
Sweet Pea is 39 months old.
From: I found this excellent activity at The Adventures of Bear.
Material:
Wax paper.
Permanent marker.
Eye dropper (We found ours at Micheals, but you could also use an old Children’s Tylenol bottle dropper.)
Small bowl.
Liquid water color or food coloring.
A piece of blank paper.
Smock (Optional.)
Jelly roll pan (Optional, but good for containing spills.)
Procedure: [...]
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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 38 months old.
From: A couple of months ago, we tried to make our own rubbing plates out of hot glue and cardboard, but they did not work very well. When I saw a set of Roylco ready-made rubbing plates at Hobby Lobby, I thought we would give them a [...]
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Sweet Pea is 38 months old.
From: This is another very simple idea from Teach Mama.
Material:
Paper.
Hole Punch.
Procedure:
Show your tot how to carefully line up the piece of paper into the business end of the hole punch.
Demonstrate squeezing the handles together to punch the hole.
Next give your tot the hole punch and help him or her [...]
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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 37 months old.
From: I saw this on Giving Up on a Clean House, Crunchy and Green, and Chasing Cheerios. Also, the Montessori Color Tablets, Box #3 exercise is a somewhat similar activity.
Material:
Paint sample cards. Select 2 identical sheets for each color you want to use.
Clothespins.
Scissors.
Glue. (I prefer these glue dots.)
Strips of cardboard [...]
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Sweet Pea is 37 months old.
From: I found this quick activity on Counting Coconuts.
Material:
Clean plastic container with a tight fitting lid. (I used an old Gerber Puffs container.)
Box cutter or knife.
Poker chips or fake coins.
Bowl or basket to hold the poker chips.
Procedure:
Carefully cut a slit in the top of the plastic lid. Test [...]
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Sweet Pea is 37 months old.
From: I found this quick little activity on ABC and 123 and The Shafer Family.
Material:
Popsicle or craft sticks.
Flat glass gems (We found ours in the floral section at Micheal’s)
Bowl (to hold the gems).
Tray (optional).
Procedure:
Put the gems in the bowl and place everything on a table near your tot.
Place a [...]
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Sweet Pea is 37 months old.
From: I love these new Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds and I bought a huge tub of them from Sam’s Club. However, if I let myself eat them straight out of the jar, I could devour my entire days worth of calories in one sitting. Faced with such a temptation, [...]
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Sweet Pea is 36 months old.
From: I saw this in a bunch of places (The Shafer Family, The Adventures of Bear, and My Montessori Journey) and really wanted to do it, but it took me a while to find the non-skid suction mats.
Material:
1 Mini non-skid bathtub suction mat. (I had a terrible time finding these, [...]
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