January 5th 2015 - dice

January 5th 2015 - dice

Today peace and quite has resumed in the house as 2/3 kids are back at school and the other 1 is on his computer.  I have painted the last part of the wall in the boys bedroom (eldest son helped by doing the top and painting the ceiling blue as he went grrrr! never mind!) and I have done todays pin.

I have made a sealed pot dice for in the car.  The original idea came from here and was so dice didnt fly across the room.  But my boys have asked if they can have the snowman game from the other day in the car, so that will be being laminated and put in a folder with other similar bits.

January 4th 2015 - race game

4th Janury 2015 - race game

Little man was saying he was bored so I decided to do today's pin as another game for him.  I have various things like it pinned to my board "ideas for the kids to do".  The original pin can be found here.  Our version was slightly different and probably took longer as we used buttons!

The idea was a race to fill your cup by rolling a dice and adding that many objects to it.  Little man won (but i'm sure he was cheating and adding more buttons than what the dice said.)  It also helped him with his counting and he even counted some of them out in french and spanish!

He enjoyed it and asked if we could play again, but as it was dinner time we had to put them away.  But it will certainly be a game we will do again, maybe with lego bricks so it doesn't take as long!

January 2nd 2015 - Do you wana build a snowman???

January 2nd 2015 - Day 2 of 365 challenge

Do you wana build a snowman???  Sadly we have no real snow to do one, but I found this dice and drawing game and printed it out.  Me and the boys had fun for about 45mins playing it.  The pic shows a couple of our snowmen pictures.  I think I may laminate the game and put in a folder to start a games folder of easy things they can do in the car.