"Snow" Activity

You know I am not a fan of winter if you've read any of my recent posts. I am NOT an inside girl. I like taking the boys to the park to run off their energy, on hikes around our property, to fed the animals, take long walks, ride the 4-wheeler, or just work outside!

So this winter is REALLY killing me. Slowly. 

Therefore, I am forced to find good entertainment for these wild boys. Here is one I found from Pinterest.

It was fun for them, but if you are Type A and can't let go of the mess this activity may not be for you. 

I'll let the pictures say how it went:

All you need is:

A cookie sheet

Shaving cream

Bulldozers, trucks, anything that scoops

Spoon to shovel the snow

Karson also enjoyed writing letters and shapes into his shaving cream.

A teachers dream come true :)

Karson is almost 4 and he LOVED this activity.

Kipton is 2.5 and well he liked it.....but would have rather done something else :)

It really surprised me that he didn't like his hands getting messy. Especially because he is

the. messiest. eater. ever!

Hopefully you and your kids are staying busy inside and as a mom you're keeping your sanity!

Have a great week :)

Our Monday includes: running errands and going to the library :)

Scavenger Hunt

Another activity that I found from:
 
This one is a scavenger hunt. I changed a few things to better suit Karson's interests.

I started out by listing some items outside that I knew Karson's could find in our neighborhood. I "tried" drawing a picture of each item because of course he can't read yet. He actually could tell what my drawings were and was really excited when he figured each item out.

We had rocks, pine cones, a leaf, a stick, and a nut.

After I made sure he knew what each of the items were on our paper we set outside. He quickly knew the rocks were in our driveway.

(Sorry for the lack of shirt and cotton shorts. It was a 98 degree day)

Next up were the pine cones. He knew they were near his friend Lexi's house so off he went running down the road right to the pine cones.

Then we found the leaf, the stick, and a nut.

He had all of his items in the bucket. It was so funny to watch Karson run to the different places around the neighborhood. He knew right where he could find each item.

After finding all the items we went inside to put them on our graph in the different categories.

The end result. I did have to help him a bit for the graphing part but not bad for a 2 year old.

He had a great time! He loves the outdoors so this was ideal for Karson.

Hope you can use this activity too!

A picture of my sweet Kip just to keep things fair :)