We’ve done this reading activity several times, and it’s very fun, good reading review, and of course best of all, my preschooler loves it and thinks it’s cool!
What you need:
Old bottle caps (I collect plastic milk bottle caps, but you can choose if you prefer bigger or smaller!)
Thin magnetic tape
Sharpie or permanent mar [...]
Bottle cap magnetic board reading act...
We’ve done this reading activity several times, and it’s very fun, good reading review, and of course best of all, my preschooler loves it and thinks it’s cool!
What you need:
Old bottle caps (I collect plastic milk bottle caps, but you can choose if you prefer bigger or smaller!)
Thin magnetic tape
Sharpie or permanent mar [...]
Fine motor skills games for babies an...
I have a nearly 4 year old and a just over 1 year old at home with me. While I’m helping my preschooler with her school and activities, I have to keep my baby occupied and happy too! So I am always looking for things that will keep the baby busy, not cause too much damage, and be a fun learning experience as well!
Recently he has had a [...]
Fun with Sensory Bottles
I’m sure you’ve all heard about sensory bottles, discovery bottles, relax bottles–they’re all over the web and they look so beautiful and are so fascinating for little hands and eyes to explore. Not only are they lovely to look at, there are many games you can play with them and they are great for fine motor skill pra [...]
Easy paper plate sewing
Simple sewing is a very popular Montessori-inspired fine motor skill for children. I’ve found that for most toddlers however, having to go in a set order and not get their string tangled is a somewhat frustrating endeavor often ending in tears. I decided to try making my own and letting my 3 year old sew in any order she liked. It [...]
5 Fun Ways to Teach Patterns to Toddl...
Teaching patterns is a very important math skill for children, as they give them a good foundation for many arithmetic principles later on. Some of the essential building blocks they learn through making and completing patterns are odd and even numbers, skip counting, algebraic concepts, memory skills, and much more.
A child as young as 3 yea [...]
New Year’s Party Ideas for Kids...
Even though we’ve all just finished the big holiday season of the year, something even bigger is just around the corner—you guessed it—New Year’s 2013! We have to have a new year’s party, don’t we? It’s like, tradition!
In our family we like to do something all together that helps make the end of the old year and beginning [...]
Learning activities for toddlers outs...
The weather has been so lovely lately I decided to do a lot of the schooling of my toddler outside in the beautiful fall weather!
Here are some of the outside toddler learning activities we’ve done:
1. Dig and match
I put some uncooked rice in the rice pot, hid the numbers 1-9 in it, and put magnetic numbers 1-9 on a clean cooking tray [...]
Great find–beautiful manipulati...
Hello, dear mommy bloggers and friends far and near,
I have a special post today which I am just dying to share with you! For those of you who have young children, this is a real treat!
Not too long ago I discovered this amazing site dedicated to quality toddler products, including (I just love this part) beautiful manipulatives! I’ve found i [...]
Fun alphabet lapbook with game
We’ve been having lots of fun reviewing the letters my toddler has learned over the past month, and finding new and interesting review activities that a toddler likes is always exciting!
I love lapbooks, and if you research lapbooks, you will find a ton of awesome, fantastic, practically other-worldly ideas! Sometimes I look at them and [...]
Nuts and bolts fine motor skill pract...
My toddler, who is 3 at the time of writing this, is having a hard time with holding her pencil properly, so I’ve been doing a lot of activities that emphasize the use of this fine motor skill.
Here is a simple Montessori inspired fine motor skill activity that reinforces the use of the thumb and forefinger. It’s simple and will c [...]
