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ld that position for as long as possible switch legs my daughter needed to hold onto the wall first to get her balance one leg raise sitting on your bottom lean back and support yourself with your hands arms straight try to raise just one leg at a time then try both at one time make sure you aren t leaning back to raise them up but rather using your abdominal muscles to raise your legs walking while grabbing ankles exactly what the name says grab your ankles while keeping the legs straight and try to walk wheelbarrow this is an activity that they need your help with each time have your child stand up straight then have them place their hands on the floor slowly grab their legs and lift telling my toddler to walk with her hands was helpful since she wasn t sure what we were doing at first hopscotch doing this correctly wasn t really doable the first few times for my toddler this activity takes lots of practice hopping with control on one foot is the first step then try hoping on one foot and switching to two feet we recently got a great hopscotch rug from wal mart that charis has in her room bubble wrap hopping with all the packages and mailing we do around christmas we usually have some bubble wrap left around the house today we practiced hopping jumping over jumping on the balls of the feet and jumping into a stradle position over the bubble wrap she got a kick out of the popping sounds and it helped her focus on landing hard and keeping her balance at the same time posted by raegan at 12 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child gross motor skills preschooler toddler monday december 7 2009 christmas tree rice krispy treats this is a fun activity to add to your tree week you can do this any time of the year we are learning about trees during the month of december and talking about evergreen trees age range as soon as you start allowing them to help cook i would say most 15 18 month olds and older can do this supplies saucepan you could use as small as a 3 quart but i like to use a 6 quart so you can stir without spilling helpful for me and the children rice krispies 5 cups i always buy the inexpensive rice krispies in the bags like malt o meal marshmallows 4 cups miniature which equals about half a bag or 40 regular butter 1 4 cup green food coloring candies to decorate tree like red candies or string liquorice optional regular size marshmallows for base of tree optional toothpicks optional cookie sheet activity get cookie sheet out and grease or spray with non cooking spray melt butter in saucepan add marshmallows as you are measuring be sure to incorporate math skills for the younger toddler it might just be saying we need to fill this up 5 times can you help me count as your child gets older you can increase the difficulty of this brayden 4 5 is quite good at math and can do simple addition in his head he has also started learning about fractions thanks to my husband the engineer when we made these i used a pyrex measuring cup that measures up to 2 cups i told him we needed 4 cups of marshmallows i then told him our measuring cup held two cups and showed him where the two cup mark was i also showed him where the 1 cup mark was i asked him how many times we needed to fill it up and to what to reach five cups cook over low heat stirring constantly until smooth and all marshmallows have melted add food coloring continuing to stir constantly remove from heat measure out rice krispies do the same for measuring this as you did with the marshmallows use this as a teaching opportunity add rice krispies stir until well coated butter hands i just sprayed cooking spray on our hands put a spoonful of the mixture on the cookie sheet and have your child form into the shape of a christmas tree you might want to show him how first also it might be hot so check to make sure it is cool enough before letting your child touch it this is a good opportunity to talk about three dimensional shapes continue until mixture is gone re butter hands as needed decorate trees if desired once formed you can add the tree base by sticking a toothipick in a large marshmallow and then into the base of the tree eat and enjoy please note that these are not gooey rice krispie treats these have less butter and less marshmallows to help the tree stay up but it has less fat right right posted by valerie plowman at 9 31 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels baking cooking christmas evergreen math preschooler shapes toddler trees friday december 4 2009 reindeer week this week we are learning about reindeer i decided to take it a step further and go ahead and make the learning poster val posted about and make it a reindeer themed week here s what we are doing 1 hands and feet reindeer this is great as a keepsake for little hand prints you ll need brown and black paper plus 2 small white circles for eyes or you can use big wiggly eyes one black circle for the nose red glitter optional glue scissors pencil for tracing trace their foot or feet if you are making more than one on brown paper trace hands on black or tan paper these are for the antlers so make them whatever color you want them to be you need 2 hands and one foot per reindeer let them glue the hands on top since my daughter is still not a fan of glue on her hands we use cotton swabs to let her put the glue on her papers glue eyes and nose on cover the nose with glue and let them sprinkle red glitter on the nose if they want to make rudolph 2 reindeer cookies you need sugar cookie dough store bought is fine pretzels chocolate chips and m ms before you start break the pretzels up to look like antlers for the kids to do roll the sugar cookies into balls stick 2 pretzel on for antlers for you to do bake according to sugar cookie directions while they are still hot stick on the m m and chocolate chips learn from my mistake if you bake them on wax paper you can slide them off the cookie sheet so your child can stick them on without fear of burning themselves on the pan 3 reindeer breakfast williams sonoma has these great pancake molds super easy easy to clean and they have a snowman too that way it can be used past christmas served pancakes with a side of pretzel sticks and dried berries sticks and berries i invested in these because they are very nicely made and will last a long time i think we ll get lots of use out of these 4 the letter r we ve been using letter stamps and stamping papers holding the stamps pressing on the ink pad and pressing hard enough to make the letter on the paper are great for hand strength also if you put lines on a paper and have them stamp on the line you can work on hand eye coordination as well i also use clear squeeze bottles to make pancakes in the shape of the letter r we have cookie cutters in the shape of letters to cut out cheese lunch meat bread etc 5 shape of the week if it s triangles make open faced reindeer sandwiches cut a slice of bread in half diagonally you ll have 2 triangles i let my toddler use a plastic knife or spreader to smear on peanut butter add some pretzels for the antlers cut a banana up in coins if you cut one of the coins in half you can use those for eyes chocolate chips shredded cheese rolled into a ball or brown m ms work for the nose you can use raisins craisins or m ms draw a reindeer out of basic shapes on a piece of paper triangle head circles for eyes and nose long rectangles for antlers use the do a dot markers to color helpful if the shape of the week is a circle too try shape pictures you can also cut out shapes and let your child try to make a reindeer out of the shapes 6 puzzles this is a do it yourself puzzle find a picture of a reindeer and print 2 copies depending on the skill level of your child cut one picture into pieces show them the original and let them try to put the puzzle together when just staring out or for young children start by cutting the picture in half or fourths 7 make a touch and feel reindeer book sounds complicated but it really isn t some reindeer facts you need to know first reindeer have antlers that are covered with velvet when growing the velvet falls off once the antlers get to the correct size the antlers help them hear cut out antlers using felt velvet or cloth and glue them on a page reindeer like it cold using paper or a coffee filter cut out a snowflake and glue it on another page if you don t know how to make a snowflake try this website for directions they can swim easily take a picture of a reindeer and glue down crumpled blue tissue paper like it s swimming the hooves can change depending on the season in the summer they are soft and spongy and in the winter they are hard cut a hoof out of a sponge and piece of cardboard like from a box they like to eat moss but will eat leaves and grass take a walk outside and get some reindeer food to glue in your book 8 reindeer song sounds like 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed eight little reindeer pulling santa s sled one fell down and bumped his head the elves called santa and santa said can seven little reindeer pull my sled go from 8 to 1 repeating the above lines one little reindeer pulling santa s sled he fell down and bumped his head the elves called santa and santa said call rudolph works on rhyme and counting backwards from 10 to 1 and finger recognition of numbers 9 reindeer food mix oats and glitter or oats and green and red sugar sprinkles sprinkle outside for the reindeer christmas eve we ve added raisins too 10 reindeer bird feeders a new spin on the traditional peanut butter bird feeders cover a pine cone with peanut butter place pretzels for antlers and raisins for eyes and nose first i used dried cherries for the nose and prunes for the eyes depends on the size of your pine cone then roll in bird seed i saved an old coffee can and put the pine cone inside with birdseed and let my toddler shake it less mess 11 footprints cut out 2 sponges like reindeer footprints get the sponges wet and tape them to your child s shoes or tie them the tape doesn t slip if you wrap the masking tape all the way around the shoe put a huge piece of paper on the floor i used brown like dirt mud the sponge will make footprints on the paper as they walk i put a string down and had charis try to walk in a straight line we also pretended to dig for food like reindeer do the prints dry quickly leaving a clean piece of paper to draw or stomp on since it s just water there wasn t much to clean up have fun posted by raegan at 12 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas reindeer thursday december 3 2009 advent prayer beads and advent wreath on the post about preparation for christmas and general traditions for the advent season i mentioned two traditions we do in our home the first is the lighting of the advent wreath each sunday there are 4 candles on the advent wreath we bought our candle holder at a christian book store for pretty cheap and added a wreath around the edges the four candles represent the four weeks of advent and also hope love joy peace we light one additional candle each sunday after church we attend a 5pm mass until all four are lit the pink candle joy is the third to be lit so it goes in a circle starting with the front candle the second tradition that i am starting this year is saying an advent prayer each evening using prayer beads to keep track of the prayers these are called chaplets in the catholic tradition and can have either a saint medal or a cross at the bottom my husband is protestant and does not recognize saints so we used plain crosses if your faith tradition doesn t use crosses a simple bigger bead at the bottom to mark the end point would work just fine materials purple or blue beads the colors traditionally associated with advent smaller silver beads to go between the larger colored beads cardstock with prayer printed on it to print the version i used click here these materials can be found at any craft store i bought mine at joann s activity tie a knot around the clasp at the top of the cross then add 2 small beads 1 large bead all the way around until you have 15 large beads tie a knot when you re finished in the evening sit down as a family and each family member can hold their beads and for literate children the prayer you ve chosen printed on cardstock say the prayer 15 times moving your fingers along each large bead to keep track this is an extremely meditative practice and is great for focusing attention on the lord in our home tobias is still very young so he just played with his beads while i said the prayers but over time he will be expected to at least sit quietly during this prayer time and later will follow along with the beads and eventually pray with us for now his only participation is to watch us and say ahh may at the end shoes are not required for this activity in fact tobias discovered that the prayer beads are perfect size to fit around his foot and ankle posted by amanda at 7 41 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels holidays religion wednesday december 2 2009 alphabet puzzle this is a major hit with both my 4 5 year old and my 2 5 year old it is great for learning to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters while incorporating fine motor skills age range as soon as they are old enough to know and recognize their letters i got this idea from preschooler s busy book which is for ages 3 6 but as i said kaitlyn does this really well at 2 5 supplies index cards pen marker scissors prep write a capital letter on the left side of the index card and a lower case letter on the right side of the card cut each card in half cut in wavy or zig zag lines i used my scrap booking scissors activity set out sets of letters to start i just did about six matches so 12 cards as i saw they could handle more i did more have your child find the matches hints if you have an older child who knows letters really well you might not want to do colored index cards because they can use the colors to help find the matches easier what i did with brayden was just set out all red cards together all yellow cards etc if you have a child who likes things perfect do this activity on a table or another hard surface so the two pieces will fit together nicely extensions if you do them on colored index cards you can flip them over and do color matching you could also do this with numbers shapes mommy and baby animals etc photos posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alphabet preschooler toddler tuesday december 1 2009 christmas books and recommendations here s my list of christmas or hanukkah books that are in my collection as i find more i ll add them to the list feel free to let me know some great books and i ll add your 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