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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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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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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
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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: I read about this great idea for a Salt Shaker Scuplture at the very informative My Montessori Journey.

Material:

Pony beads contained in a bowl or basket.
5 or 6 pipe cleaners.
An empty spice jars (shaker jar A) or a salt shaker.
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Material:

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