What's tool week without your own tool board?! Since the tools were already out from making the Latch Board my hubby made the boys a board they could use to practice their handyman skills on!
So this one was really simple and we plan on adding a few things to it but for now, they just love it and it works!
Materials:
Two pieces of shelving board screwed together (so nails don't go through your floor :) )
bolts
nuts
screws
nails
plant hooks
Rivets
drill
screwdriver
hammer
HOW TO:
For this one it was easy peasy! First you need to screw the two pieces of shelving board together so that your little guy doesn't screw holes or hammer nails into your floor. Then, You just hammer, twist or screw items in the board. I would suggest drilling holes for nails and screws first a few times before inserting the items so that it makes it easier for little hands to actually screw, hammer, and twist off. When we first let cowboy try, he couldn't get any of the screws out :( so we realized we needed to make it a little easier for him. Once we did that he was all about hammering, and unscrewing! He also loved twisting off the washers/nuts.
Cowboys Tool Shop
Click the link to Check out our Homemade Latch Board
.........If you have a board similar please post in comments and I will feature it on my blog to show everyone different ideas! Hope your little one enjoys theirs as much as ours have!
My boys LOVE anything that they can open, shut, latch, screw, nail, hook up, turn on, off etc. This week as I prepared for the letter H I knew the animal was going to be Hippo, but for vocabulary and theme I went with Tools! H- for hammer etc. My boys have a ton of building play things and tools so this was the perfect week to do a tool theme. I had come across some homemade latch boards before and always wanted my husband to make one for the boys. This weekend was a rainy lazy weekend, so that meant my husband had some free time:) so I reminded him about the boards I saw and he said he would make one! I was so excited!! So Sunday afternoon the boys helped their daddy make a latch board!
HOW TO:
My husband just cut out a piece of Luan, and marked where all the items were going to be placed first. Then he drilled holes using his drill so that the rivets would go through easier. One by one he just used his rivet gun and connected the latches on the Plywood :) So easy, a GIRL could do it ! But I am glad that he did it for me haha.
All my boys hard at work :)
Cowboy in action!
Click on the link to Check out our homemade TOOL BOARD for hammering nails, and drilling etc.
Trays and books:(Scroll to bottom for list of tools used and where to purchase)
Color Gorillas worksheet
Vocab cards (farm theme)
ABC Ladybug puzzles
Letter G Maze and Dot paint
Number Train Puzzle
Fisher Price Learning Pig
Pop the Pig
Stacking tool
Dry Erase Center
Alphatales Letter G
My "g" book
Chart time: Going over letter of of the week, shapes and numbers.
Going over our vocabulary pictures. The pictures revolved around Goat and were farm themed.
We Started off by reading our Alphatales Book Gg Gorilla, Be Good!
Traced the letter Gg using Crayola Dry Erase Center.
I love these Letter Mazes from 1+1+1=1! They are so awesome. You don't have to use just dot paint. You could use pom poms, stickers, colors, magnets, etc!
I have taken a break from Calendar Time until Lou starts school which will be soon! In the meantime, we still do our animal discussion page, and our tot notebook :) Here is Cowboy answering his questions about the picture of the Gorillas.
This weeks hit, I would have to say, for sure, was Pop the Pig.
Wow, I thought this game was so corny when I first got it. Cowboy LOVES this game. His reaction the first time the pig popped was priceless! He was kind of worried and scared at first but then started cracking up laughing! This is the play by play as he popped.
It teaches, (besides don't eat too much!) colors, numbers and has a little bit of sensory thrown in the mix. As the belly gets bigger and bigger it starts to feel like someone were blowing up a balloon, also it takes a bit of muscle to push on the pigs head :) Cowboy asked for this game everyday this week, and so yes.. I am POPPED out! I am glad he liked it so much!
Counting and colors with Little Pig....
Doing each one of the stacker pegs on his own.
Number Train Puzzle, I called out a number and he would point to the correct number if he knew which one it was.
This week he wanted to paint his letter craft so I picked out yellow (gold for G!!) he painted it, after it dried he glued on the Gorillas.
Lou came to school one day to work on a play she is writing, and relieved me of my pop the pig duty!
Tiny Tot: Butter Currently 15 months old
Butter came out one day this week and played with the money pig. This is the perfect toy for him right now because its teaching him how things work. How to put things in, take them out, hand eye corrdination, colors, shapes etc. He jumped right on in and knew just what to do! It was so cute watching him think :)
Butter did the Wooden stackers too.....
I pulled out his busy gears LOVE THIS TOY! He loved trying to pull them off while they were spinning
Of course we had to take a break from all his hard work to do his favorite activity when hes at school.... SPIN in the BIG chair!!
Then wrapped up his tiny tot school with some sorting....as you can see he moved around a good bit. His favorite spot was right on top of the tray :) He also tried the tongs.. but only really wanted to eat them!
I found these star ice cube trays for $0.50 for 2 at Walmart after 4th of July. They worked perfect for sorting.
This tray included a 3 piece goat puzzle, shadow matching, lacing card, and size sequencing cards.
He thought hard about what came 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
Instead of using a string this week we tried lacing with Pipecleaners... as you can see, Cowboy was proud of himself for figuring it out!!
