Now that we have satellite, Mikayla watches a couple of cartoons. One of them that she loves is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She actually has little Mickey and Friends characters that she plays with daily. They are even regularly part of our bath time routine. If you are unfamiliar with the show, there are couple of key phrases. Like: "Super Cheers", "If you’ve got ears, say cheers" and "Oh Toodles". Mikayla will regularly repeat these and act out scenarios from the show. She will also spend a lot of time during the day asking me what she should do. So I decided to create her an activity choice board, and what better way than to incorporate Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
In the show there is a machine that appears when the characters say "Oh Toodles". And on Toodles are four objects that will help them in their journey or activity. Once they choose one to use, they say "If you’ve got ears, say cheers"! And then once they are all used they say, "Super Cheers". So I decided to make Mikayla a Toodles board with four choices of activities. Next time when she asks me what she should do, I will call "Oh Toodles" and let her decide!
To create all I did was cut a piece of cardboard out in the shape of Mickey Mouse. Then I took some scraps of felt I had on hand and hot glued them on. I took the rest of my cardboard and cut into squares and then drew on pictures of activities she could do (I am not an artist, so no fair making fun of my drawings). I then put Velcro on the back and voila you have a Toodles Activity Choice board! (The extra activities were placed in a bag and stapled on the back of Toodles).
The bag is filled with additional choices that we will rotate into the board.
Exploring Toodles for the first time. I think she likes it and is excited about it! She held onto him for the whole time she watched cartoons this morning!
Tags: mickey mouse, Mikayla
You are so crafty and creative!
You are so crafty and creative!!
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