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Button Outline Matching

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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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