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Does it Fit?

Sweet Pea is 24 months old.

From: A family friend told us about this great “Does it Fit?” activity.

Procedure: Cut an empty paper towel roll in half and gather a collection of objects that do and don’t fit through the roll. We used a dog bone, a chap stick tube, a ball, some […]


Transfering the Counting Teddies

I bought a pair of plastic tongs for under $1 at a Party America and put them on a tray with 1 basket of counting bears and another empty basket. Still enamored with the teddy bears, Sweet Pea was ready to bring this tray to her table as soon as she saw it.

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Kumon Let’s Sticker & Glue Book

Sweet Pea is 23 months.

After Sweet Pea’s trouble with the tiny Where’s George Stickers a couple of weeks ago, I was really excited about finding this Kumon Let’s Sticker & Paste book at Target. It has pages designed for sticking and gluing specifically provided stickers and cut-outs. For example, the first page is […]


Sorting the Counting Bears

Sweet Pea is 23 months old.

A few weeks ago I wandered into The Supply Closet (a teacher supply store) and found some counting bears that I had read about on 1+1+1=1 . The bears I bought were actually a little different and more expensive than the ones Carissa recommended because there are more […]


Paint with Water

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 […]


Scent Bottles

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 […]


“Sound Eggs” or “A Descent into Hysteria”

Blissful Moments [Link Removed because the blog is now private.] had a great idea for tot school of using plastic Easter eggs as a sound matching activity. I had seen something like this a while ago and was interested in the idea of using the eggs as containers. I was pretty enthusiastic […]


Where’s George Stickers

1+1+1=1’s Pacman had fun with a Where’s George $1 sticker set from Target so when I saw the same set, I thought we would give it a try. Sweet Pea liked looking at the stickers and seemed excited by the book, but the stickers were so tiny she couldn’t really work with them. I […]


Fill and Spill Bottle

I found this idea at Aday Family Memories, but used pom-poms instead of pasta as another reader suggested.

Sweet Pea really had to concentrate to get the puffs into the bottle. She was very intent on getting every last one of them into the bottle and then loved shaking them back out again. We […]


Cookie Cutter Play-Doh

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 […]