Made: More Quiet Book Pages

More pages added to the quiet book!

 

I'm thankful for a friend sharing her quiet book with me for more ideas! There were some I had not thought of and they were nice and easy to copy:)  Thanks Kristin!

 

Chalk Board Page:

I bought chalkboard fabric (which was much cheaper than I expected!) and cut it to fit the page as I wanted.  I actually made three of these pages so all the kids could draw at the same time.  I put a little hot glue down to secure the fabric then I did use my sewing machine to straight stitch on the edge. To finish it I cut felt and hot glued that down to make a nice looking border.  The pocket is just a piece of felt to hold the chalk and a loose piece of felt to use as an eraser.  It works really well!

 

 

House of Shapes:

The house and tree trunk are glued down.  The other pieces have Velcro and an outline on the page so the child can match the shapes and complete the picture.  The only thing I didn't trace was the cloud.  Raelynn has enjoyed putting the cloud in different places on the picture.

 

Zipper Page:

I bought the cheapest zippers they had at the store.  So they aren't pretty colors, but the others didn't fit on the page.  I used the sewing machine for this one, as I figured with tugging toddler fingers that would be the best way for it to hold up over time.

Painting Page:

 

I didn't know if this would really interest the kids.  It's supposed to be a pretend paint, but if they can't see a picture being made I didn't think it would be super fun.  So to add a little extra to it, I just cut two pieces of each color.  I hot glued one down to the pallet and the other I added Velcro to.  So it turned this page into a color matching activity as well as the pretend painting! 

To secure the paint brush, I cut two strips of white felt and hot glued down.

Cookie Counting Page:

I love this one!! There are different amounts of sprinkles on each cookie.  There are numbers on each circle on the cookie sheet.  The child counts the sprinkles and matches to the number on the cookie sheet.  This is also a page that a child who doesn't know how to count or know the numbers can still do by just matching the cookies into the circles.

BFIAR: The Snowy Day (and tot school: circles and white)

Books: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and Frozen (Little Golden Book) by Disney
 

 
 

 

Color Focus: White

Shape focus: Circle

Ages: 18 months, 23 months, 40 months


This week's story was The Snowy Day and it was so fun! SO many things to do with snow.  This was my first attempt at focusing on a shape and color.  It's a little more effort to do that, but just takes some pre-planning. 
Circles are definitely an easy shape to do because they are everywhere and they tied in perfect with snowmen, snowballs, and snow.  And if we are going to be reading about snow I figured we had to tie in something that is quite popular with our kids right now--Frozen!!  Amazon had the Little Golden Book for $2.99 a couple weeks ago so I couldn't resist to get it.  We read it every.single.day.

Do you want to build a snowman?  Our felt board for the week:

Circles for pizza night!

Fine Motor practice: stringing circle noodles onto spaghetti

 

 

Drawing with chalk.  Olaf was making his appearance everywhere this week!

More motor skills practice: scooping and grabbing "snow" in circle cupcake tin

 

 

Dot markers--more circles!

 

 

Declan needs practice with sorting so I pulled this out one day because it had circles

 

Circle stickers!

 

Circle poker chips. We found them while cleaning the garage.  Mommy knew that she could put them to use:)

 

 

Fun with marshmallows: painting, stacking, counting, stringing on a skewer

 

 

and the most fun was a snowball fight!!

 

I refrained from taking pictures and just enjoyed the moments with my kids.  It was so fun! They liked hiding behind the forts so they could go try to eat the marshmallows, haha.  Mommy and Daddy had fun with it!

 

In The Snowy Day, Peter makes tracks with his feet in the snow.  They had fun making tracks in white play dough. We got a variety of animals out and compared the footprints. 

 

We had a lot of Frozen printables this week.  We didn't get through them all!

 

 

 

The Snowy Day printables:

Doing a story retell with pictures

 

Number clips: her first time doing this with the clothespins and she did so well! Definitely will repeat this!

 

She circled all the "S" on the page and all while Mommy was upstairs--she was so pleased with herself!

 

Resources:
 Frozen Q-tip printables
Frozen Tot Pack
The Snowy Day printables
Borax Snowflakes