Tot Boxes

I have been so busy keeping up with Truman!  I know I have mentioned a time or two (or maybe more!) how busy my 2 year old is, but whew!.  Truman definitely keeps me on my feet from son up to son down!  Within 5 minutes of him being in our school{barn} it would be a disaster area.  Now he is talking a lot more & really very excited about “school” it was time to change out the baby/toddler toys for more of the preschool stuff.  So the past few weeks I have been making an effort to get the flow of our school{barn} more Truman friendly.  I needed activities quick & on hand, but I also wanted to make sure I was getting a variety of activities that would benefit him as well as keep him busy.  In addition I wanted to try to tie in a few of our themes (color, letter, shape) as much as possible so here are Truman’s Tot Boxes for Letter A & the Color Red.

On the top shelf are a rice box to practice pouring, scooping, & just fun, a  moon sand box with the Melissa & Doug wooden play dough set, & a sand tray to encourage beginning writing skills.  *Be not mistake, the 3 boxes get mixed together in his kitchen area FREQUENTLY.  ~no big deal – either way he is using his imagination & having a good time.  The other boxes have cutting practice, shape/color sorting, an alphabet sensory box (I put letter “A” beads, foam letter, & magnet + an apple, ax & alligator, transferring practice, stamping (with an alligator stamp), & painting.  I tried to use item that were the color we were focusing on (red rice, sand, paper, pom-poms, paint).  As it is now, we are sticking to the same themes for about 2 weeks so that will be the time frame I plan to use for re-doing these.