Educational activities gone awry..

As Dane is getting older, it's fun coming up with educational activities for us to do together. Unfortunately, he's not the best student. He is easily distracted and definitely has a mind of his own. Here are two activities we did this week where Dane and I had completely different ideas of how to approach the project.

#1 - I took a paper towel roll and wrote the numbers 0-9 on it and I wanted Dane to match numbered stickers to the number on the tube. Here's how the activity began.


And this is what it turned into....

If you look closely you can see the sticker under the number 8 by his mouth and you can also see the number 7 with no sticker because we lasted about 30 seconds with how I thought the activity should be done. ;)

Dane also thought it would be fun to play with the transparent backing from the stickers. This was wild entertainment for him and he ran around the dining room table for quite some time covering his eyes with the paper.


#2 - To practice fine motor skills, I thought it would be fun for Dane to use tweezers to move around puffed balls in an ice cube tray.

Here he is so engrossed...


although those pictures are very deceiving because this is what happened to the balls after about 2 mintues...