Tot School Birthday Activities

Somehow this amazing, energetic, headstrong little boy I dreamed of for so long, is now two years old! I decided to take the week off from our Shape Themes and do a light birthday theme for the week.

I started with some birthday and party related books on his shelf. A couple are Meet the Sight Words readers, If you Give a Pig a Party, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, a Non-Fiction Sight words reader, an Amazing Animals reader and Happy Pig Day.

He was thrilled to come down and see the Happy Birthday Sign (actually the day before his birthday, for Daddy's birthday).

I made a sensory bin with multicolored rice, flour filled balloons, prickly balls, bows, silicone cupcake liners and some candles. He ended up adding scoops and his rainbow wheel. This bin actually got a couple weeks of use (before I got tired of cleaning up rice, he would have happily kept it out longer). Both kids enjoyed the flour filled balloons.

We matched some birthday word vocabulary cards (Free here).

Helping make key lime pie for Daddy's birthday (hand squeezed key lime juice got spilled, sweetened condensed milk got spilled, the pie almost got cut prematurely, but happy memories were made).

Some candles and play dough kept him entertained for quite a while.

I got this size sorting activity from Homeschool Creations.

More size sorting and word puzzles from Miniature Masterminds

 

Shelves this week had lacing letters, two part puzzles, stacking domes, a shape/color gross motor game, shape sorting cupcakes, shape envelopes, Birthday Present Beginning Sound Cards, ice cream, a birthday cake set, some flexible road pieces and a bin of vehicles.

Lacing letters were the biggest hit of the week. He LOVED them. He laced them, carried them around, tried to put them on his train tracks. I have a feeling we will be getting these out pretty often in the coming weeks of Tot School.

I made this felt color/shapes gross motor game a while back, but added wooden dice (DIY template here). We only play with one die at a time. Now that he's older, we did things like tiptoeing or hopping to the next shape.

My little guy loves letters, so I made this beginning letter sound matching activity (Free here)

Loving his cupcakes!

I made this shape sorting mail set when Xander was little. I love that Archer gets to use it now.

Xander made some letters out of the flexible road pieces for Archer. He loved it! Maybe someday we will get enough to make even more letters at a time!

Birthday Themed Tot School

Birthday Week

Xander is 24 Months

With Halloween and Xander's birthday being last week, we planned a relatively light Tot School week.  He really seemed to like the activities we did though.

Birthday Words

This tray had some 3 part cards of birthday words (which you can download here or from the Printables Page).  I also made a Little Reader lesson you can download here.

Food/Friend Sorting

I got this sorting activity from 1+1+1=1.  He thought it was funny to talk about the friends.  He thought the one little boy was Little Boy Blue from Super Why.

Thomas Memory Game
I made Xander a new set of memory games (I will be sharing them later this week).  He LOVED the Thomas theme.  I had trouble holding him to one or two games at a time.

Candle Counting
This tray was the favorite, by far!  It had a set of silicone baking cups, some candles, and 0-5 number tiles.  I would put a number tile in front of each baking cup for him to put the corresponding number of candles in.  

He kept putting the candle to his head and saying "umbrella."

Balloon Size Sort

This balloon size sorting activity was from Homeschool Creations.  There were too many for him to sort on his own, but he had fun doing it with my help.

Birthday Color Match

This activity was from HSPrintables.  He had a good time matching the colors on the clothespins to the wheels.  He thought it looked like a sun.

Special Events

This was Xander's Super Why inspired costume.   I couldn't find a Super Why costume small enough, so I ordered the personalize shirt from Etsy and made the cape and mask to match.  Even though he didn't get to go trick or treating (Mommy had class late that night), he got to wear it to a party at the children's museum and to a day care party.

My baby turned two last week!  We had a wonderful day, and I will do a separate post with recaps.

Toys

Playing with some interchangeable vehicles from IKEA and his beginner pattern blocks.

For more Birthday Themed ideas, check out my Birthday Pinterest Board