2-26-09 Beads on a String, Sorting, Singing, 1st Lapbook - Cars

I made this toy for him for Valentine's Day. A simple can we got as a gift with coffee in it, some wooden beads, some cord and a bell. Tied the bell to the end of the cord and melted the end. Voila, a stringing activity that we also use for beginning patterning. He doesn't quite get the patterning thing yet and he likes beading 'a little'. This activity was used, but he quickly moved on.




He did ask for the water bottle and straws/pop sticks/toothpicks/etc. again. So, he played with that for quite awhile. He even climbed on the counter later to get it AGAIN. He also pulled out his song notebook to sing some of our songs in it (and look at the poems, pictures we've done to put in there). He likes to also pull down his 'artwork' notebook.

Also, he asked to do some more cutting...


We started making his first ever Lapbook today. We used Cars, The Movie Tot Book, b/c of course, Ryan's obsession is Cars. I will post the finished project when we are finished. I'm doing the name part a little differently than shown in the link. We are leaving ours separate, he likes to try and put it in order.