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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: Back around New Year’s, Amy posted about her yearly family interview on Teach Mama and then I recently saw something similar from Nicole at Tired Need Sleep.
Material:
Pen or pencil. List of interview questions. (Amy has a down-loadable one here or you […]
Sweet Pea is 34 months old.
From: We have had great luck with Kumon’s “My First” series of books, so I decided to order Kumon’s My First Book of Cutting from Amazon.
Prerequisite: If your tot hasn’t worked with scissors before, I suggest you try the Introduction to Scissors – Cutting Play-doh activity […]
Sweet Pea is 33 months old.
From: Color Tablets are another traditional Montessori activity. I found a simple version of this activity in the book Teach Me To Do It Myself by Maja Pitamic and another good description in Basic Montessori: Learning Activities for Under-Fives by David Gettman.
Material:
12 color tablets, which can […]
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 32 months old.
From: I read about this great idea for a Salt Shaker Scuplture at the very informative My Montessori Journey.
Material:
Pony beads contained in a bowl or basket. 5 or 6 pipe cleaners. An empty spice jar or salt shaker. Tray (optional, but useful to contain […]
Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: I can’t remember where I saw these first, but I ordered some from the Oriental Trading Company several months ago.
Material:
Pegs and a Peg Board
Observations: I tried to show these to Sweet Pea several months ago, but I couldn’t really get her interested […]
Sweet Pea is 32 months old.
From: I started doing this a while ago so that Sweet Pea could be involved in writing thank you notes for her gifts. After Christmas this year, we had several thank you notes to write.
Material:
Blank note cards and envelopes. (Target sells some cheap ones near their […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: I had an old box of Crayola Model Magic which mentioned sticking objects to the material so this seemed like a good project for us. And I always have beans on hand. At first Sweet Pea just stuck the beans into flat pieces of the Model […]
Sweet Pea is 31 months old.
From: I bought a cheapo sticker & album set from the Dollar Store. When I gave it to Sweet Pea, she started sorting the stickers by color all on her own. I was pretty impressed that she had made up her own Tot School activity with it.
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-Shannon
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