Random Learning Activity Crafts for Mady

Here are a few things I've made her over the last few weeks to learn new skills and to just have fun.

Bath tub paints made with shaving cream and food coloring. I made some more tonight with baby shampoo and corn starch. She hasn't used them yet, we will see which works better. Also she will have orange in her selection. 

She went for the red the most. She's always liked red since she was tiny. She might end up being a lefty.

I didn't have much and I bought the corn meal special for this. An indoor sandbox. She didn't use any of the toys and she ate a bunch of the oatmeal. Hey, it's one way to get it in her.

She threw all the toys out, rubbed cornmeal all over her legs, and dumped it on the floor and sat in the box.

Parmesan cheese container with pipe cleaners. (Sharp ends are folded in.) She LOVES this, plays with it all the time.

Box with holes to fit puff balls in. She hasn't been overly interested in this one. 

I made her a chalk board from a piece of cardboard. I wanted to use canvas but couldn't find the ones I have in the size I wanted. She was very excited and of course, like her crayons the chalk soon ended up on every other surface, but at least it just wipes off. 

Solution to unwritable calendar tiles.

As promised I said I thought I had a solution to the cookie sheet calendar conundrum of not being able to write on the tiles and I do. Took me a while to post even though the tiles themselves have been done for several days as it is so hard to find certain things in this town.

Tada! Chalkboard paint, balsa wood squares already precut to the right size and magnets. 

Per instructions two coats of paint and then cure with a coat of chalk wiped off with water. 

The thing it took me so long to find was the chalk. Walmart is always out of stock and I finally got Roseart from Target. I'm not a Roseart fan, I'm a diehard Crayola girl, but had I not settled, this would never have been done. 

Isn't it lovely!?