Our Winter Wonderland post is a potato print penguin with a wintery scene!
My daughter loves penguins, so when I signed up to participate in blogging with the other Winter Wonderland bloggers, I knew what that I wanted to do a fun arts/crafts involving a penguin! At first I was thinking of making a styrofoam penguin, but we are low on funds at the moment so I wanted a cheaper craft that was still fun to do! Thus, the idea of potato print penguins was born!
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Our Winter Wonderland post is a potato print penguin with a wintery scene!
My daughter loves penguins, so when I signed up to participate in blogging with the other Winter Wonderland bloggers, I knew what that I wanted to do a fun arts/crafts involving a penguin! At first I was thinking of making a styrofoam penguin, but we are low on funds at the moment so I wanted a cheaper craft that was still fun to do! Thus, the idea of potato print penguins was born!
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In this week’s addition for my tiny tot, you will find a bedtime book, gross motor skills combined with size and color learning, a YouTube song, and a water painting activity! Look below to see what we have for you!
Bedtime Reading:
This week's bedtime story was a big hit for Emilio (almost 20 months), as well as with his big sister! We have been reading Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton. Inside the book there are a lot of different animals you would find in a barn. If you read the book 
Welcome to the Best of 2012 blog hop featuring kids activities, crafts, games, and much more with the Kid Blogger Network!
I am a relatively new blogger, having only been opened since September of 2012. However, I have one post that seems to be mighty popular among my readers and for those who happen upon my blog just from that one activity. This post is titled "Primary Colors: The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and features reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, painting with apples, 
This evening Esmeralda and I took a container from the recycling bin to turn into our very own homemade Christmas rhythm instrument. This is really simple and you most likely already have what you need. If you do not, you will find all of this at the dollar store. Not only is this simple, but it is also a lot of fun! Esmeralda loves to shake it and listen to the "music" her rhythm instrument makes! If you do not celebrate Christmas, make the same thing and call it a holiday rhythm instrument 
Even families who have small children can participate in breast cancer awareness. For the Go Pink! Blog Hop, I wanted to tell my oldest child, 3.5 years old, a very brief explanation that she could understand about what breast cancer means. Since she is so young, she would not understand the technical explanations. I simply told her that breast cancer is a bad sickness that people can get. I also told her that big girls like mommy and grandma should check themselves at home for signs 
I wanted to somehow combine leaves and pumpkins in our outdoor play. I also wanted to include my 17 month old in this project too and not just my 3.5 year old since that's what most of my posts are about.
My mom and I went shopping a few weeks ago and bought Esmeralda and Emilio a new Halloween bucket. Emilio's is green with with bats and Esmeralda's is orange with ghosts and such.
The kids and I went to my mom's so that they could gather the leaves found outside in the backyard