Sweet Pea is 34 months old.
From: We have had great luck with Kumon’s “My First” series of books, so I decided to order Kumon’s My First Book of Cutting from Amazon.
Prerequisite: If your tot hasn’t worked with scissors before, I suggest you try the Introduction to Scissors – Cutting Play-doh activity first.
Material:
Kumon’s [...]
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Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: Our good friends gave Sweet Pea this Melissa & Doug Shape, Model and Mold Clay Set for Christmas.
Observations: The set comes with 4 different colors of dough and several wooden tools for rolling, cutting and stamping it. Sweet Pea really loves everything about this kit and has played [...]
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Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: I can’t remember where I saw these first, but I ordered some from the Oriental Trading Company several months ago.
Material:
Pegs and a Peg Board (FYI: I am currently running a giveaway for some of our extra ones here.)
Observations: I tried to show these to Sweet Pea several months [...]
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Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
Sweet Pea has been asking for a bike ever since she saw her Grandpa riding one last summer. When we asked her what she wanted for Christmas, she begged for a “blue bike! blue bike!”, so Santa (Thank You Aunt Jackie!) brought Sweet Pea a balance bike for Christmas. [...]
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Sweet Pea is 30 months old.
From: When I was younger, I was crazy about Zoobooks, which is a high quality children’s magazine about animals. I thought I might subscribe, and happily discovered that the Zoobooks company now makes a magazine for younger kids called Zootles and one for toddlers called Zoobies. Our library carries [...]
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Sweet Pea is 30 months old.
Sweet Pea demonstrates Downward Facing Dog.
From: Sweet Pea really likes joining me for WiiFit Yoga so when I read about a Yoga Kids dvd on The Adventures of Bear blog, I immediately ordered it from our library.
Material:
Yoga Kids dvd.
dvd player.
Procedure:
Figure out how to work your dvd player. [...]
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Sweet Pea is 29 months old.
From: I had a comment from Barkey’s Mommy on my Kumon Let’s Color post recommending something like this. I also saw this entry describing how to create re-usable workbooks at Teaching My Little Bookworm.
Material:
Kumon My First Book of Tracing (or any other appropriate workbook).
3-Ring binder.
Several sheet protectors.
Non-toxic dry erase markers.
Scrap [...]
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Sweet Pea is 28 months old.
Material:
Kumon Let’s Fold (I found ours at Target.)
Procedure:
The book contains instructions for demonstrating how to fold each of the pages.
Observations: We have had this book for a couple of months and Sweet Pea struggled with it for a long time. She enjoyed the pictures and wanted to fold the pages, but just did not have [...]
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Sweet Pea is 27 months old.
From: We bought this Melissa & Doug Cutting Food Box at a local toy store.
Observations: This set contains a wooden knife and cutting board, along with several painted wooden food items. Each piece of food is composed of several sections that are held together with Velcro. [...]
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Sweet Pea is 26 months old.
From: I have been looking for some good puzzles / toys for Sweet Pea and I just loved this fun Melissa & Doug Bear Family Dress Up Puzzle that I saw at The Learning Tree.
Observations: There are 3 bears and 5 different puzzle pieces for each of 3 spots on [...]
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