Little Green (and red) "men"

Last week we stopped by one of our local elementary schools to visit Grandma Cathy. Teachers had put a huge "discard" pile of books and stuff out so we felt free to rifle through it. Besides a big box of books we also brought home these little "men". They aren't really men, I think that the green are dinosaurs and the red hippos. But Etta has already enjoyed using them. Am hoping to think of creative counting, matching, pattern etc. activities that we can do - along with just playing of course!

Helping mommy with the pattern and creating her own. She may be a *little* OCD like I am...



Putting them all in the bus "to go [back] to school"!