Whether it's the "Wow, you've got your hands full" or "Gee, I wish I had that much energy" to the "Boys are just different" comments I get daily, it's a no brainer that my son isn't a kid who will sit nicely, listen to a story or lesson and go along with your instruction if that's all that there is to do in his day. So, after a morning of hard-core playgrounding (including a beautiful, free kids park with water features and wonderful learning spots), I decided to try the Clothes Pin Matching Game with him while my toddler napped.
Total success. He loved it and we went through both sets of letters. I need to finish another box of cereal to free up some cardboard for the pictures & letter matching though I have it printed, cut and ready to go. I printed the circles on cardstock and then used basic cardboard from a cereal box to make them a bit more sturdy. He loved the chance to talk about the big and little letters but also the motor skills practice of using a clothes pin.
And yesterday, we visited story & craft time at Barnes & Noble. We read "Watch Out Little Wombat
" which was very cute. Then, made paper bag puppets. The kids loved it! You'd need brown paper bags, construction paper for ears, arms & tails (if you make the crocodile, both of my kids made wombats), foam pieces for eyes (or googly eyes, buttons, whatever), glue sticks & crayons for decorating. 
