Masher Medics

Dylan was playing with Woody from Toystory and pretended he had a ripped arm like in the movie. I said do we need to fix him? He replied yes. I said we can get the doctor stuff out and you can fix all the toys like Doc Mcstuffin. He then said "I know we can use the mashers as I can fix them together". 

So I set up the stuff

Plasters

Elastic bands

Lollipop sticks

Dr set

Tape

Bandage

Then he wanted to fix buzz and woody too as Zac his brother was playing with them .

They played for a good 15 mins.

This was about 9:30am Sunday morning and they were still in pjs .

I was surprised Zac sat still for so long as he is 20months. 

Dylan enjoyed using the elastic bands to attach the splint (lollipop stick). He also managed to open and used the plasters which he loved. 

We drew around the toys with chalk and pretended they were X-rays.

As always not planned and loads of fun.

Bubble Bath Body Building

Today Dylan started playing with his avenger mahers again and wanted to take then in the bath . Whilst he was playing I thought of a game where he would assemble them but without the ability to see them. Do we made loads of bubbles and pulled the avengers apart and he searched for the body bits abmnd built them.

Then he made a song up:-

 Six Super avengers standing on the bath,

One fell off and made us laugh (my contribution)

Until there were none.

He loved knocking them off.

Dylan (4.4) 

Pumpkin plaster removal

After the plaster sticking activity and the dr check-up the removal of these plasters and bandages can be an activity practising fine motor skills. I can also prepare him for removal of plasters when he allows us to out them on him. 

Dylan's skills in this type of activity have improved really quickly. He even works out the best method of extraction.

Dylan 2.11

Plaster pumpkin

During the pumpkin check up doctor Dylan noticed a mark that he said was a cut and to put a plaster on. I had to open them and he put them on. He has got much better at handling plasters. He is a nightmare to get to have a plaster on so hoping this will help. I have a bunch of old plasters that I kept for craft purposes.  We also had a few of the new coloured plasters I bought to motivate him to wear one when he needs one obviously not as a fashion statement. 

After he had finished he did more doctor type checks from the previous activity.

He loved this and even more he loved the removal.

Dylan 2.11

Squirty cream pumpkin

This started as pretend medicine and ended up pasting the squirty cream all over.

He wasn't very keen to get the cream on his hands as he is funny like that.

But soon forgot about it and enjoyed it.

Dylan 2.11

Pumpkin check-up

Dylan loves his doctor set and was very excited to use it on the pumpkin.

We have a doctors set of the usual apparatus. So he went through the typical motions of a check-up.

Obviously he had to use his imagination  for things like the ear check.

This lasted quite long and developed into other activities such as -

Pumpkin cream pasting 

Pumpkin plaster placing and removal.

Pumpkin bandage placing and removal.

Dylan 2.11