This week we decided to get back into our life experience activities. They help me get excited about doing things with the girls and they learn/ enjoy the experiences so much! This week was Construction Week. My girls are fascinated by big trucks and heavy machinery, so I knew this would be a hit!
Activity #1: Build tall towers, etc. with blocks and big trucks. Pretend to run a construction site. My girls do so well with open ended toys like blocks. They are still building and using big trucks to make all sorts of things!
Activity #2: Read books about big trucks and construction. We love books!
Activity #3: Visit a construction site. Sam took the girls out one day. They visited this site and watched them put up a big sign. It was SO HOT that day, so they stayed in the truck and watched.
He said he'd never had so much fun in a home improvement store before! They played with all different kinds of pipes...
Tested out the drills ( I am not recommending that anyone do this, though everyone here is alive!)...
Examined the materials used in construction...
Experimented with more pipes and fittings...
Even used the pipes as a horn!
With all of that hard work those construction workers-in-training worked up an appetite! Where do construction workers eat?! The Golden Corral, of course!
The girls would have given it two thumbs up, but they were too busy eating!
What a fun day! Thanks, Sam!
Activity #5: Paint with big trucks.
We covered the little table with paper, donned our smocks/construction uniforms, splattered some paint and had fun running those trucks all over!
A construction site never looked so beautiful!
C and FL had a great time (me too!) making all sorts of sound effects and getting the paint in as many places as possible!
It looked so fun and colorful at the end of it that I've left the paper on the table for a while. The girls keep adding to it!
Activity #6: Cloud Dough Construction Site.
I spread out an old plastic banner, pulled out our cloud dough bins (just search the internet for a recipie. We used the vegetable oil one so that no harm would come to those who might eat it.) and added some trucks. Voila! An instant construction site! Cloud dough is a mess no matter what you do, but it holds their attention for a very long time! I also added lavendar oil to ours, so it smells wonderful, too!
Activity #7: Big Tools!
This, perhaps, was the pinnacle of the week! My parents set up some activities for the girls to use construction tools and make some blocks. What three year old doesn't want to use big, noisy, grown up tools?
We put on our safety gear...
Watched how the pros do it...
And made some blocks! Woo hoo!
Next we hammered some nails into a block...
Then we put in some screws using a philips head screwdriver.
Construction is hard work!
Now it was time for the big guns! Electric drill! She looks pretty happy, doesn't she?!
Go, Charlotte, go!
FL wasn't so sure, until she saw C's success. They were proud of their work!
Now to put on the finishing touches...
And add some artistic flair at home - we are not just any construction workers, you know. We are construction princesses! We even added glitter once the paint dried! ; )
We thought that was the end of our week, but we took a trip to Chicago, and what did we find?!
Construction! In all of its loud, messy, bright orange glory!
We even got to see a digger dig, dig, dig and dump!
He even waved and tooted the digger's horn at us! The girls were mesmerized!
We've never enjoyed construction more! It was a fantastic week!
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