Last week we continued our color series with some fun blue-themed activities at Tex’s house. After circle time, we read Alice Shertle’s Little Blue Truck Leads the Way, and then it was time for the real fun to begin!
First, we had some fine-motor play with blue manipulatives. Mama Tex filled one side of a jumbo egg carton with different shades of blue pom poms and then provided a variety of tongs and tweezers for our tots to transfer them to the other side.
Another simple activity that got lots of love from our little pupils was a DIY ring-stacker. Mama Tex painted some cardboard toilet paper tubes blue, let them dry, and then cut them into rings that fit perfectly onto her counter-top paper towel holder. All the kiddos had fun threading the rings onto the metal holder. Genius!
Miss Peaches particularly enjoyed placing pom poms into a blue pill organizer.
After the kids got their fill of these activities, we moved out into the sunny playroom for our next (messy) phase of play. To set up this activity, Mama Tex first filled a large plastic tub with plain water.
Obviously, that was super fun in itself! But she didn’t stop there…the girls enjoyed swirling a few drops of blue food coloring into the water with their hands.
Next, Mama Tex brought out a container of blue toys that had been buried in coffee grounds. We encouraged the children to dig out the “dirty” toys and “wash” them clean in the blue water. She even provided organic dish soap and small towels to dry them with!
Will found a truck right away that needed some TLC.
The coffee grounds quickly turned into fragrant “mud.”
But the little ones didn’t mind at all! Check out this series of Peaches digging out a ball and putting it in the water…so much fun!
By this point, our blue water was long gone. But again, nobody seemed to care 😉
Just in case we weren’t messy enough, Mama Tex brought out another gooey activity.
She filled various plastic squeeze bottles with blue flour-based paint, gave the kids some clean paper plates, and let them squirt and smear to their hearts’ content. Another genius activity- my toddlers LOVE squirting things at the moment!
After we were through with messy play for the day, we all sat down and shared some blueberry donuts.
Now, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Is it me, or does Will’s new haircut make him look like a punk rocker?
What? Is there something on my face?
Just noticed that Peaches has a “blue” eye to match the theme! 😉
I love the flour-based paint idea!
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