Painting with Water: This is a great activity either indoors on paper or outside on the sidewalk. It is simple and inexpensive and I bet you have all of the supplies on hand! We did painting with water indoors because it was a rainy day, ironically enough. So I just had Emma use a wooden craft stick and construction paper. She had a great time and there was little to no cleanup.
Fireworks Paintings: With Music in Plymouth, Fourth of July, and the Aquatennial, there are a lot of fireworks in our area in July. This is another very simple and inexpensive craft that we did with things we already had on hand. I saved toilet paper tubes and paper towel tubes for a week or so then cut the bottoms and used finger paint and our tubes to stamp firework images all over a few sheets of paper. Emma had a great time and didn't want to stop!
And, of course...
Read: Reading is one of the best activities you can do with your child at any age!
Read: Reading is one of the best activities you can do with your child at any age!
A few of Emma and Bryson's current favorites are:
- The Deep, Deep Puddle by Mary Jessie Parker
- Road Work Ahead by Anastasia Suen
- Hogwash! by Karma Wilson
My 3 good things for today are:
- I just celebrated my sixth anniversary with the best husband ever!
- My baby girl is turning three!! Somehow both a very happy and very sad thing...
- Watermelon. Enough said.
