Photo Project 365 : [86-92]

What did the boys do this week?

Match up the numbers [day of the year] on the snapshots to the week below.

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I'm joining the 2011 Ultimate Blog Party

Have you joined?

I have.

What's hands on : as we grow all about anyway?

This little home on the web is a blog for me. I just happen to like to share it with you, a lot. I started this blog as a way to make myself be a more hands on mom to my boys, Henry and George (though George is a little too little to be involved in our activities). My very first post at the end of 2010 tells a little bit about my reason for getting started.

What will you be reading about?

My 3 year old son, Henry. He's a very energetic boy, so we do lots of activities that keep him busy (and burn off some of that preschooler energy!)

Every week, you can expect to read about a couple of activities and a craft that I do with Henry. Once a week I try to include some type of rambling post - whether it be an overheard conversation Henry had, or just some Toddler Talk by me. On Fridays, I do a weekly bookmarking of five of my favorite posts/ideas from the week called High Five!. And lastly, on Sunday (this is more for me, then for you), I post my week in pictures. I decided to take part in the Photo Project 365 of taking a picture a day for the entire year - this is where I recap it.

New this month (April 2011) : I'm joining in a Can You Come Outside to Play Challenge to get outside every day for at least 30 minutes. I'll be posting lots of pictures of our adventures outside along with the activities we find to do out there! Maybe some crafting too, who knows.

Please browse around!

Some of my favorite posts include:

Activity Course with Balloons

Meet Blue Dog - Henry's very best friend

Food Tracks & Layered Play Doh Art

Bubble Pop Road & More


Shamrock Window Decor

Tweet    - Henry is 3 years -   

High Five! [week 9]

High Five! 

to This Week's 5 Hands On Finds!

These are 5 Activities and Crafts that I've found  

but haven't had time to try them out yet, but want to make sure I do them.

[my very high-tech way of bookmarking them]

Where'd these finds come from?

The following blogs that are full of hands on finds!

[Be sure to give them a High Five! and check out their blogs and leave a comment.]

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Shaving Cream Eggs for Easter Tree

A messy messy activity

ending with a beautiful craft for Easter

Start by adding shaving cream to a pan.

[Henry had troubles pushing it hard enough to make it come out.]

Add food coloring.

Swirl the colors around.

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Blowing Balloons!

Fan + Balloon + a Preschooler = repeated fun!

All I got to show is this short 12 second video 

of Henry dumping his balloon from his bucket.

He dumps it in front of the fan in our upstairs hallway.

The balloon blows down the hallway.

Henry runs after it.

And repeat.

[Sometimes it blows down the stairs which provides even more entertainment!]

Tweet    - Henry is 3 years (just a couple of weeks!!) -   

Food Tracks & Layered Playdough

Making tracks with trucks and tractors in Play Doh is nothing new in this house.

Instead of vehicles, today we tried food!

[play food]

Craters made from grapes!

Corn on the Cob made nice rows.

And a fork?

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Photo Project 365 : [79-85]

What did the boys do this week?

Match up the numbers [day of the year] on the snapshots to the week below.

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