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 Sweet Pea is 26 months old. From: I saw this on The Wonder Years blog. Materials: 10 Closed jingle bell-style 1″ bells. (I got a small bag from Micheal’s for about $3.00) A butter knife. 3 Baskets or bowls. Procedure: Use the butter knife to pry one of the […]  Sweet Pea is 25 months old. From: This was another activity from by the book Teach Me To Do It Myself by Maja Pitamic. Materials: 5 jars with matching lids. (I just saved up different jars with lids for a month.) Procedure: Remove the lids from the jars. Set […] 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 […] 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. […] 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 […]  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 […] Sweet Pea is 24 months old.
From: This simple idea was inspired by the excellent book Teach Me To Do It Myself by Maja Pitamic. I found a slightly more detailed explanation at Shu-Chen Yen’s On-Line Monntessori Albums. I decided that having Sweet Pea clip the clothespins to […] 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 […] 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. […] 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 […] |
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