Keeping Elisey smartypants busy is sometimes a daunting task. She gets into everything and if she's bored she can get very naughty. Very naughty.
Aside from reading tons of books, making art projects, watching occasional TV, building with blocks, putting together puzzles, and playing kiddie video games, here are a few of the activities I've engaged Elise with lately:
* Treasure Hunt: Elise had to earn the fruit for her lunch the other day by following a series of clues. The clues were age-appropriate, such as, "Go to the place where Henry sleeps. Look under his pillow." Each clue lead her to the location where I had hidden the next card with a clue on it, until at last she discovered the fruit stashed in the cargo pocket of my shorts.
* Necklace: Elise threaded some of Georgia's hair beads onto a string to make a necklace.
* Animal Science Notebook: Inspired by the TV show Go Diego Go!, we started a notebook with pictures and facts about animals that we've seen in the wild. First we take a picture of the animal and then we have the picture printed. We look up facts about the animal and write some of them down, such as where the animal lives and what it eats. Elise and I then put the picture and the facts on a page in her notebook. The first animal, for example, was a white-tailed deer that we saw on a recent vacation. Among the facts that we wrote down were that it has a white underside to its tail, it eats grass, and its afraid of wolves.
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