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Helpful Music
Help! by The Beatles I Can’t Help It by Michael Jackson // -
Heaven Help Me Eat This
Some days I like to help make dinner. This week I helped make a version of Rachael Ray’s Mighty Migas recipe for dinner one night. I crushed the bag of tortilla chips with a meat tenderizer, which is a lot of fun to whack! And pressed the buttons on the blender to blend the jar [...] -
Every Little Bit Helps
Although shopping is not one of my favorite activities, going to Target for necessary provisions is a helping adventure. This place has the most stuff I’ve ever seen; they have everything you need, and everything you don’t, but still get anyway. I like the parking garage, elevators and escalators, and the shopping carts to ride [...] -
Help Me, Help You
Since accidents happen often in my household, doing the laundry a couple times a week is the norm. I like to help out with this chore. It’s my job to turn the washing dial, pour the soap, and add the clothes. Then I watch the water fill up, and when it’s ready to spin I [...] -
Help Yourself to These Books
Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton is a about a cute little penguin who wants to be the helper for a nice, big hippo. The penguin wants to go everywhere and do everything with the hippo, and be there for him all the time. He keeps pestering the hippo and very nicely asks with a [...] -
I Can’t Help It
Building with blocks Is a playtime activity that rocks. I like building a great big tower, Then knock it down with great power. Only to start all over again, Until it’s time to end. Cleaning up toys is not as fun, I prefer to play and run. Sometimes I whine, But that doesn’t earn me more time. Instead, I politely yelp, usually someone comes to help. And [...] -
Spray Away
A spray bottle is the perfect non-toy toy for summer. I use it to spray the flowers, plants, and trees outside. Sometimes I just spray aimlessly into the air, and get wet when the water lands on me. On a hot day, this non-toy toy is a refreshing way to cool down, but this week [...] -
Going Camera Crazy
My favorite electronic non-toy toy is a camera. DaDa made the mistake of allowing me to take a picture with his camera, because now I’m hooked. Rah-Rah tried buying me a camera that’s made for kids, but I’m not interested. The kids’ version has a tiny screen, but makes funny noises when I press buttons. [...] -
You Can Never Have Too Many Books
Not A Box is my favorite non-toy toy book. It’s about a clever rabbit that thinks of the different ways to play with a box. He pretends it’s a racecar, a mountain, and an elephant. The book even looks like a cardboard box, and the story and pictures are fun. Not A Box is written [...] -
Play With Dough
Following the non-toy toy theme this week, Rah-Rah and decided to make play dough. This stuff is a cross between a toy, and something to eat. I helped measure and mix the flour and salt in one bowl, and the water and food coloring in another. Then Rah and I mixed the wet and dry [...] -
Flashlights Are All Right
Something you should know about me: I love non-toy toys. One of my favorite non-toy toys is the flashlight. I like flashlights so much that I’ve probably exhausted at least eight in my life so far. Flashlights are good for finding lost toys underneath furniture, reading in the dark, and playing games. My favorite flashlight game [...] -
The Noise of Non-Toys
Non-toy toys are the best. Or at least as good as all the rest. I like to Lighten Up with a flashlight, Especially when it’s dark at night. The problem is they are such Energy Suckers, I’m thinkin’ about becoming a battery trucker. A camera is another fun non-toy toy, taking pictures is something I enjoy. Almost as much as some lady [...] -
Stop. Look, and Listen
Both Keys know how to please two of the five senses: Wait Til You See My Smile by Alicia Keys Your Touch by The Black Keys // -
Pretending to Make Sense
Sometimes before or after dinner, I like to play with my little kitchen, hidden away inside the real kitchen cabinets. There’s a washing machine that really moves around and makes swishing noises, an oven and stovetop that lights up when in use, and a sink/dishwasher/refrigerator combo that also sounds like the real deal. I’ve cooked [...] -
Making Sense of The Senses
Using whatever materials we could find at home, Rah and I made a touch book. We used a cotton ball for feeling something soft, sandpaper for rough, tinfoil for smooth, tape with wax paper covering it for sticky, and lentils glued on paper for bumpy. I squeezed the glue on the paper for the materials [...]
