Afternoon Activities

I have tried to be really deliberate about doing purposeful activities with the boys (mainly Levi), scheduling out two a week, but most weeks I forget about it entirely until we all get bored and I'm desperate for a change of pace.  Such was the case one afternoon this week: after our post-nap snack, we simply needed something new to do!

Levi was content to get out the playdough . . .

making numbers out of rolls of dough . . . 

and pressing shapes . . . 

 . . . so I whipped up an activity for Owen I'd been contemplating for a while (based on dozens of ideas from blogs and pinterest).  I cut several holes in the lid of an old peanut container, loaded up a plastic bowl with fuzzy pom-poms, and showed him how to push them in.

Owen was willing to do this about one and a half times before he was more interested in dumping the bowl of pom-poms on the ground.  Levi, however, begged and begged to have a turn, so I eventually released Owen from the high chair, put the playdough away, and gave the pom-poms to Levi.  He must have pushed them all into the peanut container half a dozen times at least before he finally was ready to get down!  So much for a "young toddler" activity.  It kept one of the boys entertained, anyway!