Dippin' Dinners

We LOVE dip! We also love making full meals that are just for dipping, and we do it quite often. We call them dippin' dinners, although more often than not they are for lunch.

Today we made hummus (chick peas, olive oil, lemon juice, s &p, oregano, and basil) and dipped pita, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

We've had Muffin Tin dippin' dinners. This one included guacamole, black bean dip, salsa, sour cream, chocolate, and yogurt and we dipped in nachos with cheese, cucumbers, carrots, bananas, cherries, and plums.

Here we had tzatziki sauce (cucumber, greek yogurt, garlic, s & p, lemon juice, and dill) and dipped in red pepper, pita, chicken, carrots, cucumber, zucchini, and tomatoes.

We have also done dippin' dinners with homemade chicken nuggets and fries with sauce, warm spinach artichoke dip with dippers, and much much more! My kids LOVE to dip, and I love that it's a fun way to get them to eat their fruit and veggies.

Go check out what others are cooking up at Kids in the Kitchen.

Dogs

The kids came to me today and said they wanted to learn about dogs. So we got to work learning about them. Luckly, we have a log and Aidman has always been obsessed with dogs.

This feed the Dog game was the first game Aidman ever got. Since he has had it so long, I decided to make it alittle harder. I did that by adding number cards to the game and having the kids count out that number of bones.

Then we made dog treats. We used this recipe.

This was a really fun dough to work with for the kids.

Since our dog is a boy, they used "boy" shaped cookie cutters.

They turned out pretty good.

And the dog really liked them.

After talking all about different types of dogs and dog safety, we went outside to play with our Boxer Tango.
Tango's 2 favorite things to do are to go on a walk and to eat and chase bubbles. So we did both things.
Tango LOVES bubbles!


Then we went inside and drew dogs. This is Aidman's dog, it is Tango.

Dd Activities

Dominoes. They stood them up.

And matched them up.

Dice. Every time they roll a number they mark/graph it on the chart with a bingo dobber.

Dinosaurs. This is a game, but we did not follow the instructions, we played it more like a puzzle.


Funny that all of this weeks activities ended up being math related.

Dressing Up!

If you don't have a dress up box, GET ONE!! Not only is it Hysterical to watch your kiddos try on silly outfits, but they are learning SO MUCH while they are doing it. They are learning to role play, gaining imagination, self esteem, cooperative play, and motor skills to put on different types of clothes, etc.

The types of dress up clothes you could have are: old halloween costumes (I find them for Cheap right after halloween), old clothes from mom and dad, wigs, scarves, hats, tiaras, purses, shoes, etc.

Aidman looked like a Christmas Pimp.

My niece Laneybug had so much fun dressing up!

Lyssy looked like she was ready to go out on the town.

Qq, Dd, Mm, and Ww Art

I promised that I would post some of our letter of the week work. Today we painted on the letter Qq using q-tips. The kiddos LOVE painting with q-tips and had a really good time. As you can see Prissy Lyssy chose to completely cover her Qq.

Here are some letters (that were STILL hanging on the fridge) from the last month.

For the Letter Dd, we used bingo dobbers to make Dots.

For the letter Mm, we made Mice by putting fingerprints on the letter and then drawing on ears and a tail with a pencil.


For the letter Ww, we glued on Wagon Wheel pasta.