Social distancing day 19: Easter counting loops

We have done counting loops a couple of times.  I was reminded of what a good idea this is from one of Wren's classmates at school.  Wren has been obsessing about Easter, which is funny since we aren't religious and we really don't do all that much for Easter so I have no idea why she has been so excited about it.  Anyhow, she asked me for the last time this morning.  I don't think I can answer that question one more time without something inside me breaking.  SO we made counting loops.

We have one loop for each day between now and Easter.  She can open one loop a day after dinner.  When she opens the last loop she knows its Easter Eve and that it will be Easter in the morning.

I drew the lines on the paper for Wren to try and cut out her strips.  I cut Flynt's.  Apparently we don't actually own a good ruler anymore so I used a roof piece from the Lincoln logs, meh, it worked.  I wanted Wren to practice her writing so we picked some good spring/Easter words and I wrote them on Flynt's strips and let Wren write them on hers.  We then added a tiny picture to go with the word (we also get to practice reading the words when we open each strip).

Flynt loves glue sticks so very very very much that he helped glue his strips (and me, and the table, and himself and everything in a 2 foot radius - thank goodness for easy clean glue).  Wren did her gluing all by herself.  I hang these from my dining room light.  It's not like I'm going to have friends over for dinner.

It was a slightly shorter but good project.  We also painted a little on our ornaments for the Easter tree had a dance party, called grandparents and lots of random things today for play.