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Sweet Pea is 27 months old. From: This was inspired by my desire for a set of Montessori Insets, which are a bit out our price range right now. (The Montessori Primary Guide has a good description of how to use insets in the Montessori style.) Material: Any sort of plastic or metal stencils. […] 
Sweet Pea is 27 months old. From: I got the idea for making a life-size portrait from this tot school post on The Shafer Family blog. Material: A large sheet of paper at least as long as your tot is tall. (I suggest using a roll of craft paper or butcher paper, but […] 
Sweet Pea is 26 months old. From: At my sister-in-law’s suggestion, we made hand prints for a Father’s Day gift and Sweet Pea has been crazed about making “Han- Pits” ever since. Materials: A large stack of card stock or construction paper. (We went through about 5 times the amount of paper I thought […] 
Sweet Pea is 26 months.
From: One of my friends suggested this activity. Materials: Chalkboard. (See the Notes from the Trenches.) Paint brush. Small bowl of water. Towel for drying the chalkboard. Sponge to wipe up spills. Procedure: Show your tot how to dip […] 
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 […] 
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 […] 
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 […] 
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 […] 
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 […] |
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