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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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Take 2 - Design-A-Mug: Worst Gift Ever

(Sorry if you saw an unfinished version of this in your rss feed earlier.  This is the finished post.)

From:

I found this cute “Design-A-Mug” kit at Micheal’s and thought it would make a great Father’s Day craft for Sweet Pea.

Materials:

Design-A-Mug kit which contains a mug and several “permanent” markers.

Observations:

I had grand ideas [...]

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Do-A-Dot Letters

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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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Crayola Stampers

Sweet Pea is 34 months old.

From: I saw these Crayola Stampers on sale at Target and thought they would be a lot of fun for Sweet Pea.

Crayola Stampers.
Paper.

Observations: These are supposed to be like markers, but with a fun shape on the tip, so you can stamp a shape instead of drawing a line.   [...]

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Reusable Workbooks / Kumon's My First Book of Tracing

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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Stencils

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: This was inspired by my desire for a set of  Montessori Insets, which are a bit out our price range right now.  (The Montessori Primary Guide has a good description of how to use insets in the Montessori style.)

Material:

Any sort of plastic or metal stencils.  (Most of the craft [...]

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Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: I got the idea for making a life-size portrait from this tot school post on The Shafer Family blog.

Material:

A large sheet of paper at least as long as your tot is tall.  (I suggest using a roll of craft paper or butcher paper, but you could probably just tape [...]

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