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Unloading the Dishwasher

Sweet Pea is 26 months old.

From: This was an activity created out of desperation because Sweet Pea wanted to be so involved every morning when I unloaded the dishwasher. She liked to roll the racks in and out, hunt for sharp objects such as knives and vegetable peelers among the utensils and […]


Kumon Let’s Color

Sweet Pea is 26 months.

Materials:

Kumon Let’s Color (I bought mine from Target.) Crayola Twistables Crayons ( I also found these at Target.)

Procedure: The book itself and each page contains instructions for presentation.

Observations: The book has a lot of instructions for a coloring book, which I liked. The first page discusses […]


Sound Bells

Sweet Pea is 26 months old.

From: I saw this on The Wonder Years blog.

Materials:

10 Closed jingle bell-style 1″ bells. (I got a small bag from Micheal’s for about $3.00) A butter knife. 3 Baskets or bowls.

Procedure:

Use the butter knife to pry one of the […]


Jars and Lids

Sweet Pea is 25 months old.

From: This was another activity from by the book Teach Me To Do It Myself by Maja Pitamic.

Materials:

5 jars with matching lids. (I just saved up different jars with lids for a month.)

Procedure:

Remove the lids from the jars. Set […]


Pasta Fit

Sweet Pea is 25 months old.

From: I am not exactly sure where this idea came from, but I think I saw a picture of something similar at 1+1+1=1.

Materials:

Penne pasta. A salad dressing mixer (works great because you can remove the lid to get the pasta back […]


Letter Puzzle

Sweet Pea is 25 months old.

From: Sweet Pea’s chunky 4 and 5 piece puzzles were getting too easy for her so I picked up this letter puzzle from Target for about $10.

Observations: This puzzle was much harder for Sweet Pea than I thought it was going to be. I wrongly assumed […]


Squeezing Sponges

Sweet Pea is 25 months old.

From: I saw a picture of some cut up sponges and a garlic press on the really fantastic The Wonder Years blog and thought it looked like a great idea.

Materials:

1 sponges cut into 1″ cubes. 1 sponge for cleaning up water. […]


Paint with Water – Part 2

Observations: Paint with water is our new favorite activity. I first talked about the paint with water book we received from Sweet Pea’s Great Aunt Jackie here. Since then, I have been on a constant look out for more of them and have discovered a few things that I wanted to share.

We found […]


Egg to Carton Transfer

Sweet Pea is 25 months.

From: I think this was just an idea I had at Easter when I saw this pair of cute little egg dipper tongs at Micheals. It turns out that Sweet Pea couldn’t use the dippers at all yet. However, she had such a great time transferring plastic eggs into […]


Color Matching Wheel

Sweet Pea is 25 months.

From: This from Carissa’s Learning Wheel idea at 1+1+1=1.

Materials:

1 piece of heavy white paper or cardstock. 6 different colors (red, blue, yellow, purple, green, orange) of cardstock or construction paper. A laminator or press and seal lamination pockets. (Optional, but good if you want to […]