WFMW - "Z" Crafts

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We've been zealously zeroing in on "Z" this week! Here are the crafts and activities that worked for this just-turned 22-month-old this week.

Zoo. There was SO much to do with zoo! Here I am creating a zoo with animal crackers and uncooked spaghetti noodles.

I caged myself in like I was in the zoo here at home. I like it when Mommy feeds me popcorn through my cage bars!
And here I am caged up in the pants rack at Ross Dress for Less.
Here I am putting zoo animal stickers on a piece of paper. I am getting really good at unpeeling the backers off the stickers now! Or maybe my nails are just rather long.
Zipper. Mommy showed me how to do crayon rubbings over a zipper. I am finally figuring out how to hold the crayon to do a rubbing, but I didn't do it over the zipper - just over flat surfaces. I DO like zippers though - opening and closing them!
Zig Zag. Mommy drew some zig zag lines on strips of paper and held them for me to cut on the zig and the zag with my awesome scissors. I tried to do it by myself, but I still need help to get a good cut. (And the cutting always goes better when you wear hot pink Lil' Bratz flip flops on your feet, 'specially if you have them on the wrong feet.)
Ziploc Bag. I helped Mommy put together some squeezee bags with beads in them. First we picked out some letter beads - one set with the letters to my name and the letters to "Zimbabwe," the other set just with two beads of each color. We put each set into a separate zippy bag.

Then we squeezed baby oil gel into the bags to make them squishy squashy. After zipping them up, I got to play with them. The idea is to squeeze the beads into place so I can spell words, or so the colors are sorted out. I still need Mommy's help to do this, but it's fun to squeeze them just by myself.
Zebra. We watched zebra movies. I love "Racing Stripes." Here I am watching "Madagascar" with Papa.

And here I am wearing a zebra tail (scarf) that Mommy found at Dollar Tree. Except I kept taking it off and trying to put it on Mommy.

And we made a "Z" with zebra stripes. This took a little ingenuity. First we glued a white "Z" shape to a yellow piece of paper. Then I was supposed to draw black stripes on it, but I was having too much fun with the glue, so Mommy decided to cut out black stripes for me to glue on. But we didn't have any black paper, so she found a picture of a woman in black pants in a magazine and cut up the pants... Then there are google eyes (which I didn't leave on much longer than it took to take the picture) and pink heart stickers for ears.

Zimbabwe. As you know, we've been busy with Operation Love Zimbabwe this week! Here I am sorting through some Zimbabwe dollars. Can you guess how many billions of dollars there are here?

Zeros. Mommy drew 18 zeros (to represent all the zeros in Zimbabwe's inflation rate last year). We counted and I colored them.
Ziti. I threaded uncooked ziti pasta onto pipe cleaners to make bracelets. Mommy was a little surprised at how easy this was for me, since the only other threading/beading activity I did was back in "L" week, when I threaded toilet paper roll pieces onto wide ribbon. But I loved it! And I loved taking the pasta off the pipe cleaner almost as much as putting it on. So Mommy made an activity tray for me so I can do this over and over, like the color and sorting and counting activities we do every week.

So that's what we did! Now we're veering off to "V" this week for Valentine's day. And I adore hearts, so I can't wait!

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