Visit a Local Park

Matteson has many playgrounds for your little one to play at. Call a friend, pack a picnic lunch and most importantly-have fun!

Visit www.villageofmatteson.org/sections/parkdirections/index.php for a map and directions to each of the parks. 

Breakfast Biscuits Recipe

Sunny Breakfast Biscuits

Ingredients:
- 1 package biscuits
- Marmalade (orange or any other flavor)

Directions:1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2. Open up the tube of biscuits and separate them.  Place biscuits on an ungreased cookie sheet. Form each biscuit into a threeinch circle and make them into a sun shape by using a knife to carve the sun's rays into each biscuit.

3. Use your thumb to press a hole into the middle of each biscuit. (The little ones would love to help with this part!)

4. Take 1/2 teaspoon of the marmalade and drop it into the hole you made in each biscuit. (They can help here, too!)

5. Place the biscuits in the oven and bake for 6-8 minutes, or until they turn are golden brown. The Sunny Biscuits are best served warm.

Idea Courtesy of: BabyandToddlerRecipes.com

Mother's Day Books

Mother’s Day is coming this Sunday, May 13^th! Come to the library and check out some of these Mother’s Day books that are great to read together with your toddler!

Mother’s Day by Anne Rockwell
Mother, Mother I Want Another! By Maria Pulushkin Robbins
My Mother is Mine by Marion Dane Bauer
My Mom by Anthony Browne
Mommies Say Shhh! by Patricia Polacco
The Mommy Book by Todd Parr
Mama Mama by Jean Marzollo

Rainy Day Play

Rainy days got you down and out of ideas to keep your little one busy? Take out the pots and pans. Below, you will find a link to some great uses for pots and pans during playtime; courtesy of Preschool Express. How fun!

Check out: http://www.preschoolexpress.com/toddler_station05/toddler_station_jan05.shtml

Have a (felt) pizza party!

Time to make a pizza, of felt, of course! Use colored pieces of felt and create your own pizza, while reviewing colors, shapes, and food names. To start, take a yellow (crust) piece of felt and cut it into a circle about 8 inches in diameter. Then take a red piece and cut it into a circle about 6 inches in diameter. Now take that red circle and cut it in half then cut the halves into 3 wedges each (like pizza slices).

Now you can take your other colored pieces of felt to create the toppings:

- Black for olives (cut into little pieces, squares)
- Green for green peppers, or broccoli (triangles)
- White for cheese (strips, or small rectangles)
- Dark red for pepperoni (small circles)
- Brown for either sausage or mushrooms (squares)

After creating all the ingredients let your toddler put the pizza together. First lay down the Yellow big circle, then add the slices of red felt on top and the add all the toppings as you please! You can do this again and again and keep making all sorts of different pizzas. One for you, for mom, for dad, for little brother, big brother and so on!

Supplies Needed-Felt of different colors
-Scissors