It’s finally summer here in Wisconsin, and after the longest winter ever, it feel so good to get outside and enjoy the sunshine! So I guess it’s time to come to terms with the fact that our little baby Aubrey isn’t really a baby anymore now that she’s 2.  That means we are wrapping up baby bins this week, and she will be diving in to our tot school themes this fall!Here is a look at our second set of 6 seasonal themed baby bins:Here are the details for each of our activities:Aubrey loves all of the lift the flap books from Karen Katz, so this week’s summer story was Baby Loves Summer...…It’s finally summer here in Wisconsin, and after the longest winter ever, it feel so good to get outside and enjoy the sunshine! So I guess it’s time to come to terms with the fact that our little baby Aubrey isn’t really a baby anymore now that she’s 2.  That means we are wrapping up baby bins this week, and she will be diving in to our tot school themes this fall!Here is a look at our second set of 6 seasonal themed baby bins:Here are the details for each of our activities:Aubrey loves all of the lift the flap books from Karen Katz, so this week’s summer story was Baby Loves Summer...WW…

I remember as a kid we literally were not allowed inside the house except to eat, sleep, and use the bathroom in the summertime. Here in Wisconsin we only get a few months of truly hot summery weather so we really have to make the most of every minute outside while we can.  In order to keep my girls sufficiently entertained outside for hours on end while I relax in the sun sipping margaritas ice water, I planned a sensory summer full of fun. Each week we will have a new sensory bin full of materials that we will use every day. We will be coming up with tons of different ways to...…I remember as a kid we literally were not allowed inside the house except to eat, sleep, and use the bathroom in the summertime. Here in Wisconsin we only get a few months of truly hot summery weather so we really have to make the most of every minute outside while we can.  In order to keep my girls sufficiently entertained outside for hours on end while I relax in the sun sipping margaritas ice water, I planned a sensory summer full of fun. Each week we will have a new sensory bin full of materials that we will use every day. We will be coming up with tons of different ways to...WW…

Confession: I’m a pouch lid hoarder…Anyone else with me? I don’t know about you but we go through food pouches in this house like crazy, especially in the summer when we are always in the car needing quick and easy snacks on the go. This means we have tons of those little circle tops everywhere!! So this week our #sensorysummer bin is filled with pouch lids!If you want to gather all of your materials before you start, we found almost everything else we needed at Target or on Amazon. Here are all the materials we used:****Lots of Food Pouch LidsColored CupsColored BowlsLacing StringSidewalk...…Confession: I’m a pouch lid hoarder…Anyone else with me? I don’t know about you but we go through food pouches in this house like crazy, especially in the summer when we are always in the car needing quick and easy snacks on the go. This means we have tons of those little circle tops everywhere!! So this week our #sensorysummer bin is filled with pouch lids!If you want to gather all of your materials before you start, we found almost everything else we needed at Target or on Amazon. Here are all the materials we used:****Lots of Food Pouch LidsColored CupsColored BowlsLacing StringSidewalk...WW…

  I kind of can’t believe it but we just wrapped up our FINAL week of tot school with a fun ice cream theme! I’ve had so much fun coming up with and sharing 30+ weeks worth of ideas, activities and fun with you all since September. So where do we go from here? I don’t know about you but my summer calendar is already PACKED with classes, story times, pool dates, and dance recitals so we are going to take a break from our regularly scheduled tot school activities. But don’t you worry I’m not going anywhere 😉For the next 10 weeks, We will be using one sensory bin for the entire week...…  I kind of can’t believe it but we just wrapped up our FINAL week of tot school with a fun ice cream theme! I’ve had so much fun coming up with and sharing 30+ weeks worth of ideas, activities and fun with you all since September. So where do we go from here? I don’t know about you but my summer calendar is already PACKED with classes, story times, pool dates, and dance recitals so we are going to take a break from our regularly scheduled tot school activities. But don’t you worry I’m not going anywhere 😉For the next 10 weeks, We will be using one sensory bin for the entire week...WW…

Our five senses tot school unit was full of exploration and learning. We had so much fun learning about our sense of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch that big sister Madelynn even joined us for a lot of our activities.Here were our plans for 5 Senses Week:And here are the details of each activity:Here are the books that we used to begin each day:Hearing by Rebecca RissmanSmelling by Rebecca RissmanSeeing by Rebecca RissmanTouching by Rebecca RissmanTasting by Rebecca RissmanFor our first fine motor activity we worked on coloring to fill a shape. I printed a listen and color page then...…Our five senses tot school unit was full of exploration and learning. We had so much fun learning about our sense of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch that big sister Madelynn even joined us for a lot of our activities.Here were our plans for 5 Senses Week:And here are the details of each activity:Here are the books that we used to begin each day:Hearing by Rebecca RissmanSmelling by Rebecca RissmanSeeing by Rebecca RissmanTouching by Rebecca RissmanTasting by Rebecca RissmanFor our first fine motor activity we worked on coloring to fill a shape. I printed a listen and color page then...WW…