Jan/Feb Playdates

Adley and I continue to enjoy our themed playdates with friends. We met in January and did some penguin activities. I didn't capture very many photos since I was hosting the playdate, but I grabbed a few at the end. In addition to these below activities, the kids went on a hunt for hidden fish throughout our house and waddled to various "icebergs" while singing a song about penguins. We ate these silly chocolate-banana penguins for snack. They didn't look quite as cute as the Pinterest version but thankfully still bore some resemblance to penguins!

We ended by reading a book together about Tacky the Penguin (by Helen Lester) and then created our own crazy outfits for Tacky with playdough. The kids definitely enjoyed this playdough activity and stayed at the table creating for a looong time!

Another day in January, we met at a local church to try out their large, 2-story indoor playscape that's free and open to the community. It was pretty impressive! As we arrived, we were quite surprised to find a couple piles of SNOW on the ground! It was definitely not chilly enough for snow that day in Texas, so we figured the church must've had some kind of event with large snow piles the night before. We never figured out what the snow was from, but the kiddos sure enjoyed the unexpected opportunity to play on snow!! 

In February, my friend Amy planned and hosted a Valentine's Day playdate. The kiddos started off by decorating white bags that they could use to collect valentines. One of the kids asked her mom to trace her hand on her bag, and a trend was born! Nearly all of the kids asked to do the same thing. :)

After the bags were all decorated, the kids delivered valentines to each other's bags.

One of our new little friends wasn't very excited about taking the Valentine's Day photo with the group-- ha!! All the little ones looked so cute in their valentine colors.

The kids were thrilled to open up their bags and find candy and toys, in addition to the valentine cards, inside! 

This noisemaker was an instant hit! My friend said she found them at the store and was "sorry, not sorry" for buying them!

We ended the playdate with a fun numbers game. Each of the kids got a Cupid's arrow and tossed it towards the numbered paper plates. When retrieving their arrow, the kids had to tell us which number plate it landed on.

We always love these special times with friends!