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Jars and Lids

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 […]


Squeezing Sponges

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. […]


Egg to Carton Transfer

Sweet Pea is 25 months.

From: I think this was just an idea I had at Easter when I saw this pair of cute little egg dipper tongs at Micheals. It turns out that Sweet Pea couldn’t use the dippers at all yet. However, she had such a great time transferring plastic eggs into […]


Removing Clothespins from a Basket

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 […]


Stringing Penne Pasta

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 […]


Planting a Flower

From: My mother suggested this activity.

Procedure: We bought plastic sandbox tools from Babies R Us for $1 each and a marigold plant from the local grocery store. My mom had a couple of terra cotta pots and a small watering can.

We gave Sweet Pea one of the pots and showed her how […]


Transfering the Counting Teddies

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.

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