Pat-A-Cake Perfection with Mother Goose Time

One day of Mother Goose Time really stood out this week as Bella's favorite so I had to share! Mother Goose Time is the monthly homeschooling kit I use to teach my 3 year old. It comes with projects, activities and supplies for 20 days and SO MUCH MORE! I have posted previously about it on my blog like here .

Today's theme was Pat-A-Cake! Bella is my little baker who loves anything to do with cooking so she absolutely loved today's activities! We started off by reciting Pat-a-Cake since it is one of her favorite Nursery Rhymes.

 

 Bella loved reciting it together and has gotten really good!


Next we played this cute cake game that helped Bella with her number recognition, shape recognition and counting.

She was also able to help me separate the hearts from the cutouts. Little exercises like this have really helped her develop her motor skills in a new way.

Bella would choose a card, announce which number it was and then place that amount of hearts on the cake. She also matched the different sized hearts with their correct sized silhouette on the cake.

 

She was so proud of herself when she filled up the whole cake!

 



The next part of the day is always Bella's favorite: craft time! This Invitation to Create was super cute.

Bella created her own "cupcakes". While the recipe called for Shaving Cream, we went a little outside of the box and used real frosting!

Her favorite part was definitely putting the sprinkles on top!

Oh, and of course trying the frosting and sprinkles for herself!

After her first cupcake she was in the mood to create more cupcakes so we used her manipulatives to create out own cupcakes with Floam.

She even put a "cherry on top"!

I love to watch the creativity she uses during class time.

Lastly, to clean up, I had her string her manipulatives onto her shoe string (included in this month's kit). Her fine motor skills are leaps and bounds above what they were when we started Mother Goose Time! I loved watching her accomplish putting all the Blue on her string! The manipulatives are one of my favorite things included in each box.

 

 I love her concentration and determination! She is so focused during her little projects. I love the things we get to do together every day thanks to Mother Goose Time! I recommend this program to everyone!

 

After months of being a paying customer, I received this month's box for free in exchange for my personal experience!

Easy Toddler Approved Smoothies!

My 3 year old daughter, who used to be the easiest eater in the world, has recently decided to hate every food she used to love! We're talking the good stuff like Yogurt and Cheese. Since she already doesn't like Milk (of course) I was desperate to get some calcium into her body! These smoothies are SO easy and cleanup is just as simple! From start to finish it takes us under 5 minutes.

Do you have a Baby Bullet hidden in the depths of your cabinet? I did! Neither of my daughter's enjoyed baby food so I've literally touched the thing twice since I've owned it. Behold! They make amazing toddler sized shakes!

With two attachments you can go with a traditional blender top, or one that instantly becomes a cup with handles!

I decided to go with my daughter's favorite fruits, but really this is totally customizable! When you use fresh fruit it makes a really smooth shake texture while frozen fruit makes a nice cold smoothie.

Use:

1/2 Banana

1/4 cup Strawberries

1/4 cup Blackberries

1/4 cup Blueberries

1/4 cup Milk

1/4 cup Yogurt (we went with Vanilla Greek Yogurt this time  but a squeezable Yogurt pouch is the perfect amount and delicious as well)

This same recipe works great for the frozen fruit as well. Yes, this Baby Bullet blends the frozen fruit!

I let my daughter help me add the ingredients which she of course enjoys.

We blended the frozen mixture for about a minute. It came out the perfect texture and was definitely delicious!

Of course a fancy Frozen cup and disposable straw make the smoothie much more consumable by toddler standards so that's how we spice it up a bit 😉



**  I am fully aware and sorry these are not professionally posed or photographed smoothies. They are far more delicious than depicted, I promise! I am also aware that I should have purchased organic fruits and photographed a perfect banana but organic frozen fruit wasn't on sale for $2 (I could not pass that up)!  **

JELL-O Creations Review

Quick, Easy & Cheap: JELL-O Creations Kit Review

If you are looking for an easy project to make with your child, this is perfect! I saw this on the shelf at our local Stater Bros and couldn't resist. My toddler LOVES cooking and this looked like something she could easily help make. She had also just learned about worms in her Mother Goose Time lesson so she was very excited!

This is as simple as simple gets guys. All you need is milk and cups!

I used some of my daughters cups that I had handy. It filled up 6 perfectly.



My daughter, who is almost 3, was able to mix the Jello with a little help from me.

We used a spoon to fill the cups (and taste test of course). 

Lastly, she added the Oreo crumb topping and worms!

It was that easy! It took about 15 minutes (prep to cleanup) and was so simple that she could do everything herself. Not to mention, I ate one myself and they were delicious! It actually was quite a bit of food and I could see you being able to fill 12 smaller serving cups that would be more appropriate for younger kids.

This product I would give 5 out of 5 stars! It's DELICIOUS, EASY and CHEAP (under $4)! While it's not something we would eat every day, it was a nice treat to make and share with our friends. I definitely recommend this! They also have a whole collection of different kits. Check them out!