60 in one sitting

Yesterday I asked Ruth what she would like for her birthday and she said "maybe a puzzle". I was surprised as she has not been building puzzles much lately. I asked her about it and later when Hannah had room time Ruth got out one of her Winnie the Pooh 60 piece puzzles. The last time she built them she would work on them a little at a time with breaks. Yesterday she just sat and got the whole thing done rather quickly. So perhaps she does need a new puzzle. Unfortunately the Toy Library does not have ones like this (they have mainly board ones for younger children). So perhaps we need to see what we can get for her.
She has two of these Winnie puzzles and got the second one done really quickly today.

Senses part 3

The girls enjoyed the painting they did yesterday and today. The focus again was on different animals and their senses as compared to ours.

They had painted the shapes for the faces yesterday and today they attached the ears, nose and eyes (and I drew on the mouths). We stuck the ears and noses onto Styrofoam pieces so they are at least 1cm higher than the faces - so the effect is lovely (a bit lost on a photo).

Senses part 2

We made ginger bread men (and faces) today and the girls enjoyed adding the senses.

We even made some animals with their appropriate eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Ruth did the bottom left man all by herself as well as the top face and the elephant (bottom left - I just did the dots for the eyes) and one of the pigs.

Senses part 1

Today Ruth and Rachel enjoyed making some new play dough. It was a great time to do this as Ruth has started a study on our senses so she got to use some of her senses as we made it and she could feel how very different it was from the old batch.
I showed her how to make a face with the play dough and this was her creation. As we are focusing on senses we made a tongue instead of just a mouth (in case you were wondering).
Great job Ruth.