Today's fun activity was music balloons! I took several small items and put them inside a balloon. Then I put those same items in a jar on the table so the kids could see.
Then I had Finnegan shake the balloons and see if he could match the jar to the item in the balloon. He got it right every time. I will have to admit that he could almost see through the balloon if he held it up to the light, but hey, he still figured it out! Oh...and you might have noticed that he's dressed as a rocket ship. I have no explanation for that. He just put it on!
Lorelai wasn't as interested in figuring out what was in the balloons. She just wanted to open the jars and play with all the little choking hazards.
Here he is matching them up with the right balloon.
This is the "googly eye" balloon.
This is the "pony bead" balloon.
And this is the "bell" balloon.
And then he wanted to pop the balloon to see that he was right. So here are the beads that were inside one of the balloons.
As I said, Lorelai just wanted to dump them all out. So I got out an egg carton and she got to sort them all. I use the term "sort" very loosely. It was more like "dumping".
Getting out all the googly eyes!
Everything is all sorted (thanks to Mommy).
I finally got a good smile out of him! He never gives me genuine smiles when I have the camera out. And believe it or not, he was crying about 5 seconds before this. Go figure.
He's a dare devil! I don't think that's how you're supposed to use the trampoline!
Here he's jumping on the trampoline and bouncing Lorelai. I think she likes it.
More dumping out the jars.
All in all, this was a good activity. Finnegan loved that he could shake balloons and there was something inside. He was proud of himself for figuring out what was in there. Popping them was pretty exciting too! My only problem with it is the number of small items! Lorelai can't stop putting them in her mouth!
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