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Sweet Pea is 36 months old.
From: I saw this really fun contact paper collage at What Do We Do All Day?
Material:
Contact paper. Scissors. Masking (or other removable) tape. Several bowls or baskets Different types of materials appropriate for sticking on a collage. (We used scraps of paper, pom poms, wooden […]
Sweet Pea is 36 months old.
From: I was browsing through the Montessori Services website when I came across a Grinding Activity Set. I though that Sweet Pea would love something like this and since it was right after Easter, I just happened to have a bunch of dyed, hard-boiled eggs in my […]
Sweet Pea is 35 months old.
From: Erika from Confessions of a Homeschooler often posts an individual Do-A-Dot letter worksheet when her tot is learning a particular letter (P for example), but I had trouble searching her site to find all of the letters. I also searched the web, but was surprised that I […]
Sweet Pea is 33 months old.
From: I found this really fun idea at Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds. I had never seen something like this before and couldn’t wait to try it.
Material:
Several slices of bread. Milk. Food Coloring (I highly recommend the gel type instead of the liquid drops that […]
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: This activity is based on the Montessori sound cylinders work. It is a great way to use some of those plastic eggs that are laying around after Easter and I’ve seen it in a ton of places (most recently on Giving Up On A Clean House and […]
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 35 months old.
From: A friend recommended the young-adult book The Lovely Bones. I figured that the young-adult categorization meant it was practically a children’s story so I began listening to the audio-book version of it. In the car. With Sweet Pea strapped into the back seat. 67 seconds later […]
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 34 months old.
From: I found this activity in MaryAnn Kohl‘s great book, Preschool Art.
Material:
1/3 cup sugar. 1 cup water. Whisk or spoon. Chalk (We had a great time with regular white chalk, but colored sidewalk chalk might be even more exciting). Bowl. Dark colored paper (black or […]
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