WFMW - "X" Crafts

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We have been having an excellent "X" week! Here are the crafts and activities that worked for this brand new 23-month-old this week...

Xylophone. We already posted about making a xylophone from glass bottles here.

Xerxes. I played Queen Esmé and King Pappa Xerxes! First Mommy and I made a crown from yellow construction paper and stickers. Then I put the crown on Pappa's head and took lots of photos. But I'm not allowed to post any or all my people will be destroyed.

Then I modeled the crown myself! First I put it on my leg...

Then around my neck...
And then upside down. Which look do you like best?
X Cookies. To make King Pappa Xerxes favorable to all my requests, I made him X cookies from gingerbread cookie dough. To be honest, I ate lots of the dough myself. And those baked cookies go down real well with whipped cream on top!
Xerox. We photocopied my hands! Then I kept matching my real hands to the copy...
X-ray. We made an X out of bones on a black shoe-box lid (cuz we didn't have black construction paper). And I colored a picture of an X-ray.

X Chromosome. We made play doh Xs and Ys and talked about how girls are XX and boys are XY.
Xhosa. Pappa spoke some Xhosa to me and I practiced clicking.

Extra Xs. We made Xs and Os out of play doh, and Mommy drew a tic tac toe board. But we had extra Xs, so we couldn't play very well! Here I am counting the Xs.
X Marks the Spot. We made a treasure map! First Mommy drew it using the house layout - TV, fridge, cat, table, bathtub, bed, etc. Then I scribbled all over it to make it better.

Finally, we rubbed a wet tea bag (rooibos, of course) over the paper and then scrunched it all up.

Then Mommy hid a treasure where the X was, and we put together this kit for the treasure hunt. All necessary stuff, you must agree!

We followed the map, picking up a snack from the fridge on the way. And at last we found the treasure in the closet - right where the X was on the map! It was a little doll. (I had actually discovered it earlier, but don't tell Mommy that...)



We've got one more week to go - "Y" is it! See you next week!

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Bottles

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This week's Unplugged Project was "bottle," and since we are on "X" week, we decided to make a xylophone out of bottles.

So Mommy and I got out a bunch of bottles. She didn't have very many empty ones, so I grabbed some out of the fridge to make a few more notes. But she wouldn't let me use the ketchup one since it was plastic. Here I am arranging my xylophone. Great music, er, noise lesson.

I've got spoons to ding on the glasses. Mommy showed me how to pour water into and out of the bottles to make the sound lower or higher. But she wouldn't open up the soy sauce or the banana sauce or the olive oil to let me pour those out. Great pouring lesson.
Then I decided I should read the ingredients of the soy sauce bottle to make sure they were appropriate for my xylophone. Great reading lesson.
Then I decided to see what bottles fit into the other bottles. Great spatial lesson.

Finally I had to clean up all the water I spilled. This would have been so much more fun if I could've poured ketchup instead of water! Great life skills lesson.

For more bottle ideas, check out Unplug Your Kids!
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