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Pony Beads and Pipe Cleaners

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 […]


Pegs and Pegboards

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 […]


Thank You Notes

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 […]


Whisking Flour and Water

Sweet Pea is 31 months old.

From: This was created in a frazzled moment of “I barely have time to feed us, much less do a Tot School activity, because I have way overextended myself this holiday season.” This is a quick activity for those times when you are rushing around the […]


Model Magic Bean Mosaic

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 […]


Sorting Stickers

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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Introduction to Patterns with Mini-Erasers

Sweet Pea is 31 months old.

From: I found this idea on RockerMom’s Spinner’s End Nursery School.

Material:

Pattern Matching Music Notes Worksheet (.pdf file requires Foxit or Adobe Acrobat). RockerMom also posted her own worksheet, but I made my own before I found hers. Mini Erasers in the shape of music notes. […]


Foam Puzzles

Sweet Pea is 31 months old.

From: We got this set of 4 foam puzzles as a gift from Sweet Pea’s grandma.

Material:

Foam Puzzles (I couldn’t find the exact set that we were given. Here is a link to an uppercase and lowercase puzzle that Carissa from 1+1+1=1 recommends, plus […]


Popsicle Stick Shapes

Sweet Pea is 31 months old.

From: I have seen similar ides is several places: Chasing Cheerios , Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary and My Two Happy Homeschoolers.

Material:

About 20 Popsicle craft sticks. Markers. Several sheets of paper.

Procedure:

On three Popsicle sticks, write the word “TRIANGLE” in the middle and draw […]


Zoobies

Sweet Pea is 30 months old.

From: When I was younger, I was crazy about Zoobooks, which is a high quality children’s magazine about animals. I thought I might subscribe, and happily discovered that the Zoobooks company now makes a magazine for younger kids called Zootles and one for toddlers called Zoobies. Our […]