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Sweet Pea is 33 months old.
From: I found this really fun idea at Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds. I had never seen something like this before and couldn’t wait to try it.
Material:
Several slices of bread. Milk. Food Coloring (I highly recommend the gel type instead of the liquid drops that […]
Sweet Pea is 35 months old.
From: I am not sure where I first saw this idea, but This Little Project posted about a letter matching egg game and Crunchy and Green also posted about it, along with some other good ideas for plastic eggs.
Material:
26 Plastic eggs. Permanent marker. 2 Baskets or […]
Sweet Pea is 35 months old.
From: A friend recommended the young-adult book The Lovely Bones. I figured that the young-adult categorization meant it was practically a children’s story so I began listening to the audio-book version of it. In the car. With Sweet Pea strapped into the back seat. 67 seconds later […]
Sweet Pea is 34 months old.
From: I found this activity in MaryAnn Kohl‘s great book, Preschool Art.
Material:
1/3 cup sugar. 1 cup water. Whisk or spoon. Chalk (We had a great time with regular white chalk, but colored sidewalk chalk might be even more exciting). Bowl. Dark colored paper (black or […]
Sweet Pea is 34 months old.
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 […]
Sweet Pea is 34 months old.
From: A lot of our activities are really spontaneous like this one. I had my hand poised above a trash can, about to toss away some scrap paper from one of my own craft projects when Sweet Pea asked if she could look at them. She was […]
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!) If you want something with larger numbers (up to 10), try my animal counting worksheets (which can be cut […]
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 […]
Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: Someone commented on my Milk Cap Letter page and asked for me to make a Milk Cap Number template. I made up the Milk Cap Numbers, but then struggled with how I would use them until I came up with the idea for the worksheets listed below.
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Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: I know that spreading something with a knife is a common Montessori activity, but I am not sure where I first read about it.
Material:
Egg salad, cream cheese, jelly or any other food item that spreads easily. A small bowl to contain the spreadable item. Several […]
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