Shredded Paper...what was I thinking?

I had a HUGE garbage bag full of shredded paper that I needed to put in the recycling bin. I thought "hey, why not play with it first? It would be great fun!" Yes, it was fun, but I learned my lesson...this is NOT an outdoor activity! Especially on a slightly windy day. Oh well, the kids had fun, that's what matters right? I poured it out in my big water/sand table and gathered different scoops and let the kids loose.

I told Lil Lady to smell it and see what it smelt like. She said it was stinky-lol!

As you can see, my driveway quickly became COVERED in tiny shreds of paper. Ugh.

Lil Lady had fun making pie and cake out of paper...here she is offering me a slice.

 

Lil Man loved taking her pie and cake and stressing her out, as usual. He thinks it's his hourly job to torture her because she makes it so easy!

The magnifying glass was lots of fun to check out the paper with. 

Getting a closer look with the magnifying glass is very important!

How big of a pile can you hold at once? 

It is lots of fun to sort and move paper shreds to fun new containers. She was making me dinner here I believe...

 

 

Overall the kids loved it, I didn't. If I do it again it will be indoor, on a tarp or something that I can easily clean up and take care any leftover runaway papers with a vacuum. It took me forever to clean up my driveway after this one! 

Storm dancing

A few weeks ago we had a fun summer storm and I wanted to watch it roll through. I sat in the garage watching it come through and the kids sat by me for a while. Then they started getting brave and ran into the driveway then right back in for cover. Lil Lady up to this point DID NOT like storms. They freaked her out due to the loud thunder and lightning. She kept begging to go in so I had to think of some fun games for her.

 

I told her that the thunder was big loud drums and that she should play along and make some beautiful music with the storm. 

 

Of course she had to pick some leaves too...

Every time the lightning hit she freaked out a bit so I got creative and told her that the sky was taking her picture and she needed to pose. I amazingly got a shot of her posing and lightning in the background! Love it!

After the storm she actually talked about how much fun it was and how she loved it. Maybe we're making some progress! I sure hope so, cuz I sure love a good storm!

Tumbling

One of the best things we have done for our sensory daughter is to put her in tumbling. It works WONDERS!!! This kid who hated moving and jumping and being off balance now thinks it's fun and practices all the time! It's amazing!

My friend teaches a tumbling class in her basement and it is great. It is very interactive and she gets a lot of one on one time. Lil Lady has been tumbling for a year and a half now (one year she did it with her preschool class but the tumbling teachers wasn't that great unfortunately!) she's making a lot more progress with the smaller, in home class.

She's learning back bends, is a master somersaulter, cartwheels, balance, fun games, dancing...it's just great.

If I had a few thousand dollars to spare I would totally invest in a at home gym! It is so much fun!

 

 

If you have a sensory kid than I highly suggest getting them starting a tumbling class! It gives them so much confidence in their own abilities and makes things that use to be scary fun and exciting!

Sensory Tub-Noodles!

The other day I was cleaning out part of my pantry and realized I had several boxes of crappy easy to make meals that had long expired. Seeing as I hadn't made them for years I opened them all up, recycled the boxes, threw out the sauces and kept the noodles for play time! Frugal right? :)
I then went to my selection of random scoops and such and pulled out a few I thought may be fun with noodles. Lil Man was making a HUGE mess when he sat/stood on a chair to play so I had him get on the table to play easier. Yup, I'm that mom. Then they each had at it scooping, pouring, shaking, dumping the noodles and rice. It didn't hold their attention as much as I'd have liked but oh well, not every sensory tub is a complete winner. Maybe I'll dye the noodles at some point for a more colorful experience.