Printable Flash Cards from Mr Printables

I found a website called Mr. Printables and they have the cutest flash cards that you can print for free!

I printed a few and cut them out and laminated them and Little Man has already learned about 20 new words.

He's very excited about his flashcards.

The website has:
Animals (cartoon and poloroid style)
Colors
Shapes
ABC's (a couple of different versions)
Numbers (Regular numbers and a lady bug version)
Earth vocabulary
Victorian style kitchen stuff
Fruits and vegetables
Note cards
Calanders and more!

They also have these cute things called monthters, where they have little monster calendars for every month that you can print out.

The website is amazing and best of all FREE, so head on over there and check it out!

Here are some of the printables available

Earth Vocabulary

Animal Flashcards

Update: Spring!!!!

Little Man's flowers have started to come up! Here are some pictures of them!

He added some rocks that he got from the train tracks.

The black dirt is from the dirt that his worm was in. He wanted his worm to live with his flowers!

Painting rocks

When you have nothing better to do..... Paint Rocks! Little Man loves to paint or "pake" as he calls it so I thought that it would be cute to get him to paint some of the little rocks that we have in our front yard.

First we gathered some small rocks. I decided to use the bottom of one those dog igloo things for us to paint on so we didn't make a mess.

Little Man looking down at the rocks and bringing me paint.

Little Man likes to paint himself more than anything else!

 Once they are done, throw them back with the rest of the rocks and you have a truly unique garden!

DIY ABC Book

I'm working on ABC's with Little Man right now so I decided to make him an ABC book with objects and people that are familiar to him, so maybe he will relate to them.

Great picture I know! Lol... but you get the idea!

I used this picture as the cover of his book. So we can practice singing the alphabet together without having to flip through pages.

I used D is for Daddy, B is for Ball Pit, F is for Football, and I used family members for letters that they fit into, like Gigi, Nanna and Papaw.

Like his I spy book, I just put these pictures into a small photo album. You could also laminate them and use binder rings to hold them together. Little Man is rough so he needed an actual album so his book didn't get tore up :(

Spring !!!

Spring is finally here!

This year I've decided to let Little Man plant something..... but what do boys plant? I didn't know whether to get him flowers, vegetables, fruit or what.

Someone gave us a little table thing (I have no idea what it is lol) it had a little top thing on it but Little Man is a bit too old for it, so I decided to turn it into a planter for him!

Anyway, back to the plant type issue. I finally came to terms with the fact that boys can plant flowers too! So I got a dollar out of Little Mans piggy bank and let him pick out some seeds, he picked some flowers called Sweet William. They look like this once they bloom:

So today he helped me put dirt into his planter and we planted his seeds.


I made him a little watering bottle until I can think of something better to make him for it. I just got a regular plastic bottle and cut a few slits into the top with a knife so he can shake it over the planter and water his flowers.

And his bottle fits perfectly into his planter!

He loved helping me with this! I just hope that the early excitement doesn't wear off and I get stuck taking care of flowers all summer!

Egg carton matching

I've seen this done many times and it's a lot of fun!

We took an egg carton and I let Little Man paint it. Once it was dry I used paint swatches from a paint store that matched plastic easter eggs that we had around the house, I cut little circles out and glued them into the bottom of each of the egg holes.

Always mixing his colors

I think he enjoyed painting himself better than the carton!

This was the hardest part for me because I can't cut a perfect circle to save my life! And I get frustrated when things don't turn out well... but in the end I finally told myself it was ok!

His finished painting!

Once it is dry you place the matching easter eggs in the right spots and let your little one have at it. Little Man loves playing with this, and even though he doesn't match the colors yet it is a great way to introduce him to colors and matching!

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sitting on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs, Yum! Yum!
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four speckled frogs,
Ribbit Ribbit!

Keep counting down until there are no more speckled frogs.

We sing a lot around here and lately Little Man wants to hear this one. So I decided to make him a craft for it. I traced five frogs onto a piece of paper and let Little Man color it.

While he was doing that I found a piece of light blue construction paper and cut part of the top off, this is for the frogs to sit in at the bottom to make it look like they "jumped" into the water, so you want to make it like a little pocket.. You glue the very bottom and the edges on to the bottom of the blue construction paper. and make sure your frogs will fit into it. (Ours didn't fit so we made two and put them together)

Then you cut a piece of brown paper to go across the middle of the blue page. We didn't have brown so we just colored brown on white paper. Then you glue it just like you did the blue at the bottom, Edges and very bottom. Once you are done you can sit your frogs in and sing away!!

We drew "bugs" for our frogs to eat (everyone thought they were birds though lol!)

This only one page, there are two other frogs on the page next to it.

BUTTERFLY!!!!

We've been watching a lot of Pocoyo around here lately. Our favorite one is when he trys to catch a butterfly but he keeps screaming BUTTERFLY!! and scaring it away! Everyone keeps telling Pocoyo to shhh! But he still screams butterfly!

Little Man likes to yell butterfly now too (but he says "fly fly!"), so I thought that he would like to make a butterfly.

I drew two wings and a body on construction paper. I let Little Man pick the color for the wings, he chose red. I was going to make the body brown but couldn't find any paper so we did it orange.

After I drew the shapes of it I let Little Man color away!

He wanted to color more on the paper that didn't have the butterfly on it but it's ok.

After he was done coloring I cut out the shapes and glued them together and we had a beautiful butterfly for Little Mans wall!

The Foot Book

Today we read The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss and Little Man really liked it. We read it together and then he "read" it a couple times by himself.

So I decided to try to get Little Man's footprints on paper and write some of the words from the book on it.

Little Man was apprehensive about sticking his feet in paint!! We stripped him down to his skivvy's!

He was watching as Daddy poured paint into a box.

We had to do it about 3 times before we were satisfied with the first footprint, we learned that we had to get some of the excess paint off before we put it on the paper. So we had him step onto a dry part of the box first.

We did his feet two different colors.

Once the paint was dry I wrote "Left foot. Right foot. Feet. Feet. Feet. Oh, the feet you meet!" My handwriting isn't that great but I'm still happy with how it turned out!

I forgot to take a picture of it before I put it up on his wall so I just snapped one really quick while Little Man was asleep!

CD Case Wipe Board

This is something fun that little kids LOVE!! All you need is an empty CD case and some paper and markers!

You start by taking out the part that holds the CD. You might want to line the paper up inside so you know how big of a piece to cut out. You will also need a piece for the front of the case.

Once you have your paper figured out you can decorate it anyway you want, or you can leave it blank for them to write all over. I used Sharpie Pens to decorate the inside of the case, they are my favorite.

Little Man colored while I made this for him

I started by doing everything in pencil then went over it in marker (in case I messed up). I put 2 shapes, the alphabet, his name, lines for him to write, and 3 numbers. Once you are done put the pages in the front and back of the CD case

I taped the CD case closed so Little Man wouldn't open it and tear the pages out, he's a little rough sometimes :(   You will need a dry-erase marker to write on the outside so you can wipe it off. I gave Little Man one of his old baby washcloths to wipe off the marker.

 Little Man just scribbles over the whole thing!

But his favorite part is wiping it all off and doing it again!

Number Sticker Painting

This is something that I used to do in school when I was little and I wanted to try it again with Little Man. I'm gonna start working on his numbers with him so I thought it was the perfect opportunity.

You place number stickers on a white sheet of paper. Preferably stickers that have the inside holes in them (mine didn't but all I had to do was fill in the circles so he could recognize the numbers).

Then let your little one paint away on it! The more of the page they cover the better! I had to keep telling Little Man where he needed a little more paint so his numbers were colored completley.

Little Man's favorite color is "all dem". He loves to mix all of his colors together, almost everything he paints is the same mixed color!

Painting away

 Almost done!

And then he was done.

Be sure to let the paint dry before you peel off the stickers or some of the paint will smudge or get stuck to the stickers.

Little Man really enjoyed watching me pull the stickers off, I got "ooohs" and "ahhhs" the whole time!

Driveway Paint Fun

We decided to make some more of the paint today using our old paint recipe. Even Prince Charming joined in on the fun today.

Little Man Painted a stick!

Prince Charmings artwork!

This is from where we dumped the paint out at the end! Little Man had fun doing this but quickly became distracted by hitting thing with sticks!!

Sewing Card

I love sewing cards. I just think that they are fun and cute for kids. So I decided to try and make my own for Little Man.

But first look at how Little Man was sleeping last night!!!

But anyways, I just colored a picture out of his coloring book. He's into boats right now so I picked a boat and glued it onto some cardboard. Then I cut around some of the cardboard so it wouldn't be too hard for his little hands to hold.

Then I took a hole puncher and punched several holes around the picture. Once that is done all you have to do is make your "needle" and yarn.

You need to measure your yarn to make sure it will go all the way around your card. I doubled mine, and tied a knot at the end. For the "needle" I used a pipe cleaner. I just cut a piece off and folded it around the loopy part of the yarn. Once this is done you need to test it out to make sure the knot at the end isn't too small. I had to tie mine three times to get it right.

Mine looks a little rough, my scissors weren't very good for the cardboard. But Little Man seems to like it and that's all that matters!! Even the older kids want me to make some for them.

Sorry I didn't take any pictures while making it, we were playing outside at the time!