shape sort

I recently found a huge bag of foam shapes with my school supplies. M loves them and we've used them for a few things. I wasn't sure how a sort with them would go but M ended up getting really into it and pretending each set of shapes were a family ("where does baby square go?"). 

I made some large construction paper shapes and gave him a bowl of shapes. I showed him two and he caught on right away. I think I will try this again another day with colors. M was calling the large shapes their "houses" so I think making colored houses to sort them into by color would a success. 

window blocks

M has these great foam blocks that we use all the time (we're big fans of blocks).  Today we came up with a new use for them that M had a lot of fun with.  We used water to stick them to our slider and make pictures...

We got a small bowl of water to dip the blocks in and then we stuck them to the glass.  We made a tower and then some letters.  M's favorite part was the dipping...

but he also caught on to the sticking part.  He was also a fan of splashing which is why we only used about a cup and a half of water.  However, I put paper towel under the bowl and when doing this again I would definitely use a towel (or two).  If you have anything made of that foamy material it's a great activity because the pieces just wipe off at the end.