Attention!!!Toes are playing!

Today Karolina continued to play with her snowballs. In the morning before changing her pygama, Karolina decided to use her bare feet and play with her toes, taking a foil snowball and put it into a basket like we had done before with the pebbles.  It makes her laugh every time-)))

I remember how it's happened the first time - tickling feeling, new experience, exciting activity. I told her: "Try to be a monkey and do like they do". Showing to Karolina how to move the pebbles helped her to get the idea at once-)))and plus the pebbles makes such a nice sound ...

That was not only fun, but also a good thing for motor skills. Her first glass pebble was not taken up so succesfully like she was thinking but at the end she managed it very well.
So, play monkeys and don't forget to eat banana after that-)!
P.S. for developing motor skills you can also take a towel with your toes from one side and your child from the other side and try to pull it,  it is such a joy!!!

Foil SNOWBALLS activity

Winter crafts do not stop...It brings so much fun and joy to Karolina. Especially she likes when we need to decorate sth, like it was with Xmas decorations for the flat. She wanted to hang all lights only in her room. Everytime she took out anything from the box, what she found more beautiful, she said immediately: "Mummy, let's hang it there as well...", adding "I will do it myself..."

Yeah, this year is really different, Karolina's understanding and expectations of Holidays make it more interesting for us as parents. I love New Year and Xmas but with Karolina I feel it even more.

Her dad promised her to make a snowman as soon as the snow will come...So, Karolina is waiting and meanwhile, like today for example, we played with her fake snowballs....which were made from the alu foil.

We made a shape of balls, and the main idea of snowballs games was the following:
1) to make them, which is good for motoric skills
2) to count them
3) to compare them by size
4) to throw them into each other, pretend play with snowballs
5) to throw them into a bowl or basket
6) to take them with chinese sticks and put in the bowl (which was quite difficult when she did it from the floor, thats why  a TIPP: let the child do it from the table, on the same high level) - for motoric skills

Time is for bed already. It is quite warm in the flat, but our snowballs will wait for us till tomorrow, to play again. 
Take care and don't get cold-)))

DIY sand at home for your little one, mummy-time

The weather doesn't welcome us now at all. Quite chilly, quite fresh, quite wet. Karolina asks me every time to go to playground when we pass it by. And I have to find again everytime a new explanation for her why it is not possible. Just the answer "it is too cold" doesn't satisfy my toddler already. She doesn't stop her question WHY and it continues, it seems to me, ages...

So, to make these dull days brighter I allow her to put on sometimes her swimming suit with Hello, Kitty! and then she plays in swimming pool with her toys, using a basket for that.  And I made for her sand a time ago, when the sun stopped appearing often here ....to remind a little bit about those nice days.

I should say, It was fun and brought lot of Joy to Karolina. I didn't listen her for about an hour, so much made it her occupied.
All you need for your mummy-hour-time is 4 glasses of flour and 1 glass of baby oil and mix it....The consistence is nice and so is the smell.

It was once, I will tell you honestly, may be later I will do it again, but for now I must take rest from that hard work with vacuum cleaner, lol-)))

Anyway, I am happy that Karolina enjoyed it, it was quite useful for her motorics as well. And it was sth different from days full with crafts, which I will post later as now it is hot time to make postcards or presents for everyone-)))

Rainbow craft, motoric skills,activity with colours

Today on our way to the nursery Karolina and I saw a huge rainbow. So bright, and so close. At the beginning it was from one side of the car windows, then we turned and it was just opposite us. We were driving towards the rainbow. It impressed Karolina a lot and she remembered how one of her favourite cartoon characters Minnie Mouse was talking about rainbow. Karolina has a book about it as well and the thematic of her 2nd birthday was just about Minnie's rainbow colours (with balloons). So, my little gem was laughing the whole way and speaking sth on her own language as I understood it was kind of her description of it.

All what's happened insipired me today for one craft work with Karolina. We decided to make our rainbow, improving knowledge in colours and motoric skills while working with scissors and scotch band.

I prepared example in advance that she could see what we were going to do. And by that sample I asked her to repeat which colours are in rainbow and to find them from the majority we have.

For this craft we needed:
1) blue card board (for the sky)
2) cotton balls (for clouds)
3) pipe cleaners of different colours
4) scissors, glue, scotch band

First Karolina glued the surface of the cardboard to stick the cotton balls.

Then she chose pipe cleaners of each colour in a correct order, and started to stick them with a scotch band. Here it was the most exciting part for her to cut the band and then to stick it.

After she finished with pipe cleaners, she decided to put additional clouds around... as didn't want to finish the craft-)))

And here is the result of a hard work

Looks a little bit abstract but very cute, I guess. And what do you think???

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