Ice-cream Shop - Money Practice

We quickly put together this box for Ice-cream shop play the other day. We used pom-poms for ice-cream, rainbow rice for sprinkles and red and blue stones for cherries and blueberries. We added some cups, spoons and scoops from our play kitchen. The shop was open after we created one menu each and added a cash box and money to the mix! In the drawstring back we have some coins and the little box is our cash box.

I created this menu:

D made this menu...

Her price list basically says that 2 scoops of ice-cream is 3 cents, sprinkles are 5 cents, blue berry topping  - 6 cents and a cherry was 7 cents!

It was a lot of fun playing ice-cream shop and I loved sneaking in the money lesson with this!  I think D loved the fact that she could add sprinkles to her ice-creams!

Spring and Flowers at our kingdom

Made my first batch of play-doh dirt using the recipe here.  Added some rocks, pots, buckets, tools and colorful flowers for hours of fun!

Officer D!

This month we've been reading books included in the "community helpers" kit from our library.  D is obsessed with this book:
















Without any initiation on my part, she built a radio and gun from her trio blocks, used her belt, flute (as baton), toy keys and became "Officer D!".  This is huge because this is the first time she has built meaningful stuff with her blocks.  Check her out!

Items on her belt (L to R): Gun, Radio, Baton and her car keys!  This kept her entertained today for a couple of hours.  Love imaginative play!