Fall Circles

I had a burst of energy today. Super surprising as with the time change my kiddos have been getting up at 5 and 6 instead of 6 and 7. None the less the energy was there and I knew the best thing to use it towards was Titus.

We are in a hard stage where he pushes the boundaries A LOT and gets told "No" A TON. I'm excited that he's strong willed and a leader (man that kid is bossy!) and I'm trying to learn how to nurture those characteristics and it's hard, dang it!

Titus enjoys a good craft here or there and usually I am lazy and just give him paper and crayons. But thanks to blogs like Intentional Homeschool (Intentional Toddler Time- this is the place to find the older blog posts but now LeighAnn and Nikki use Intentional Homeschool) I have gotten a lot of ideas on easy things that I could and should be doing with Titus.

So today I decided that I would branch out a little and go beyond just crayons and paper. I picked up construction paper from the store the other day and we busted that thing open! I gave Titus a piece of paper to color on first, because of course I'm flying by the seat of my pants and said something about a fun craft before having said craft supplies ready. So he colored while I traced and cut out circles. I was going to use more colors but I figured we would stick to fall colors today. I traced circles from both ends of a cup to give him different sizes. He noticed the size difference without me saying anything (GO TI!) because I forgot to mention that detail. I can't even remember if I talked about the shape itself. Oh well I'm learning here. He knew they were circles so it wasn't a fail.

Here's how it turned out!

NOTE: I need glue sticks so he can glue himself. Part way through there was a melt down because I'm a mean mommy and wouldn't let him have the glue. :o)