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Scratch-and-Sniff Painting

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Sweet Pea is 40 months old.

From: I found this at The Picky Apple and another version (featured on the fabulous Crafty Crow website) at Paint Cut Paste .

Material:

3 or 4 packets of Kool-Aid in different colors.
Small bowls.
Paint brush.
Paper.
Kid’s craft paint in colors that correspond to the Kool-Aid.
Paper plate.

Procedure:

Pour a small amount of craft [...]

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Giant Connect-the-Dots

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Sweet Pea is 39 months old.

From: I found this fast and fun idea at What Do We Do All Day?

Material:

Large sheet of paper.  (We used a big roll of butcher paper from Sam’s Club.)
Washable markers.

Procedure:

Make sure you are on a hard washable surface.  Vinyl is good.  Carpet is bad. 
Draw about 10 [...]

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Sweet Pea is 39 months old.

From: I was inspired by this penny drop game at Tired, Need Sleep.

Material:

10 Muffin tin liners, coffee filters or paper circles.
2 Crayons.
10 Pennies.

Procedure:

Let your tot color half of the circles one color while you color the remaining ones a different color.

Place all of the circles on the floor.
Stand up [...]

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Sweet Pea is 38 months old.

From: A couple of months ago, we tried to make our own rubbing plates out of hot glue and cardboard, but they did not work very well.  When I saw a set of Roylco ready-made rubbing plates at Hobby Lobby, I thought we would give them a [...]

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Sticker Number Line

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Sweet Pea is 38 months old.

From: This really fast activity is from Life with My Giggly Girls, who originally got it from No Time For Flashcards.

Material:

Stickers.
Sheet of paper.
Marker.

Procedure:

Fold the paper into 3-10 sections, depending on your tot’s counting ability.

Unfold the paper and draw a line along each of the folds to create several [...]

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The Category Game

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Sweet Pea is 37 months old.

From: My parents used to play this super quick and easy game with me.

Materials:

At least 2 willing players.

Procedure:

Ask your tot if they would like to learn how to play ” The Category Game”.
When your tot agrees, say, “I am going to come up with a category and then [...]

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Sweet Pea is 36 months old.

From: I saw this in a bunch of places (The Shafer Family, The Adventures of Bear, and My Montessori Journey) and really wanted to do it, but it took me a while to find the non-skid suction mats.

Material:

1 Mini non-skid bathtub suction mat. (I had a terrible time finding these, [...]

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Sweet Pea is 36 months old.

From: The Activity Mom did this quick letter matching activity, which I think originally came from Crunchy and Green.

Material:

Alphabet stickers.  (You can get these almost anywhere.  We found ours at Target.)
Letter matching worksheets.  (Start with the partial alphabets worksheets on the top row and only use the complete alphabet if [...]

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Sweet Pea is 35 months old.

From: Erika from Confessions of a Homeschooler often posts an individual Do-A-Dot letter worksheet when her tot is learning a particular letter (P for example), but I had trouble searching her site to find all of the letters.  I also searched the web, but was surprised that I couldn’t find [...]

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Sweet Pea is 35 months old.

From: I am not sure where I first saw this idea, but This Little Project posted about a letter matching egg game and Crunchy and Green also posted about it, along with some other good ideas for plastic eggs.

Material:

26 Plastic eggs.
Permanent marker.
2 Baskets or bowls.
Egg carton.

Procedure:

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