Ee is for Earth Activities

After a two-week break from the Letter of the Week activities, we are back to our usual routine! We are on our fifth week, with the letter E as the basis for our themes. Looking back, I have discovered what Lia likes best, and that is sensory and gross motor play. I would still be injecting all sorts of play at this point, but minimizing them in a day instead of doing too many varied activities daily. She liked all the fun things I give her, but I feel like we need some time to snuggle in the couch especially that the cold season is here! 

Anyways, back to the topic. I had a hard time finding E things that had a book to go with, or something that is interesting for Lia. I chose from doing eggs, eggplant, electricity, Elmo, engine, earth, elephant and more. There are actually a lot out there, only that few of them caught my attention.

So I decided with Earth. We painted a picture of what looked like an Earth, with green and blue paint. I poured some paint on the back of a paper plate and let Lia mix them altogether.

We used these paints for our activity. Made sure they're washable!

Just adding drops of both colors around...

...and there's that hand that just couldn't wait to touch the paint!

 Then she went to town!

 We pressed the bottom part of the plate onto a clean sheet of paper...

 ...and it created this beautiful effect!

 Then I prepared this simple garden sensory bin for her. We were going to pretend to plant flowers, to help make the Earth a beautiful place to live in.

Of course, she would rather scoop and pour those beans!

I originally set out a plan to do gross motor play with her by scattering pieces of paper on the floor and in turn, ask her to pick them up and throw them in the garbage. But we were too tired from the weekend birthday celebration we had, so we opted to nap after this activity!

DAY TWO

For the second day, I opted to do a Bible story theme, which was the Days of Creation. It was really simple, but Lia enjoyed it nonetheless. I grew up attending
Sunday School and I remember how I love listening to Bible stories as a kid.

I read the book while she was enjoying her Creation-themed sensory bin. It wasn't the best, but it depicted the creation story.

I made a division between land and see, put in flowers and plants, man, animals, stars and sea creatures, as well as the seven days of creation printable from Christian Printables.

 A closer look. Most of these toy animals are Safari Toobs or from the dollar store.

Little fishies and shells!

Lia played with the bin for around 20 minutes and she was done. She is used to my sensory bins, so it's not something new to her.