5 a day habit- week 3

Well I cant believe it is that time of the week again.  This weeks theme for our books, is moving.  Mainly ones that get mini-faithful and usually me as well, moving.  There is one exception, but we do move along when we read it and its one of mini-faithfuls first books, and I love it....

First book this week is: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes.  This book is simple, and shows you the moves to the traditional song.  Faith loves this song and the book as well.

Our second book is: Monkey and me. We love this book, we use not only does it have a lovely pictures of animals it also shows you some moves those animals make, we then spend some time making those moves round the room.

The third book this week is: Animal Boogie. I first used this book at work, and knew instantly mini-faithful would love it.  Although it does cheat as it has a CD to help you sing the words.  But its a great book for getting you moving...

The fourth book is: Giraffes cant dance! This is a lovely book, that doesnt get you moving, but is about a dancing giraffe.  This is one of my favourite books to read to mini-faithful, we have been reading this book together since she was a month old.  Its a lovely story.

The final book is: Doing the Animal Bop! This is a lovely book, with great rhymes.  It gives you actions and noises to make so you look like the animals!

On a side note, why not pop along to Rainy Day Mums blog this week (find it here) as there is a competition to win a lovely recipe book....

Messy Foam Play

This is an idea I came across in my day job, and thought it would transfer well to playing with little ones.  We loved playing with the different textures and generally making a mess.

What you need:

Shaving foam

Paints

Paper

Pasta and/or Rice

What to do:

We used  the highchair so that she was contained for the messy play!

Then put some shaving foam, and different coloured paints on her highchair tray so she could make a mess.

We also gave her some paper so she could make ‘pictures’ of her mess.

After she had been playing with the paints and foam for a while, we introduced some dried pasta and rice to introduce a different texture.

Other ideas

I follow a few blogs done by some friends of mine, one of them (rainy day mum) asked how others do messy play.  So I thought I would use this opportunity to say how we do messy play.  We use the highchair, when baking or doing small painting etc.  For larger messy play, water play being a great example, we use the kitchen floor.  Our kitchen floor is wipe clean and dark coloured tiles.  We do now have an issue with using the floor as we have a puppy, so painting projects on the floor are a bit of a no no.

10 things I love about you...

Then 10 things I love about my daughter…

1. The fact that when I get a cuddle, which I get a lot, she snuggles in and pats my back.

2. I get lots of kisses throughout the day, although most seem to be given to my belly button.

3. When we get home from a walk, day out, drive or in fact anytime we get home.  She says “button please” until we let her press the doorbell, then says “who’s that”

4. Whenever she (or indeed anyone else) drops anything or falls over she says “uh oh”

5. She has to say “hello” to the cats and dog when she wakes up, every time we come home from somewhere, and every time she sees them.  Then says “bye bye” to them all when we go out and “night night” when she goes for a nap or its bedtime.

6. That she dances every time she hears music, singing or whistling, and sometimes when there is no music on at all.

7. She talks and sings herself to sleep at night and nap times, and usually wakes up doing the same.

8. That she knows what she wants and wont settle till she gets it.

9. That she makes every day worthwhile, even the ones that start too early.

10. Everything.  I realise this is cheating, but I love everything!