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hare resources we find helpful to find ideas for your child click on the age range blog label or on the theme topic you are looking for on the left side of the page in each post we try to list optimal age ranges for the activity but you must judge for yourself if it is appropriate for your child when you try an activity out please comment and let us and everyone else know how your child liked it thursday december 31 2009 parts of the face age range 12 36 months materials blank paper crayons activity draw a circle for a face and tell your child that you are drawing a circle to make a head draw 2 eyes color them and point them out and tell your child these are eyes draw 2 ears nose mouth and hair describing as you go ask your child to point to each body part take your child s finger and trace the circle with it have your child point to his own eyes nose ears mouth and hair let your child color the picture credit slow and steady get me ready by june oberlander posted by amanda at 7 59 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels science toddler wednesday december 30 2009 teaching service each week we have a night we call family home evening we take this time to sing a hymn and have a lesson prepared by a member of the family we include prayer and scripture study we talk about family business and also do an activity together one week my husband taught about service he gave us each hearts and told us to do secret service for our family members when we completed the task we were to put a heart down so the person would know a secret service agent had been there an example would be if your child picked up daddy s socks for him he could put the heart down where the socks used to be maybe that would be service for mom soon after brayden came home from church with this heart pictured above he had done this in primary great minds think alike i guess this is a fun way to get your child excited about doing service for family members posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels service tuesday december 29 2009 licorice letters and shapes this is a fun activity to do when you are learning or reviewing letters and shapes the age appropriateness depends on your child if they can chew gummy candy in small pieces without choking you can try this the pull n peel twizzlers are softer than most licorice too they don t have to be able to manipulate the licorice strings themselves though practice can help with fine motor skills even watching you make shapes or letters and then trying to recognize them will help materials i used twizzlers pull n peel they seem to be very flexible and easy to manipulate hard surface like a table or cookie sheet activity pull of strips of the licorice and practice making shapes letters or numbers for your child to identify you can use one long strip for some shapes like ovals and circles for shapes with corners and sides it may be helpful to break the strips apart or cut them you can point out sides corners and angles when making them triangles have 3 sides and 3 corners see the 3 points let s count the sides together you can also make letters to identify eat when finished posted by raegan at 12 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alphabet fine motor skills letters math preschooler shapes toddler monday december 28 2009 fun with nursery rhymes with a little imagination you can come up with fun ways to incorporate nursery rhymes into your week with your children brayden s preschool teacher is always doing fun things with nursery rhymes one week at preschool brayden learned about little boy blue they colored a little boy blue cut him out and glued him to a popsicle stick they then took a bunch of grass you could use straw or strips of paper glued it to a crumpled piece of paper and glued it on a paper plate they then used little boy blue to learn about spacial relationships they did things like put him over and under the hay stack it also helped them to get a visual for the nursery rhyme posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels colors nursery rhymes friday december 25 2009 log rolls stepping stones and the foot flex here are two more activities you can do with your child to work on gross motor skills log rolls 1 have your child lay on their back 2 instruct them to keep their legs straight and raise their arms over their heads they are laying flat with arms and legs completely straight like a pencil is how i explain it 3 tell them to try to stay stiff like the pencil as you start to roll them over use as little force as possible to get them to roll while still staying straight the less you push the more they use their abdominal strength to roll over stepping stones 1 taking a few towels or a long piece of butcher paper make a path for them to walk on i used our balance beam 2 lay out obstacles on the floor in a straight line leaving room between items for them to step you can you paper towel or toilet paper rolls small books cereal boxes or anything you can find around the house for them to step over 3 for younger children hold their arms or one hand and have them walk stepping over the items it takes coordination for them to step over the item stay in a straight line and not fall you can also put pieces of paper down and have them walk or hop from paper to paper like stepping stones i bought a blue plastic table cloth from our dollar store and we pretended it was water foot flex and tippy toes 1 standing up have them alternate from flat feet to standing still on tippy toes have them try to stay on their tippy toes without falling or teetering you can hold something above their heads that they can only reach by standing on tippy toes 2 sitting with legs straight in front show them how to point and flex their feet i took a favorite stuffed animal and put it in front of my feet far enough away where i couldn t touch it with relaxed feet but close enough where the tips of my toes could touch it when toes were pointed we played a game where my toes pretended to sniff the bears feet foot pointed and then the toes ran away foot flexed saying pee yew she thought it was hilarious posted by raegan at 12 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gross motor skills pre toddler preschooler toddler wednesday december 23 2009 gingerbread tips last year i had a fabulous idea we would make a gingerbread house as a family i had in my head this picture perfect scene of my husband and me with our two beautiful children joyously creating this item so closely connected with the christmas season oh my it was far from that i spent most of my time telling the children to be patient and that they couldn t eat the candy kaitlyn then about 1 5 spent most of the time upset that she wasn t able to eat candy bradyen then 3 5 spent most of the time anxious to decorate the house once they did start decorating my husband and i foolishly directed their moves the whole time we were looking at each other with this laugh of what were we thinking we pretty much decided to never do that again until our kids were much older fast forward one year the effects of last year had worn off and i decided it wasn t that bad i went for a train kit this year a train would be better than a house my husband kind of gave me this look like i was crazy but was nice enough to go along with my plan i had thought things over and realized the problem with last year s experience was fully with the parents um that would be me and my husband we wanted this perfect looking house this year we decided we didn t care how the train turned out we would just let the kids have fun it worked we had fun the kids had fun and the train turned out quite nice pictured above so what are my tips for making a gingerbread creation with your children assemble the house train whatever beforehand that way the kids won t be sitting by you constantly asking when you are going to be done so they can decorate this will also give the item time to set up before little hands come along these hands are not delicate give the kids candy give your children a little bowl of candy to eat at will it is really quite unfair to give a child a pile of candy and then forbid him to eat any give him an amount you are okay with him eating leave perfectionism in the other room let your kids decorate it and forget about how it looks in the end in my experience you treasure the chaotic one they created themselves more than the symmetrical one you micromanaged if you are like me and tend to hover do something to prevent yourself from doing so i held my baby the whole time so i was distracted and just happy to have the older two busy have fun posted by valerie plowman at 12 39 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas gingerbread more reindeer activities i know that raegan provided you with enough reindeer activity ideas to last a month but i just had to share three more ideas ornament this is a simple ornament for your preschooler or toddler to make it requires yarn or string three popsicle sticks two eyes glue a pom pom paint paint brush and some pipe cleaner have your child paint the popsicle sticks brown let dry then have your child glue them into a triangle shape add a nose eyes and antlers glue a string on the back let dry and hang your ornament sandwiches i wanted to make a rudolph sandwich one day and just threw it together i only had peanut butter chocolate chips open and didn t want to open a new bag just for four pieces i just took two pretzels two chocolate chips and one almond m m for each sandwich it isn t fancy at all but the kids loved it brayden 4 5 appreciated it much more than kaitlyn 2 5 they want a rudolph sandwich every day now my point here is to remember that children are easily pleased it doesn t have to be fancy or professional for them to be happy with something like this color review brayden s preschool teacher used the rudolph idea to review the colors they had learned so far this year they had a little booklet with a picture of rudolph on each page they then put different colors of noses on each picture posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas reindeer tuesday december 22 2009 time capsule each year on our christmas tree we hang an ornament that serves as our time capsule after reading about a similar activity in the siblings busy book i decided to trade in our ornament for a bigger version we are doing this on christmas and i ll wrap it and pack it away with the christmas decorations next year i ll place it under our tree to open as a family ages any materials shoebox wrapping paper ribbon and scissors scale construction paper markers index cards or paper directions 1 using the index cards or paper label each one with a member of the family s name on each paper record height weight optional for adults haha special skills characteristics hobbies funny stories physical characteristics etc for example on my toddler s paper i might write her hair is long and very curly she cringes when she sees the brush she has two small freckles on her right cheek she is almost ____ pounds and ____ inches tall she can count to ___ knows all of her alphabet but mixes up the letters p and r sometimes her favorite song is ______ and her favorite movie is richard scary s counting video and any sing a long she loves frosty the snowman but calls him tashy she loves rhyming games especially rhyming her sister s name for a baby she weighs ____ and is ____ inches long barely any hair yet she has ____ teeth and just started crawling she keeps trying to pull up to standing but bonks her head a lot trying this she loves it when her sister walks into the room her favorite person right now is her daddy she loves saltine crackers and grabbing the dog s ears she also buries her head in your shoulder giggling and pretending to be shy when someone she loves talks to her she s ___ months old but she wears size ___ clothes you can include number of teeth unique characteristics favorite toys or foods things they sleep with etc trace hands and feet on construction paper you can also use ribbon to record height head circumference etc i am going to take a picture of us in front of the christmas tree and include it in the time capsule i also include a paper describing our christmas that year like where we went special events funny things that happened what they got for christmas etc one of my favorite things has been hanging on to these papers and reading them year after year this is what we used put inside an ornament year to year i have one from when i was 9 years old that i wrote it s one of my favorite traditions posted by raegan at 12 00 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas traditions monday december 21 2009 candy train brayden made this really cute candy train at preschool this past week and i just had to share it supplies milky way candy bar it needs to be something soft in the middle white frosting cardboard covered in foil string licorice stick pretzels bell shaped chocolate m ms or other round candy for wheels candy for decorating the train candy canes for connecting train cars rectangle piece of chocolate method spread frosting on foil lay licorice and foil down for the train tracks break the candy bar up into three pieces connect the candy bar pieces with broken candy cane pieces add wheels and other candy to the train sticking it to the train using frosting put rectangle piece on top of the front piece of the train the engine put the bell shaped chocolate upside down on top of the rectangle piece take a picture eat posted by valerie plowman at 1 00 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas trains friday december 18 2009 snowmen ornaments we made these ornaments when i was teaching and they turned out so cute you ll need white acrylic paint assorted permanent markers or paint markers and blue ornaments shatterproof ornaments work really well i like the matte blue ornaments rather than the shiny but use what you like best we tried a bunch of different colors and the white hand prints against the blue ornaments seemed to work the best if you have the choice get a big pack of the ornaments the first few didn t turn out well but i got better the more i did directions paint their hand with the white acrylic paint more paint seems to mean more smearing so try a light coat i physically took my daughters hand told her not to move any of her fingers and had her grab the ornament and lightly pressed on each finger to get the print let them dry use 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