play for a toddler {day 1}

Well here it is.  Day 1.  I already feel better about our time together.  Our first structured activity was to go to the park.  Uh duh!  Why don't we go to the park more often?  Since he will start going outside on the playground at day care this next week, I worked with him on walking on his own on the bark and going up and down from the sidewalk to mulch.  We spent most of the time just playing, but it was so nice to kind of have a goal for our play time.

the park is always more fun with friends

thanks melissa for taking such a cute pic of my kid

Our busy box activity was a button snake.  They're all over the web and super easy to make.  I took a piece of ribbon and sewed a big button on the end.  On the other end I sewed a square of felt as a stopper.  Then I cut a bunch of square pieces of different color felt and cut a slit in the middle as big as the button.

The goal is to thread the squares onto the ribbon.  Hudson loved it.  He can't quite put the squares over the button, but loved taking them off and moving them on the ribbon.