Super Heroes

I got this idea from Pinterest, my sister in law had pinned it and I thought it sounded so fun! You make a cape out of an old shirt.


Lincoln's friend Stella came over so I thought it would be more fun to try this project with two super heroes instead of one.

A Day at the Races

I got this idea from my Aunt Jill. We raced feathers and cotton balls by blowing them across the finish line.






Or sometimes we won by picking up the cotton ball and placing it on the finish line.

Silly Putty a.k.a "Egg"

I bought this a couple of days ago and Linc has played with the egg nonstop having no idea the real treasure was inside of it. I put the silly putty on a cookie sheet with some utensils to make designs in it.


Honestly there are so many cute pictures from this activity, he was cracking me up.





I showed him how to put the fork in the silly putty and we would watch it slowly fall waiting with anticipation for it to hit the ground so we could make a big explosion noise.

Balloon

This activity was so simple! I actually had something else planned for today but in the middle of making cookies with Lincoln clinging to my leg asking to "look" and "hold you" I had finally had enough. I usually let Lincoln help me in the kitchen and he even helped me make these cookies but I had gotten to the point where I was rolling them in sugar and I knew I didn't want to clean up that mess. Long story short, I blew up a balloon and the rest is history...

















After playing for awhile I sat him in front of the mirror in his room and showed him how to make his hair stand up. He thought it was hysterical but it was hard to do this and take a picture at the same time, hence the not so hysterical facial expression, so this is the best I got...

Modern art?

So this craft and I were not on the same page from the start. I had all intentions of tracing and cutting out Lincoln's hands then decorating them with items using glue.


Problem number 1- after I traced and cut out Lincoln's hands I realized his hands were too small for the decorations I already had out. So I scratched that idea and just gave him a whole paper bag to decorate.
Problem number 2- I panicked at the last minute with the glue and I ran to the kitchen and mixed powdered sugar with water to make an edible glue-like substance in case it made it's way to his mouth (which it did).
Problem number 3- I added too much water to the powdered sugar so it was a lot runnier than I wanted, but Lincoln's patience had run out so I made due with what we had.
Honestly it turned out to be a fun project but it was nowhere near what I had in mind at the beginning.

Edible finger paint

I have been wanting to do finger painting with Linc but I've been nervous he would try to eat it. So we did finger painting today by mixing vanilla yogurt with food coloring.


And once again I threw him in the bath in a diaper to do this activity, which I highly recommend because it got messy!











And it's a good thing we went the edible route because low and behold it found it's way to his mouth.

Homemade tap shoes!

I've seen this idea a few places online and I've been waiting till he almost outgrew his shoes to try it. You just glue pennies to the bottom of an old pair of shoes.
* warning this makes the shoes pretty slippery!



This is when he first walked with them...

He's becoming more comfortable with them...

We added music and he was becoming a little too confident (his mom may have been encouraging it). It's a good thing he takes falling pretty well because he did fall quite a few times.