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tia it s so cute and i just melt whenever i see him tapping his foot and singin a tune update oops i made a mistake we re partaking in tiny talk tuesday over at not before 7 not monkey see monkey do as i originally posted but go and check out terra s blog anyway she s one amazing mommy thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 9 30 am 7 comments labels tiny talk tuesday saturday august 28 2010 muffin tin meal yellow after putting together our yellow sensory tub i decided to make a yellow themed muffin tin meal for james he loved it muffin tin meals are so much fun to eat out of and to prepare the individual cups really appeal to my ocd tendencies organized nature d here s what in it baby corn kix cereal jell o pepper sticks scrambled eggs pineapple a cup of lemonade here are some more yellow food ideas bananas lemons corn kernals or cobs macaroni and cheese grapefruit summer squash yellow wax beans pears cheese crackers mustard lemon flavored yogurt cornbread rice mixed with saffron or turmeric cupcakes thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 9 30 am 13 comments labels colors muffin tin meals wednesday august 25 2010 counting coconuts is finally on facebook ok after some persuading i ve taken the plunge i ve created a facebook page for counting coconuts thank you for suggesting i do this it ll be a fun way to share my ideas outside the blog world not sure when or if i ll have time to update it all that often but i ll do my best i have a few links and albums posted already so check my left sidebar and please pretty pretty please join me on facebook i do want to apologize to those of you who have asked me to create a twitter account i just can t on account of the fact that i am avoiding twitter like the plague thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 1 30 pm 13 comments labels blogging saturday august 21 2010 sensory tub yellow surprise it s another sensory tub actually it s probably not much of a surprise since i did mention in a previous post that i was going to make two tubs for august but if i m honest this isn t that 2nd outdoor tub i never got around to making it note to self don t blog about doing something until you ve done it this one is just as fun though take a look i was inspired when maggie from redtedart very sweetly reached out to me about her upcoming get crafty yellow blog carnival be sure to check it out for some crafty ideas tia my niece and i had so much fun putting this together there are lots of goodies in this tub and really too many to list in full but here s a sample of what s inside star shaped pasta we dyed only some of it yellow to give it that mottled look various types of pom poms buttons a bean bag google eyes beads mini erasers a wooden egg a rubber ducky number beads popsicle sticks 2 cups for scooping or sorting a strawberry huller for picking out objects i ve added a little twist to this tub i photographed some of the objects and created a bingo card the idea is that james will use the photos on the card to hunt for and find the corresponding object sort of an i spy kind of thing instead of a bingo card another idea i had but didn t end up implementing was to create individual cards for each object laminate them and then put them together on a ring james used his magnifying glass his most favorite thing at the moment to investigate the tub my very creative niece tia is here visiting us and she has been brainstorming with me about some new sensory tub ideas oh my goodness did we come up with some good ones i can t wait to share them with all of you i m linking this post up to montessori monday tot tuesday and the preschool corner thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 6 00 pm 47 comments labels colors sensory tubs tuesday august 17 2010 for the love of oranges there s nothing better than a bright juicy orange don t you think the stores are full of them at the moment and so i thought we d have a little fun a great practical life activity squeezing oranges james loved this work and put some serious effort into squeezing the juice out of the oranges when he finished he drank a cup full of juice smiling in between sips notice the cute apron he s wearing it was lovingly made for james by his aunt beth i found the fabric at joann s in april and knew it would make a fun practical life apron beth is a wonderful seamstress and when i asked her if she d make the apron i don t own a sewing machine she very sweetly agreed and because she has a heart of gold she made a matching apron for me too look at these aren t they adorable she even embroidered them to read chef james and chef mom and the pockets read happiness is homemade i about cried when i saw that it could be my motto frozen orange cups my niece and i made some frozen orange cups yummy and so quick and easy too first we squeezed the juice out of the oranges then we poured the juice back into the cups and popped them into the freezer i d recommend eating them when the get to the slushy stage they re a bit difficult to eat when they re completely frozen perfect for a hot summer day as james enjoyed his frozen treat i read this book to him the sun egg by elsa beskow a sweet story about a little elf who comes across a giant orb in the forest and thinks the sky has dropped one of its eggs she finds out it s an orange or a sun egg as it is called by the other forest creatures i love beskow s books although i ll say there are a few words that appear from time to time e g stupid that i do not love i simply change the words while reading aloud to james thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 12 00 am 18 comments labels books homemade goodies montessori practical life saturday august 14 2010 tree blocks as i mentioned in this post i m getting a jump start on christmas gift making like last year i m planning on making most of james gifts we decided a while back to cut back on the amount of plastic we have in the house specifically in james playroom and to invite more natural and homemade toys into our home instead so far so good recently paul and i made some tree blocks for one of james christmas gifts i saw these at this online store last fall and knew i wanted to make a set of our own finding the materials proved surprisingly difficult it was really important to me to find wood from a felled tree but since there aren t any real forests here and since bermudians keep the island impeccably clean i had to wait and hope something would magically appear imagine my surprise when while driving along i saw a pile of branches on the side of the road i pulled over and once i found out they were on their way to the dump i wasted no time in selecting a 6 foot branch for our blocks i had to break off the attached smaller branches and i think i gave the tourists waiting at a nearby bus stop quite a laugh me in my flip flops stomping and wrestling with this big branch and then trying to stuff it into my very tiny car the thing i love most about these blocks is that paul and i made them together for james paul sawed them into sections and i sanded down the rough edges once they were all sanded and ready to go the child in me took over and i began stacking and creating towers and castles what fun i made a drawstring pouch to store them in the pattern is of a cute and colorful forest i hope james likes them as much as we do i m linking this up to creative friday sharing time we play and tot tuesday thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 8 00 am 39 comments labels homemade goodies tuesday august 10 2010 beach themed activities here are a few beach theme activities for our shelves practical life pouring sand james has perfected his pouring skills so i m not sure how much longer i ll be preparing this kind of work i ll put it out for as long as he has the interest and so he has the option umbrella pushing similar to our flag pushing activity these are those little drink umbrellas you can just about anywhere james loved them tweezing flowers we did this a few months ago and james really enjoyed it so i put it out again sensory sorting sea glass this was the first activity james chose i think it s because it looks so pretty and natural dr montessori believed children were naturally drawn to real and organic items beach sensory tub click here to read more about it and our sandy playdough sorting beach shapes i found these at the pet store in the fish section i was surprised to observe that james had a hard time differentiating some of the shapes i wonder if he was distracted by the colors language we read a few beach themed books and these are the two i d recommend swimmy by leo lionni a sweet yet simple story with some really cool illustrations on the seashore by anna milbourne i generally like all of the books by this author this one tells the story of a cute little hermit crab who travels a tide pool looking for a new home we are blessed to live so close to tons of amazing beaches so of course we spend a lot of our time there how is this a language activity well after printing out the photo i asked james a bunch of questions about it it was such a great way to get him to think about what he was seeing to use his vocabulary and to learn new words too here s a sample of the questions i asked what is daddy doing with his hands what kinds of activities can you do at the beach why is james wearing a hat can you find anyone else in this picture math sequencing i found the clip art on abcteach com our color printer was down at the time so i colored the images in myself i love coloring i cut out the images laminated them and then took photos of them in various combinations james can use the photo strips to copy the sequences counting coconuts it s about time i got around to creating an activity in honor of my lil blog i cut these shapes out of felt the idea here is that james will shake a homemade die and add that number of coconuts to the tree he ll then shake the other die and add that number to the tree too and then count the sum total it s a fun introduction to addition i used small wooden blocks and a black marker to create the dice note to self buy a wood burning tool quantifying with shells i made some number cards and gathered 55 shells to use as counters measuring palm fronds after collecting a few fronds from our yard i cut them down to various sizes we will use a nifty little tape measure from my sewing stash to measure each piece i think james is really going to like this activity art i realized we haven t done much in the way of organized art lately we made these shell collages last month and james has been spending tons of time coloring and drawing me beautiful pictures that s it these will last us the next few weeks easily this week my niece is coming to stay with us for a couple of weeks and i know james will be happily preoccupied with her on a personal note i m feeling anxious about the upcoming school year i don t know why exactly maybe it s because i haven t made any real plans as to how our school schedule will run i ve made up my mind that we re moving into true homeschooling mode which means we ll be having schooltime everyday just as james would if he were attending a school outside of home i m not at all worried about our curriculum since i have 100 faith in montessori i guess i just need to find some time to sit down and think about it all i m linking up to two wonderful learning spots montessori monday and the preschool corner thank you for your comments posted by counting coconuts at 10 00 am 33 comments labels beach books fine motor language learning tools math montessori practical life sensorial summer sunday august 8 2010 a bit of knitting since learning to knit this past january i ve been busy creating a variety of small things until i work up the courage to attempt something like this or these anyway seeing as a few of you have very sweetly inquired about my knitting adventures i thought i d share what i ve been up to i made a cute little bowl seriously this thing is just big enough for a few pairs of earrings using a bamboo wool mix and a pattern i found in this book this was my first time felting a knitted project and i was quite pleased with the results this little bird didn t turn out as well as i hoped but it s fine enough for our nature table and james thinks it s cute i still have to needle felt in the eyes the yarn is a beautiful handspun wool which i purchased here on etsy you can find the easy to follow pattern here here s something i am proud to share a little drawstring pouch the pattern can be found in this book this came together very quickly just a few hours which is quick for me anyway but i must note that i fingerknitted the drawstrings instead of creating an i cord everyone tells me i cords are easy to make but i just can t get the knack of it i ll revisit it again another day i posted here about my newest hobby spinning yarn and decided to make another larger bowl with some of the fiber it didn t turn out as well as i had hoped still very floppy despite my felting it i think i needed to knit two strands together lots of little fruits i got the pattern from my favorite magazine s website living crafts the pattern itself was created by nicole of frontier dreams i plan on making more of these so they can be used for counting our sensory tubs and as tree ornaments i m sharing the good and the bad with you and this hat definitely falls in the category of bad i had such high hopes for this hat i made it for my darling husband and cast on several additional stitches to account for his large and lovable head but it ended up being waaaay too big it s more like a beret also this was my first attempt at creating a seed stitch a thing which requires focus and concentration a thing which i am not very good at this is my most recent project my rainbow scarf i love it it s super soft super long 6 5 feet and just the right weight for bermuda i didn t follow a pattern for this it s just straight garter stitch i worked on it during the commute to and from colorado and i think now it ll always remind me of that trip i m getting a jump start on christmas and so i m currently working on a new and improved hat for my love in this case i m not even following a pattern i know how rebellious of me because i think hats are basic enough that you don t really need to i ve cast on a sensible number of stitches created a bit of ribbing at the bottom and then i m just going to knit the rest of the way i should mention that i m using my favorite go to method the magic loop the yarn is malabrigo the softest smooshiest and most economical wool i know of the very manly colorway is sfo sky next on my to make list is a pair of socks for me my first attempt and then it s on to making christmas gifts for paul and james speaking of christmas i m asking santa if he d be so kind as to bring me this it s a wooden swift used for unwinding hanks of ya...