First 100 piece done

Yesterday Ruth got Rachel's fairy puzzle book out and got a 48 piece done really quickly. It's probably a bit more difficult than her 60 piece Winnie puzzles as the colours are more subtle.

So when we visited the toy library today I hunted out any bigger puzzles and found this 100 piece one. She diligently sat and worked on it until it was done.

And then wanted to take a photo of it - herself.

Good job Ruth.

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.

Autumn painting

I know I need to give the girls more opportunities to paint so I got some paints out today and tried (yes they are not that great) to draw some leaves and things for Ruth to paint. I got the ideas from her one Autumn game.

So although my drawing is not wonderful I was so impressed with Ruth's painting. I really must give her regular painting time.

Well done Ruth.

Pattern fun

Ruth has so enjoyed this simple puzzle. Here she is putting the pieces into the original pattern.

Here are some of the many designs we all came up with. Often just trying to get all the pieces back in - in a different way than before. Or just for a pretty pattern. It's funny that I don't have a photo of the way the puzzle came - with big blue around the outside of the square and then working in to the yellow middle (similar to the middle left picture - bottom half).