Before we left for Easter break, we had so much fun celebrating the coming of Spring with new games, painting Easter eggs with water colors, making Spring cards with “chick” thumb prints, going on a Easter egg hunt, and feeding Peter Cottontail his favorite food–carrots!

Easter egg Hunt!

We sure had a Hoppy Easter! 🙂

The toddlers had such a fun week at Creative Tots celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! We started off the week painting leprechaun beards, using a fork instead of a paintbrush, for our pot of gold and leprechaun craft. Our other craft was practicing ripping tissue paper, which is one of our objectives this month (and great for hand strengthening), and then they used the ripped paper to make a shamrock.

We also had some St. Patty’s Day-themed activities for our friends to enjoy, such as St. Patrick’s Day discovery bins, and a shamrock toss!

Our St. Patty’s day snack was made by our friends by smearing on some white icing and then they got “magic” green sprinkles 😉 It was a hit!

We went on a gold hunt! That sneaky leprechaun hid gold coins all over our classroom. Our toddlers had to search around our classroom and find 5 gold coins each. They had such a fun time hunting for gold!

The month of March is focused on the color purple. We made purple play-dough, painted with purple paint using oval cookie cutters, colored with purple crayons, stamped on purple paper, sorted different purple objects that we found around our classroom, and had a purple snack with purple grape juice! Purple party! We try to incorporate our monthly learning objectives (which you can find in the monthly newsletters) into each of our activities. You will also spy our shape of the month, which is oval, in our different centers and projects.

Our letter of the week was the letter “R” and we had fun making Rockets, using Red stickers to build the letter “r”, and we had Raisins for snack on an “R” placemat!

For the second half of February, keeping our monthly objectives in mind, we have been learning about outer space! We’ve read the book How to Catch a Star and have been learning about stars, planets, and space.

In one of our activities we used our imaginations in our learning to pretend that our different colored balls were “planets” from outer space going into a black hole–but look out! If you don’t sort the ball into the color that it matches, the black holes will “spit them out”!

Our discovery bins are space-themed, with rockets, aliens, stars, astronauts, and other sensory objects that the toddlers really enjoy to free play with.

We made our own galaxy! Our students learned to use the sides of paperless crayons to pinch between their fingers and rub along the paper, for a new way to color! They also loved adding star stickers to make it look like the night sky.

And what could be better than outer spaced themed snacks? 🙂

Thank you all for coming to our classroom to celebrate Valentine’s Day with us! We hope you enjoyed being there, as much as we loved having you all!

We had a great month of January exploring with our winter color of “white”, in several different ways! One day, we made “snow” play-dough. Another day, our friends frosted a cookie, used chocolate covered raisins for eyes and noses, marshmallows for ears, and voilà, a polar bear cookie treat! Finally, a good sensory activity that our friends love is playing with shaving cream! The messier, the better!

Math is a part of your toddler’s schooling, even at their young age! Matching and sorting are two foundational math skills that your toddlers are learning to utilize just by observing the world around them. We have been practicing these math skills in school all year, and we wanted to show you different ways that we teach these skills in our classroom.

One tool we use with our toddlers is a color mat! We use different colored objects for them to sort onto the corresponding color on the mat. Recently, we used colored letters to sort onto the color mat–sneaking in letter sounds whenever we could 🙂

Going along with our January theme of “winter”, for matching skills practice, we took turns matching patterns on mittens in one of our small groups!

Now, maybe they’ll be able to help you find the match to your mismatched gloves/mittens at home! 😉

We are excited to announce our Summer Playdate Series!  Everyone loves a playdate, but the kids want to have them more than parents like to host them. Let us play host this summer . . . that means no mess, no noise, no cleanup and no negotiations about who gets to come over. We have decided that summertime at Creative Tots should be more about what the kids want. The kids want to play.  The kids want to see their friends. The kids have spoken and we have listened. They think that anything to do with “camp” might just be a little too much like school. Let your kids explore they way they are built to explore . . . through playing in the summertime with their friends. So, grab a friend and join us!

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There is nothing better on a cold day than some warm and comforting soup! We read the book, “Chicken Soup with Rice” by Maurice Sendak, and then our friends helped make some chicken soup…with rice! They each took a turn adding in a different ingredient.

Our friends got to try chicken soup with rice, along with rectangle crackers at snack time!

Our art project was also focused on chicken soup with rice, so our friends used different colored rice and glue to make a bowl of pretty colored chicken soup with rice! They had fun using their fine motor skills to scoop the rice, pour it on the paper, and then shake it until it stuck to the glue.