WFMW - "T" Crafts

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We had a terrific time with "T" activities this week! And that's even without getting to tee painting and Twister and tornados and triangles like I wanted to do. So here are the activities that worked for this 21-month-old...

Treasure Hunt. Mommy gave me four things to look for, like the tub and a tree. Sometimes she had to point me in the right direction, but I always found it! The last thing I found was Papa's shoe, and inside it was a wooden train! I got to paint the train...

Train. Speaking of trains, Mommy helped me put together this little one. We put all my animals in the cars (chairs), and the sheep and I rode in the caboose while we sang "chug chug chug chug choo choo choo choo." It looks a little empty cuz almost all my toy animals are in Africa.

Tulle. Mommy had a roll of purple tulle on hand, so I draped it around myself and made a tutu for my Kelly doll. It's fun cuz you can see through it!

Tags. We made ten tags out of index cards. Mommy found some rubber stamps at a thrift store for $0.99, and she colored them with markers while I stamped them onto blank index cards. Then she cut two corners to make the cards look like tags, and we cut a hole in them and put tulle through the hole. She still wants to add some witty sayings to the tags, and then we'll have tags to use on gifts. By the way, we've already started using them as bookmarks.

Tea Party. Mommy never did find the perfect little teacups and teapot while shopping this week, but we had a tart 'n' tea party anyways! My tea was cooled down with fruit juice and tasted pretty good - enough for one sip, anyways... The fruit tarts were yummy, except I dumped all the fruit off of them. Who needs fruit?

Trash Bebe. This activity was entirely my own invention! I found a trash bin and showed Mommy how cool I looked with it on. Fortunately it was empty.

Turtle. We made a turtle shell out of a paper bag with markers and tried to get Kitkat (aka Flame) to model it. He wasn't a very good model, though - he kept trying to hide in his shell. Guess that means he was a good turtle!

Tiger. Mommy asked me to make a tiger mask out of a paper plate. She brought out my toy tiger to give me an idea of what to draw. But rather than draw it, I wanted to trace it, so that's what I did!
Then we turned the plate around and did the tiger mask. See that really great circle I drew around the plate? When it was done, I held it up and showed Mommy how tigers grrrrrr.
Tracing. Speaking of tracing, I LOVE to trace my hands and feet and head and whole body! Here is a hand tracing we did - I had Mommy do it in three different colors cuz it was so much fun. (If you're wondering, we are studying about being helpers at my church class.)
Tennis. I watched lots of tennis on television while we were at Eagle Crest. Here I am, table tennis bat in hand.
And here I am demonstrating my game. Though I have more of a golf style, to be honest.
Textured T. We've read a lot about sandpaper letters and even sand glued to make letters, but we didn't have any sand this week. So we made textured Ts from glitter glue. We also made some glitter glue trees and all the letters in my name, too! After it dried, we taped everything on the wall at my eye level so I could trace the letters with my fingers.
Tub. Tub time is so much fun! Here I am in the jetted tub at Eagle Crest.
Telephone. I LOVE things with buttons like telephones! I try to make calls all the time, and now that I can climb, there's nowhere that's out of reach! Though this week all I got were recordings and busy signals. Nobody wants to talk to me! Toes. What would "T" week be without some toe art? Mommy didn't let me have her nail polish, so I had to use markers instead - once again a project of my OWN initiative...
Toothpick Tree. I love poking toothpicks and craft sticks into styrofoam things, so we decided to make a tree this week. We couldn't find any cone-shaped styrofoam, so we just used a styrofoam cup. And we used toothpicks with little frills at the end, mostly green. It was so much fun I made two trees...

So there you have it - the activities that worked for me this week! By the way, we're gonna be zipping to "Z" for next week in honor of Operation Love Zimbabwe, but we'll be back to finish the rest of our letters - don't you worry!

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