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Sweet Pea is 4 years old. From: When Sweet Pea began to tire of the Tape Maze, I extended it with this activity. Material: Masking Tape. A handful of pom-poms or cotton balls Small bucket or bowl. Procedure: Set up a tape maze as I described in the Tape Maze activity. Have […] 
Sweet Pea is 4 years old. From: This is a variation on the traditional Montessori “Walking on the Line” activity. Material: A roll of masking tape. Procedure: Tape a very long piece of masking tape to the floor. Place several other long pieces of masking tape on the floor that cross […]  
Sweet Pea is 47 months old. From: I kept seeing the Mighty Mind product pop up on my Amazon recommendations and decided to try it. (Apparently Amazon thinks I am a 4 year-old child. All my recommendations are decidedly geared towards the preschool set. You think I might enjoy reading the new Jean Auel’s […]  
Sweet Pea is 48 months old. I am always running out of audio books for Sweet Pea. We have listened to the entire Little House series, Anne of Green Gables, all of Ramona, Henry and Ribsy, Winnie the Pooh, a few Magic Treehouses and as much of Junie B. Jones as I […]  
Sweet Pea is 47 months old. From: This is another activity suggested in John Bowman’s new book Montessori at Home (I am giving away a copy here.) Material: Tweezers (I used rounded-tip beading tweezers). A bowl of pony beads in 4 different colors 4 Small bowls. Procedure: Sit near your tot […] 
Sweet Pea is 45 months old. From: The Activity Mom blogged about these cute foam shape puzzles and Walking by the Way did a slightly easier version of them. Material: Self-adhesive foam shapes (or non-adhesive shapes and glue). 2 or 3 sheets of card stock or heavy paper. Scissors. Sharpie. Basket or bowl […] 
Sweet Pea is 45 months old. From: I found this cute little cinnamon and sugar grinder at the grocery store and thought it would be a great practical life activity for Sweet Pea. Material: Spice grinder. Thinly sliced apples. Procedure: Show your tot how to hold the grinder upside down over the […]  
Sweet Pea is 45 months old. From: Have you heard of Twig? Sweet Pea has recently outgrown a lot of her toddler things so I have been looking for some new preschool toys. I had seen a lot of great reviews for Twig, a unique building block set, so I was thrilled when I […] 
Sweet Pea is 45 months old. From: I was inspired by pictures of Foam Shape Puzzles and a Mystery Pattern Blocks game in Erica’s Logical Thinking post at ABC and 123. I thought that the cheap foam shapes would be perfect for a patterning activity. Material: Self-adhesive foam shapes. (or non-adhesive shapes and […]  
Sweet Pea is 44 months old. From: I do a lot of my Christmas shopping online and recently have been inundated with boxes full of packing peanuts. Instead of just throwing them away, I let Sweet Pea make a collage with them. Material: Paper. Styrofoam packing peanuts. Washable white glue. (We like the Crayola […] |
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