
Sweet Pea is 39 months old.
From: I found this great post full of ideas for buttons at The Activity Mom.
Material:
A bag of plastic craft buttons. (We got ours from Micheal’s.)
A thin tipped marker
A piece of paper.
Procedure:
Select several different shaped buttons.
Use the marker to draw an outline around each button.
Gather your tot, the selected [...]
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Sweet Pea is 36 months old.
From: I thought these Doodle Rubbings on This Little Project looked really fun.
Material:
Pencil.
Hot Glue Gun & Glue Sticks.
Several pieces of cardboard. (I just cut up an old Pampers box.)
Paper.
Crayons.
Tape.
Procedure:
Use a pencil to lightly draw shapes (square, heart, circle, etc) on the cardboard.
Draw over the shapes with a hot [...]
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Sweet Pea is 34 months old. (Oh, I groan every time I have to increment this. How bittersweet.)
From: I found this idea on the very useful Confessions of a Homeschooler blog. We originally used the shape tracing template (.pdf file requires Foxit or Adobe Acrobat) from Coloring Castle.
Material:
My shape outline worksheet or use [...]
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Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: I have seen similar ides is several places: Chasing Cheerios , Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary and My Two Happy Homeschoolers.
Material:
About 20 Popsicle craft sticks.
Markers.
Several sheets of paper.
Procedure:
On three Popsicle sticks, write the word “TRIANGLE” in the middle and draw a small triangle near both ends.
On four Popsicle sticks, [...]
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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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