Talkin' to you Babe! Our DIY Telephone!

So I was thinking the other day, how cool would it be to come up with something fun so Gavin can talk to the baby!  I was eating fruit out of a can, and it hit me!  Let's make an old school telephone!!!  PERFECT!

So....we did....

I took two empty mandarin orange cans, (used the one with the pull tops so there are no sharp edges), and cleaned them in the dish washer.

Took some leftover wrapping paper from his birthday and glued it to the can

we punctured a hole from the outside and used hemp string 

Then I took our colorful dry pasta we made a few months ago and strung it on the string

He had so much fun talking to his brother or sister <3

I captured a video of him too!

Our DIY Button Counting Sticks

We've been so lazy lately since I've found out I was prego, so we haven't had too much fun!

It's been super cold outside, not much to do, so we finally got a little crafty today!

This was a lot of fun to do. 

I had Gavin pick out the buttons and I hot glued them on popsicle sticks.

then we glued some buttons to our jar.

I also placed some random buttons in the bottom so we can count with those as well.

Looks awesome!!

Week 13 - Theme - Cars & Trucks

Today we started week 13!  Our theme this week is Cars & Trucks!

Gavin will definitely be interested in this :)

We started out our day by coloring a car & truck print out.

Our Vocab Word is Gasoline, so I showed himwhere we put gas in the car and then we went to the gas station and I showed him how we fill up our cars with gas to make them go.

and he said the word "gas". YAY!!!

Then I made a steering wheel out of cardboard and colored a stop sign printout.  We pretended to drive around the house with our wheel and when we approached the stop sign, we would STOP!  I showed him how to STOP, then look both ways to make sure our path was clear.  

Then we made a traffic light on paper.  I colored it in for him and told him to put the tissue papers colors with the colors on the paper.  I am so proud of him that he placed the red on red, yellow on yellow and the green on green! Amazing!!

Then I explained the traffic light and what the colors meant. 

I then took him to this car racing museum in Welcome, NC.  He loved it but he was upset because he wanted to get in the racing car badly lol.

Here are a few photos from our field trip!

Gavin's Sensory Jar - Super Neat Project

This is probably the most fun Gavin has had with any of the crafts we've done!

I took an old peanut butter jar and ran it through the dish washer

I added water and oil

and we just put a bunch of buttons, balls, sequence, ribbon and dice in it.

Gavin had so much fun dropping the stuff in and watching it sink to the bottom

Then I hot glued the lid on to the jar.

Gavin was very upset with this step lol, he wanted to continue putting stuff in there but the water/oil were starting to overflow because of the overload of objects Gavin put in there.

Another Duck Craft

Today is our last day of Duck week!  

So we made another craft

I got some feathers from Walmart and Gavin pasted it on the drawing of the duck

Here's his masterpiece!

He had so much fun with the feathers

Hello # 12!

Today we introduced the #12!!

First we put (12) stickers on our printout

at snack time we counted out (12) snacks of grapes, kix and cheez-its!

we blew up (12) balloons!

and we took (12) popsicle sticks and glued them paper

after they dried, Gavin decorated them with marker