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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. […]


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 […]


Kumon Let’s Sticker and Glue Book – Part 2

From: I first posted about this Kumon Let’s Sticker and Paste book here. In the meantime, I received a great comment from Julie at The Adventures of Bear about how to make sticker work easier for tots. She suggested that I peel the excess sticker material off of the sheet, leaving only the stickers […]


Playing at the Sink

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 […]


Stringing Penne Pasta

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 […]


Planting a Flower

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 […]


Dot Painters

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 […]