Monster Play Date

A couple of weekends ago, we had a family get together!  My sister’s kiddos and my kiddos are very close in age, so of course, I couldn’t resist the urge to come up with a fun play date full of treats & activities!  I found the cutest book, Tickle Monster by Josie Bissett that I centered my activities and treats around!

We started out our play date by reading this oh so cute book!  The kids LOVED it….especially all the tickling!!!

Watch out for the Tickle Monster…..

(I wore a glove on my tickling hand to make it seem more like the fuzzy monster from the book)

After we read the book, we headed to the kitchen table for some fun….

The Tickle Monster’s body in the book is rainbow colored, so I found the cutest printables here, Skittles Sorting Mats.  The kids had so much fun eating and sorting their skittles {{notice I said eating first}}  (:

All Done!

To get the wiggles out, we headed to the living room for some Rainbow Musical Dots.  They had so much fun running from dot to dot.  As soon as the music stopped, they each raced to stand on the closest dot.  Each time the music stopped, I took a dot away {{I started out with lots of dots…since our kiddos are little}}.  The winner was the kiddo who made it onto the last dot, first.  They had so much fun…although not being able to stand on the last dot is a hard concept for a 2 year old! (;

They could have played this game all day…but of course there was another craft project!

We gathered back around the kitchen table to make Fruit Loop necklaces!  The kids had so much fun stringing & eating their fruit loops.  I might have eaten a few as well! (;

For snack, we had Rainbow Graham Crackers!

They were so easy.  I spread vanilla frosting on graham crackers and then sprinkled sprinkles on the frosting to look like a rainbow.

It was so much fun to put together this play date for my kids & my sister’s kids!  We only wish we lived close enough that we could do this more often!