Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tot School Week 3 - Superheroes

Tot School
Ollie is 20 months old

Our theme this week was Superheroes and I think it went ok. I thought of the theme before thinking of activities and crafts, and it was really hard to think of things to do, but it worked out ok in the end.

Superhero Themed Activities

Our book for the week was Charlie's Superhero Underpants by Paul Bright and Lee Wildish.

I found some colouring pages at Coloring2000 and printed them off for him. I printed Batman and Spiderman sheets to go wtih his superhero theme.


I made some Superhero sound effect graphics in Photoshop, in different sizes and colours, as a size order activity... he was very very very unimpressed...

...and thought it would be more fun to put them on his head.

We made a Superhero mask (I printed this off Family Fun) and I let him loose with the glitter, glue, pompoms and feathers. After it was dry I encouraged him to put it on but the feather on it kept tickling him. I put it on myself instead and he found this hysterical.

Non-Themed Activites

I went to The Early Learning Centre and picked up a couple of new educational toys for Ollie. He seemed quite taken with the cotton reels. He concentrated so hard on getting the string through the hole, but needs a bit more practice. He also had a lot of fun stacking them! I'm sure we will think of lots more activities to do with the reels, like stacking by colour etc.

We also bought a button board. He LOVES this. It comes with different pictures wit holes in that you put on the board, and you have to put the right coloured buttons in. He hasn't quite got the hang of getting the correct colours, but loves popping them in anyway!


Letter and Colour of the Week

We are going to make an alphabet book. I have taken lots of ideas and jumbled them together to make my own. Each week will be a letter and a colour! This week was the letter 'A' and the colour green. I gave him only the green colouring pencils, felt tips and crayons to colour in this A. I then turned it into an alligator.


I am looking forward to next week's theme of Day and Night. See you then!

43 comments:

  1. Great idea for a theme! Love the button board...very cute toy. I love your "a" as well....we started the alphabet this week and did "a" but with apples & ants instead:)

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  2. what a wonderful week! I love the button board toy that looks like a lot of fun!

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  3. Love the theme and the button board!

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  4. I love the button board and cotton reels. What great educational toys! Great theme too! Lots of fun!

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  5. This looks like a lot of fun. What a great idea!

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  6. We have a toy similar to your button board and my daughter loves it. I can not wait to see what you all do next week.

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  7. Thats a great theme! Cant wait to do that with our little one. Stopping by from SITS and I am a new follower from Friday Follow!

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  8. Stopping by from SITS have a great day!

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  9. Great theme. I find my crafting and playtime with my little munchkin tend to be as unfocused as I am....and I bet we could both use a little more time knuckling down on a central theme for the morning. Thanks for the idea!!

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  10. Love the button board... why did we not have one of those? I must have missed that one on my many trips to the teacher supply store.

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  11. I love these ideas! It's such a cute theme, and you did a great job of coming up with activities!

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  12. You're such a fun Mom.

    Happy SITS day.

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  13. What a cute little guy you have. Love the Alligator A too! Could be a new superhero emblem eh?!

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  14. What a cutie petutie pie! I can tell you don't like taking pictures of him at all ;)

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  15. Cool theme and I'm digging your Alligator! You have great ideas for little ones Emma.

    Happy SITS day, enjoy the spotlight :-)

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  16. Such neat new toys. My wishlist is always growing and growing thanks to blogging. LOL

    His alligator is adorable.

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  17. Those are such great ideas! We have a 2.5 year old and I work outside the home, but am always searching for fun projects that we can do together in the evenings or weekends. Off to check Amazon for button boards! :)

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  18. Love this! my blog focusses a lot on activities to do with your kids at home, so it's fun to find someone posting about similar types of things :) I'm stopping by from SITS- congrats on your day! :)

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  19. I love the name Ollie! Your son is absolutely adorable! Congrats on your SITS day!!

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  20. You are impressive.

    Happy SITS day.

    LisaDay

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  21. Hello. Well, I'm 32 and I still think putting anything on your head is funny! :-) I'm following for more good (not-so-clean) toddler fun! Happy SITS day.

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  22. Found you through SITS. Don't you love documenting the little everyday things you and your son do? Have a good day!

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  23. I'm so impressed with all that you do with him at 20 months! Good job!:)

    My son won't do anything with ordering pictures by size, either...and he's 26 months. Hopefully, in time, he'll "get" it!

    I'm so jealous of the button board. I've looked for them before, but it appears to be a European products, and it's not available in the US :(

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  24. Happy SITS day! you and Ollie sure are busy!!! We do Friday Follow too...haven't come across you yet...there's soooooo many to visit!!

    Congrats again!

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  25. Oh he's adorable. I liked how he put the graphics on his head. Instead of doing the activity. Very cute, :)

    Have a happy SITS day.

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  26. So many great ideas. It's inspiring me to post about toddler yoga on my blog. There are so many exercises for kids this age too.

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  27. You are such an awesome mom. So creative!!!

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  28. Oh, my - if you have templates for the alphabet book, I'd love to do this w/ my kids! What a great idea!
    please let me know (email mommakiss02 @ gmail . com)

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  29. Love your little boy! So cute! I have a 15 month old! Congrats on your big day!

    Alicia from Coffee Mugs and Sippy Cups
    www.coffeeandsippy.blogspot.com

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  30. Over from SITS.
    He is adorable!

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  31. What a great idea - I love the thought of doing a weekly theme. Just might need to do this during the long summer months with my three little ones!

    Happy SITS Day!

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  32. My boys love the lacing toys. Looks like little Ollie is learning a lot!

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  33. Stopping by from SITS. Congrats on your feature. Off to look around.

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  34. So nice to meet you and Ollie! Have a great SITS day!

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  35. Oh my gosh. You are such a fantabulous mother : )

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  36. That is so adorable! I should do this with my two toddlers!

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  37. Love all the ideas...When my boys were younger, we did a color photo album where I dressed them in the color of the day and they got to go around collecting ANYTHING they found of that color. They piled it up and sat in the middle and I took their picture. They LOVED it!
    Hope you enjoyed your SITS day!

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  38. It looks like your son had such a fun time! Cute!

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  39. very cute activities! I love the games you bought him! :)

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