homeschool – Page 4 – Domestic Goddess Tonni

Sandpaper Shirt Printing

Posted on October 5, 2013November 8, 2013 by domesticgoddess

I got this idea from my friend Gabbi. You will need:
1. Sandpaper
2. Crayons
3. Shirt
4. Iron
5. Cardboard
6. Newspaper

Step one.
Use the crayons to draw on the sandpaper.
I provided Caleb with different coloring materials and let him choose which one was the best to use on the rough paper. Here, he’s testing out the coloring materials.

CALEB: This one! I like this!

Caleb enjoyed drawing on the rough paper.

It’s easy to trace on!
Caleb traced his name.

He even learned to draw a sun.

Ready for the next step!

Step 2.
Put the cardboard under the shirt. Position it so the sandpaper that will be ironed on to it will fit on top.

Step 3.
Put the sandpaper facedown on the shirt.

Step 4.
Put the newspaper ( I just used a sheet) on top of the sandpaper and iron using medium to medium high setting. This takes less than a minute to do.

Step 5.
Remove and see the print on the shirt.

Maybe we should’ve mirrored the letters. Hahaha! 😝
Caleb wanted to do another one. So we used the same sandpaper and drew on it again.

Tada! All done!

Sticker Sets

Posted on October 3, 2013November 8, 2013 by domesticgoddess

Using stickers to make sets.
Just another fun way to count.

Caleb kept on telling me that the number 1 was missing. Maybe I should’ve made the numerals 1-3. Thought that would be too easy. Oh well!

This took some time to finish since Caleb would lose count while taking the sticker out of its plastic liner. No complaints from me! That just meant more counting practice for him. He would recount every after he puts a sticker on the paper to make sure that the numeral and the number of stickers matched.

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Long and Short

Posted on October 2, 2013November 8, 2013 by domesticgoddess

Caleb wanted to do some “studying” but I wasn’t able to prepare for homeschool since we just got back from holiday and I was still on holiday mode. Anyway, here is our instant homeschool activity! Grouping and comparing long and short straws.
I cut the straws and Caleb sorted them by length and stuck them on play doh.

Inspecting the straws.

Hard at work.

All done!

Caleb did this activity quite fast and wanted to do more! I guess he really missed our study time. So I gave him some popsicle sticks to sort.

He described the sticks as fat and thin.

When Caleb was done, he still wanted to do some more so I challenged him to use the sticks to make a cage for his dinosaur. This took some time for him to figure out and had some help from me 😉

He was happy with his creation.