloring numbers in Mommy's sudoku book. He especially likes this game when one of us pretends to be upset that he colored the numbers.