(And All My) Work Be Praise

I started this post when Silas was three weeks old.  We've been just a little bit busy since then (and still are). Regardless, considerably after the fact, here I present to you three activities that were perfect in ability level (a bit challenging, but not so much as to be frustrating) for my then-35-month-old. Fishing At that time, we were reading about Jesus calling his disciples to become "fishers of men" in our morning Bible time, so I thought we should do some sort of fishing activity.  People all over the blogging world have great ideas about attaching string to a dowel rod, tying a magnet to the end of the string, creating cute little fish with magnets in their mouths to fish for, etc.  I am 1) not that crafty, 2) not that blessed with extra time, and 3) not that concerned with having my activities be cute.  In lieu of those three things, I hooked a paper clip onto a piece of string and threw our letter and number magnets in a laundry basket.  The ...