There’s no photo of the art box this week. I had *someone* standing beside me waiting, not-very-patiently, for me to fill it up. It had all the usual stuff, plus some little sparkly gel pens from Target’s dollar spot, and a rock.
The rock was the cause of all the excitement surrounding the filling of the art box. He found this rock last summer and gave it to me (I know, I’m a lucky girl!), and it’s been sitting on the kitchen windowsill ever since. Someone (if it was your child, let me know!) made some pet rocks for The Art Box not long ago, and it looked like a lot of fun. M definitely agreed. 
Then he made a pretty picture with his gel pens. You can’t see it very well here, but it’s very sparkly. And we discovered that each one smells like a fruit! The yummiest is the purple – it smells like grapes. :)
He painted a picture for Daddy: 
One for Mommy that was made with his little spiky balls from Walmart:
And one for “all of us” (including M):
We are still enjoying the art box, although some weeks are more interesting than others. I find that if we have a slow week where he’s not feeling artsy, the following week he more than makes up for it.
If your child did any self-directed art, link it up below! I love seeing all their creations, and all the great supply ideas you moms come up with!
Have a beautiful day! :)
M just loves cutting pages, so I created some quick shape ones for him. He cuts out the shapes then finds the same sized “blank” spot on the second page. To add a bit of excitement this time I had him use tape instead of a glue stick. He LOVED it! He definitely needs more practice with the tape, so we’ll be doing more of these!
A backpack of lacing buttons, animal shapes, spools, and little discs, from our toy lending library (still loving that we have one of these!).
Playing in the jump-o-lene with cousin S. Do you like his cheesy smile?
A great find at Dollar Tree – a target game with sticky balls so we can work on our aim.
A huge foam USA map mat (the kind that has foam squares that lock together). He stands on Minnesota and jumps to Florida a lot because that’s where Grandma and Grandpa currently are. :)
I set up M’s ABC train cards in the pocket chart, leaving a few out. We went through the ABCs until we came to a blank spot. Then he decided which letter was missing and found it in the pile on the floor. He did great with this, and it was fun to switch the game up a little bit from what we normally do!
The sensory bin has been full of very hard and very soft things. You can mainly see the soft things in the picture – cotton balls and pom poms. There are also small and large glass pebbles, glass marbles, and some plastic crystals, along with a scoop and a couple of small containers. 
