Fun with Sophie Rose

Sophie and I have had some fun filling our days.  I'm getting some ideas from Pinterest and also from my Productive Parenting emails.  Here's some of the ideas:

• I still had nuts left from Christmas so we broke them open, although I had to do most of them.  But Sophie did like using the pick thingy to get the nut out.  Of course we sorted the nuts and counted them first.

 

•  We used the bathroom scale to weigh objects in the house.  THe hard part was finding things that were heavy enough to move the scale pointer.

 We weighed the milk jug, stack if books, firewood, and bucket of blocks.

After marking the weight of everything, Sophie was still the heaviest (and the cutest).

 

•  We practiced our balance by walking with a small pillow pet on our heads.

Sophie then upped the ante by not only balancing the pillow but also a spoon on her nose.  The spoon trick is her favorite and she beats me at it everytime.

• We attended a surprise birthday party for Ms. Peggy the Chick-Fil-A storytime host.  Sophie was so excited to give her the birthday card and gifts she had picked out.

• Sophie has been practicing her gymnastics, taking every opportunity to stand on her head or do somersaults.

• We prepared for our first ice skating outing by "skating" on shoeboxes.

• I re-used the baking soda from the fridge by letting Sophie explore all that it can do.  She really enjoyed using colored vinegar to create fizzy art.

• We had one last activity with the Easter eggs before I packed them away. We sorted them by type (plain, animals, insects, etc.) then by color, counting along the way.