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Today’s Operation Playtime activity comes from Amy at Let’s Explore. She suggested a painting activity using kitchen gadgets and utensils as paintbrushes. Sammi is ALWAYS ready to paint so I thought this would be fantastic. And it was!

I put butcher paper over the table so we could be messy and then I put the kitchen gadgets in the middle of the table. Sammi climbed right up, grabbed the whisk and announced she’d use “this” to paint with. I didn’t really remember telling her yet that we were going to paint! But I guess all the signs were there.
I put out three colors: red, blue and yellow. I added a little water to thin them out so they’d last longer and it’d be easier to coat the utensils with. But I think I added to much water because we mostly got blobs of paint at the beginning. But once we got going we developed some technique and enjoyed the project very much.

Our marathon of books actually began on Day 1 of Operation Playtime (Blocks). Sammi built a house for her baby (almost) then decided she needed a nap. To help her fall asleep, Sammi pulled out a book to read to her. The rest, as they say, is history! We’ve read every book on every book shelf!

Sammi’s favorites include Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha and Nobunny’s Perfect by Anna Dewdney. We’ve read to each other, to the baby, and to all her baby dolls.

Each book is usually interrupted for an impromptu song which may or may not match the theme of the book! (Usually not) We’ve sung “Once there was a snowman,” “Itsy bitsy spider,” “Ring around the rosies,” and “If you’re happy and you know it,” to name a few.

It’s been fun to focus on books again over the last few days. We had been so busy with the holidays that our reading had been limited to bedtime and we were missing out on a lot of our classics. Thanks for a nudge, Melitsa, in the book reading direction, even if it did inadvertently come from Tuesday’s post.