The Life of Max: April 2012

Hooray! Callum's had a week off work and we've had a lovely time with him both in the house and out and about. The weather's been mostly horrid so it's been largely at home, but Max LOVES home so it's worked out well.
Here we are! :)

This was a pincer grip activity: tissue paper collage. He seemed to really enjoy this one, placing the pieces one by one of sprinkling on.

Callum & mini Callum

Colour matching in sequence with coloured magnets - he's very good at this

Painting on wax-resist pictures

These were taken at Granny & Grandad's house where Max made up this pretend to be asleep and wake each other up game! Cute! He said 'shhh' when he was pretending to be asleep. I copied him for once! :)

Gorgeous in the bath

This is another activity for hand eye co-ordination; matching counters to make a picture. We're also going to do some tracing when I find the little dry wipe markers! (Where are they damn it?!)

Cally showing Max colour mixing on paper plates using a magnet and metal ring. He didn't really get this one to begin with

Daddy geeking out :)

A delightful game of pretend to be Street Fighter characters - this is a game for Daddy and Max ONLY as it involves playful slaps and punches! So far Max understands it's only for Daddy - we'll see what the future holds...

April has been a month of Easter holidays and getting a bit crafty! I've been checking out some teaching resources and craft blogs for some ideas to get Max to practise some skills he'll need for school and life. We've had lots of fun doing it so far and much more to come I hope!

Here is a picture of a couple of bits we've been doing.
I cut out snowflakes and Max played with those. I made some paper sensory-feely paper bundles. I made a couple of paper planes which were very good for engaging Max in some simple talking practise, repeating 'steady-go' and 'paper plane'. (Paper plane sounds mostly like 'pay pay pay' at the moment but we're working on it!) The last thing is the colour wonder in the middle, for which I cut out some random felt shapes and gave them to Max who placed them all in colour zones on the page. I thought it was gorgeous. :)

Here is the little beauty himself, smiling beautifully for me while on a walk in Shepherd Meadows this week.

Feeding the ducks, and saying 'tear' each time he tore a bit of bread from the slice. :)

This was a sensory play activity I tried and Max really enjoys. We dyed some rice red, green, blue and yellow, and put them into tubs. He just played at scrunching it in his hands and letting it fall then pushed around with his fingers before muddling the colours up to make multi-coloured rice tubs. All very fun and kept us busy for nearly half an hour solid - which is impressive for him and crafty things!

Daddy :)

Max completing one of his many jigsaws. This one is a puny 35 piecer, but we're onto 50, 60 and even a 100 piece puzzle now.

Max and me in our garden on a gorgeous sunny day

One of Max's favourite things to do in the sun at the moment is to be dragged around in his sledge. We didn't get to use it in the Winter when it snowed as it didn't get deep enough around here. I had a go...

...but Daddy was much faster and therefore more fun!

When he sees me with the camera in front of him he usually says 'cheese' and pulls a grin

Building a tower out of wood blocks. We've had lots of fun with those too. (See next blog post.)

Playing with his very favourite Toy Story figures. He likes to present Callum or me with one of the characters for us to pretend to be them and say a little catch-phrase and do an action. He laughs and laughs!