Number Chalk Walk

After our Chalking mad day I thought this neighbourhood chalk walk where you look for numbers and copy them. We got the idea from inspirational laboratories website.

http://inspirationlaboratories.com/number-walk/

I decided to take a chalkboard too but the 2 year old used that more and Dylan 4 years old enjoyed writing on the floor . 

I loved this idea although we had to limit the amount outside the neighbours houses.

This helped developed confidence and encouraged him to see that 2 and 5 look similar as he mixes them. Plus 7 he seemed to write the wrong way around. Getting him to check on the source helped to reinforce this. 

Maybe we will try it with letters next time or tracing shadows. 

Chalking Mad

The other day we visited our local Sima warehouse and came across a pack of huge chalk . So today I thought lets blog hop and find ideas. 

I've just remembered brick dominoes 

So we started off just free styling on the drive and Dylan drew a maze , Zac scribbled over the shapes we drew.

Dylan's maze (zac called a ladder)

Then I drew a hopscotch grid and we played that. ( not neat on the blocks but was ok)

Then I got them to squirt trace the numbers .

Then the paint brushes came out.

And next the scrubbing brush.

We tried a maze but it was too bumpy. 

So we made a brick road.

So we drew a few white lines to look like a road.

Then came brick vehicles

A bus.

I made a rainbow brick but Dylan was still hooked on the road .

Zac started to match up colours then he rubbed it and coloured over it .

The easel wasn't a huge hit.

The chalk bodies on the shed was though.

I drew the outline and they added features.

Could get one together but the shed now looks like this ,,,

Finally the trampoline . I wrote nimbers and drew shapes and they had to Boyce on the one I said.

Then the drawing and name writing .

Then we had lunch . Not sure if we will be doing anymore today!

Pebble Kitchen Play

Zac loves stones and likes to pick any up on our travels and in the garden. So I let him loose with my vase pebbles (with supervision) . I gave him a container first then added to it one by one . He had the doc, scales, whisk, muffin tin, saucepans , tongs and ladles .  

Then we played around he even included his bear in making cake for dinner. 

2D to 3D animal jigsaws

This morning I got the 2 and 3 piece  puzzles out and we matched them , made animal noises and then I remembered a game I used to play with my eldest son. This game involved flash cards but is easily adapted to th puzzles . We would get 3D versions of the 2D images and match them.

Sometimes he mixes up some animals like a cow and a sheep but generally he took to this activity really well. He started role playing with the animals himself. I tried to record him going through them saying their name and making the sound but he wasn't in the performing Mood.

Maybe next time.

Zac 21 months