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It's Dino Dig Day!  I got the idea on my first dollar store trip in 3 months! I had a double sided list and my cart was full but my one impulse buy (that wasn't chocolate) was a dinosaur bone sand toy set. On Fridays I like to do a theme of some sort to make things interesting and I was inspired by that dinosaur sand toy set.  This was my set up for our Dino Dig: some plastic dinosaurs, plastic shovels and rakes and a big book of dinosaurs. Our theme day had two activities, a dino dig and making fossils. Later in the day we painted the fossils and had another dino dig outside. Dino fossils Salt dough: 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 1 cup water Mix the flour and salt Slowly add the water, 2 tbsp at a time Kneed the dough, set aside until needed Line 2 baking sheets with parchment as paper Separate the dough equally amongst the kids. Roll small portions of the dough into balls. Use the plastic dinosaurs figurines to make impressions of the di...

This week's theme day was...surprise, surprise...Frozen. During this quarantine we have watched Frozen, Frozen II and Olaf's Frozen Adventure more times than I care to count. So far, all of our themes have been geared towards Little Man so this one was all about Little Miss but it was fun for everyone. Oops Elsa froze her friends. Anna, Olaf, Christof, Sven, and the water Nook were trapped in an ice block. It's up to you to same them! We did a version of this activity years ago with super heroes . It fits in perfect with the Frozen theme and It's a great activity on a hot day.  Freeze plastic characters in a large plastic container full of water the night before. Using plastic tools let the kids chip away at the ice block.  An Elsa, Anna and Olaf craft. Create your very own Anna, Elsa and Olaf with toilet paper rolls. Cover the rolls with blue, pink and white construction paper. Cut out accessories for each character, ...