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 Sweet Pea is 24 months old. From: My mom suggested this. She says that she used to do this with me when I was a tot. 🙂 Materials: Sink. Sturdy chair or step stool. Sponge, measuring cups, old produce (like a carrot or piece of lettuce), dish wand or other […]  Sweet Pea is 24 months old.
From: I think I have seen this in several places, but the most recent was an article at wonderbrains.com. That article even described how you could dye the pasta first, but we didn’t mess with that this time. Materials: A […] From: My mother suggested this activity. Procedure: We bought plastic sandbox tools from Babies R Us for $1 each and a marigold plant from the local grocery store. My mom had a couple of terra cotta pots and a small watering can. We gave Sweet Pea one of the pots and showed her how […]  
From: I got the idea for this type of art work from Carissa’s tot school post at 1+1+1=1 and I bought the Do-A-Dot Rainbow Painting Set from Micheal’s Craft Store. Procedure: There isn’t a whole lot to explain. I just put a piece of paper in front of Sweet Pea, unscrewed the cap on […]
I used to love “Paint with Water” books so when Sweet Pea’s Great Aunt Jackie brought one over for her, I think I was as excited as Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea spent a lot of time looking through the pictures of Spot’s Busy Day, even before I […] Sweet Pea had a great time with these scent bottles. I have forgotten where I originally saw this idea, but when I went searching for it again, I found a good description at MontessoriMom. Essentially (E-scent-ially, hah!), you make up bottles that contain different smells. There are two of each scent and your tot […] 
I bought some plastic animal shaped cookie cutters and Sweet Pea had a fun time using them on Play-Doh. She is still learning to regulate how hard she has to press to make the cutter actually cut, but she was always thrilled when we would pull away the extra dough […] I read a tot school idea about crumpling paper and was inspired to have Sweet Pea crumple pieces of yellow tissue paper for a mane and then glue them onto a lion head (a cut-out yellow circle w/ construction paper eyes, mouth and nose). Her idea of crumpling was not quite as thorough as […]  
We have been doing a “Letter of the Week” for the past couple of months. Each week I draw a letter on a piece of paper and put it inside a magnetic pocket on our fridge. During the week I’ll show the letter to Sweet Pea and we talk about what it is and […] |
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