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Quick Sticker Hunt & Stick Activity

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It's Spring Break!


And so all the boys' routine activities, like school and swim are taking a vacation, but that means no vacation for this mama!

Keeping 5 and (almost) 4 year old children's minds and bodies occupied all day is a challenge, to say the least. 

While finishing up one of many daily Pokemon games with Rowan, Cid started grabbing at my massive Bag-O-Stickers (does every mom have one of these? They should) and a light bulb went off.

Rather than just have the kids randomly put stickers on a piece of paper, which I think would literally bore Rowan to death, I asked them to give me TWO minutes to put together a surprise activity for them. 

They followed me around while I gathered my materials, cut a piece of printer paper in two pieces,2 and began to draw shapes on each piece with a good ol' ball point pen.

The result?

A Sticker Hunt & Stick Activity!


 Rowan and Cid each got a page.

The goal:  Find and place stickers that match the shapes on the paper.


Simple. Fun.



I am pretty familiar with my bag of stickers (I've had most of them since I was a kid. It's amazing they still stick....Hoarder Alert!).  So I drew shapes on the paper that I knew they could find stickers to match.

While our highlighted activity today may only provide a few glorious moments of peace, it was a major hit and so impromptu I could hardly believe my pregnant mind was able to come up with it.

My sticker hunt & stick template could be printed out for this, but honestly, this is a very individualized activity and depends very much on what stickers you have at your disposal.  So bust out that pen and paper and draw your heart out!


Letter L - Paper Plate Lions (BTW, We Skipped a Few Letters)

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This week we celebrate "L".

Yes, at this point, we are not following the alphabet in order. That's ok.  The letter this week at Rowan's school was "L" so when my mom was kind enough to bring us down some "L" activities, we were happy to go with the flow.

Today we made lions.


I chose this project because it focused on CUTTING, which is an important part of a child's motor skill development.

We used to do a lot of cutting at home, but lately I've been relying on school. However, apparently school mostly pre-cuts everything for them.  The last home project where I asked them to cut, they balked and got frustrated. Rowan was so out of practice that he was trying to cut with his left hand! Sometimes I wonder why I bother to pay for Pre-K.

I felt like this lion would offer easy, straight cutting lines to get them back on the wagon.

All you need is:

-Paper plate
-Construction paper (we used orange, yellow, brown, and black)
-Glue
-Scissors

Have the kids cut strips of colored paper and glue them around the paper plate to make the lion's mane.  A black triangle makes the nose and two black circles make the eyes.  Three thin strips of black for the whiskers.

So straight forward! (and it actually occupies them for a while, which is a pretty big deal)


Depending on skill level, help out as needed

I traced circles and a triangle for the eyes and nose and drew cutting lines on the colored construction paper since the the boys are rusty.

I also pre-cut the thin whisker strips, only because we are just re-introducing cutting and I didn't want them to get overwhelmed.  The mane, nose, and eyes were plenty practice.

And, I did an example lion to show what their goal was.


Of course, Rowan's lion's mane is in a pattern. Did you notice? (Yellow, brown, yellow, orange...repeat).  That kid.

Cid decided he wanted a "mommy lion"....soooo....no mane. But he did cut quite a few strips and eventually gave her a beard, and some sparkly glue and stickers.

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