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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: 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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Sweet Pea is 33 months old.

From: These are cards I developed to be used with milk cap numbers.  (I promise this is the last one of these number cap activities for a while!)

Material:

Milk cap numbers 1 through 4 (Instructions and templates located here).
MCN Fish 1-4
MCN Dogs 1-4
MCN Cats1-4
MCN Butterfly 1-4
MCN Bunnies 1-4
MCN Birds 1-4
MCN Snails [...]

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Sweet Pea is 33 months old.

From: After creating the milk cap numbers, this was the first activity I devised to go with them.  We did not have a whole lot of luck with these worksheets, but I wanted to post them because I thought that they might be useful for other tots.

Material:

Milk cap numbers 1 [...]

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Sweet Pea is 32 months old.

From: Someone commented on my Milk Cap Letter page and asked for me to make a Milk Cap Number template.  I made up the Milk Cap Numbers, but then struggled with how I would use them until I came up with the idea for the worksheets listed below.

Materials:

Several milk caps.
Mod [...]

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Sweet Pea is 30 months old.

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Sweet Pea is 29 months old.

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Sweet Pea is 25 months.

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Sweet Pea is 23 months old.

A few weeks ago I wandered into The Supply Closet (a teacher supply store) and found some counting bears that I had read about on 1+1+1=1 .   The bears I bought were actually a little different and more expensive than the ones Carissa recommended because there are more bears and [...]

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