Preschool At Home: It's Hammer Time!

You can't touch this...

Okay, now that I've got that tune stuck in
your head, as well as mine,
I can continue my post.

Between bad weather and sick kids,
we spent a lot of time
stuck inside the house
for the past two months.
I realized I was going to have
to start organizing some more
novel activities to keep the girls occupied.

Their brains were beginning
to get mushy
from watching
a million episodes
of Arthur and Little Bear on the DVR.

I decided the Mini Saurus might be
big enough that we could try our Haba nailing game again.
It's been in the "choking hazards" bin in our garage
since our move last winter.

I don't know what this game is actually called...
It comes with little wooden shapes
(with pre-drilled nail holes),
a wooden hammer,
a piece of cork board,
and mini nails.

I let the Frog Princess use my small "real" hammer
so we could give the wooden one to Mini-Saurus.
Then I dug up a scrap of foam core from my art studio
so they could work on their own pictures
and keep the peace at the kitchen table.

End result:
Two Happy Kids
No TV
45 minutes of
learning, art, and entertainment.

One cup of hot coffee for mom.

My kind of a morning.

You can do this too:

I used to do this project with the frog princess when she was small.
We would get out her play tools set,

a block of styrafoam,
and some wooden golf tees.
She would have a blast hammering her "nails"