Easy Valentine's (or not) activity for your toddler!

We woke up to straight up ice everywhere this morning.  All the schools are closed so even if I hadn't taken Blakely out of MDO this week she wouldn't be able to go today.  Juanet usually comes to clean on Tuesdays but the roads are bad so she's not coming either.

So me and B are stuck in the house again.  I wanted to come up with a fun way to entertain her.  I saw this idea on a blog (I can't remember where!) a while ago and it came to my mind this morning.  A super easy and not too messy toddler activity!  

As you all may know I have a craft closet and am somewhat of a craft supplies hoarder.  I had some leftover foam (I have no idea from what) so I cut out a bunch of different sized hearts.  I had heart cookie cutters so I pressed them into the foam and then cut on the indented line.  Very easy and it took me all of 10 minutes to cut these hearts out.  Honestly, I don't think you even need the the cookie cutters...  You can buy a large package of different color foam at your local craft store for pretty darn cheap.  (Hob Lob online sells this package for $6.  For comparison, I used 6 sheets to cut out all of these hearts.  If you don't want to cut stuff out they sell foam cut outs for a little more money)

Anyway.  I put a little bit of water in a sturdy bowl and laid some towels down just in case.  You really don't need that much water.  I only used enough to cover the bottom of this bowl.    

First dip the foam heart in the water.  

Then it will stick to the window.  Blakely was obviously amazed.  

She played with these for over an hour.  Unheard of.  Once they were all on the window she took them off, dried them on the towels and started over.  Then she put them all in the bowl and told me that they were swimming.  

I dried them off when we were finished playing and I think we will play with them again later in the bubble bath.  The foam doesn't really get that wet, it sort of repels the water so they dry out really easily.  Although if we play with them in the bath I will probably throw them out after that.  

I am already planning the next time I do this activity with her.  I am going to cut out different sized shapes and have her match them up and count them.  I have a lot of foam ;)