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e card shut for good teachable moments discuss the similarities and differences about each texture have your little one come up with adjectives to describe the texture smooth shiny bumpy squishy crinkly or sort the textures posted by becca at 5 18 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pretoddler texture toddler toddlers thursday june 2 2011 family board book i made these board books for j when he was 12 or 13 months old it was so easy to accomplish and well worth it j has always loved them i think these would be great from infancy on just keep your little one s slobber away since the ink will bleed or better yet seal the pages beforehand i bought a board book kit from amazon i m pretty sure this is the link the kit included the books blank labels for each page and a computer template to download of course you don t have to use the labels you can draw on the books or even have your toddler create their own book the family book i made is very simple i included parents grandparents aunts uncles and cousins we don t live anywhere near any family but i really wanted j to learn who all his relatives were this way when we are able to see them he was already familiar with their pictures at least each page in the book has just one labeled picture so it s very clear who is who i used to read this book a lot to him before we took a trip to visit family to refresh his memory after each trip we ve taken to visit family j tends to return to the book a lot on his own too i do think if i were to do it again i would try and include photos that were a little more fun like grandpa playing with a ball or aunt jenn riding a bike whereas i just have a photo of each one smiling my dad loves me was actually a father s day gift from j to daddy this is his favorite of the two board books probably because daddy is j s favorite person in the world i included lots of pictures of j and dad from birth on i added a rhyming story to go along with the photos j loves that he sees them playing the guitar or playing with a ball in the pictures when we ve taken a few trips without dad i brought j s daddy book along with us to read which he really likes here s the text of j s daddy s book right from the start dad was my biggest fan we share kisses and cuddles and lots of big grins my daddy is teaching me to play the guitar i m teaching him to take care of the car we work out together we act silly together we walk and we ride and we explore together we splash around in the pool we eat ice cream till we drool whether we re playing ball or just hanging out my daddy loves me you can t get better than that another side benefit of the board books is that when j has experienced a little separation anxiety and hesitant to play alone i have kept the books within his reach so he has pictures of those he loves close by i got this idea from an online group i m in i m honestly not sure how much this helped since any bout of separation anxiety was very short lived for j it certainly didn t hurt though posted by becca at 5 03 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books father s day gifts pre toddler preschooler pretoddler toddler toddlers thursday march 31 2011 sticker sorting we do a lot of sticker sorting in this house it is a great way for j to practice categories and also helps him with fine motor skills getting the stickers off really works those pincher muscles it requires little prep on my part and the only supplies necessary are paper and stickers these activities also work really well on airplanes easy to pack and keeps them occupied for a long time we travel a lot and i always have some type of sticker sorting included in our carry on bag prep i printed out pictures of a road the water and the sky you could definitely just draw these as part of the activity on the plane i then cut out stickers of things that were found in each location i placed the stickers in a zip up pencil bag j pulled out one sticker at a time and decided which setting it should be placed in this worked really well and kept him occupied for awhile he had a lot of stickers to place we ve also done a similar activity in a hotel room i drew a train track road and lake on some paper and he found stickers to place on each he was then quite content to drive his cars around the tiny road for quite awhile finally we ve done something similar at a restaurant i have a random assortment of items in my purse at any given moment in this case stickers and index cards we drew a setting on each one and he sorted the stickers these type of activities would also work well for long doctor appointments and car rides too or at home of course here are a couple other examples i ve posted on in the past sorting colors with stickers counting with stickers we ve also done shapes seasons letters and animal homes the possibilities are limited only by your sticker collection posted by becca at 4 31 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cars fine motor skills pre toddler preschool preschooler pretoddler sorting toddler toddlers thursday march 10 2011 silhouette matching this activity took j s matching skills up a notch and was cheap very easy to prepare and from start to finish allowed for lots of play time first we got some of those growing sponges from the dollar section as target i have no clue what these are actually called but they come in little pill shapes and grow in warm water i gave j a few new ones to play with during bathtime over the past few days he s still entertained by 2 or 3 at a time so i might as well get good use out of that dollar i tried implementing some learning during this time keeping one in hot water and one in cooler water to see which grew the fastest on another night we kept one still in a cup and the other he got to pour from one cup to the other to see if that made it grow faster honestly though j was paying little attention to the mini science experiment and just wanted to play with them we saved all the sponge creatures and when he finished the entire package i dried them all out and stored them with the packaging for a rainy day on the back of the package there is a silhouette of each creature along with its name i cut those out into individual pieces and had j match the sponge creature to its silhouette i keep a few different sets of these in ziploc baggies to pull out every now and then as he improves i increase the number to match each time he thinks it s a puzzle and he loves puzzles this type of matching is actually a little more difficult because they aren t matching two exact items but rather an object and an image there is a size difference in the objects and images the silhoueete factor means there is little detail to each object and image forcing to look at the outline of each object and j often does not actually know what the object is so he must focus on shape the colors of the image and object aren t always the same posted by becca at 7 24 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bath pretoddler toddlers thursday march 3 2011 hunt in the dark this was one of the first games j ever played when he was 16 months old i brought a flashlight plastic cup and 10 pompom balls into his room i hid in plain sight the balls throughout his room we turned out the light and used the flashlight to try and find them as we found them he would put them in his cup so simple and such a winner it took almost 20 minutes to get all the balls in his cup he kept accidentally dropping one or more out of the cup while reaching for another one he would bend down pick up the ball while the last one fell out of the cup put the ball inside the cup then look down and see another ball right there too or he would manage to get 5 or 6 balls in the cup bend down to pick up the 7th put it in his empty cup turn around and find 6 more right there behind him when he finally finished he was happy to play again and again my basic teaching goal going into this was to encourage him to finish what he started to me that s the requirement of a game you re given a task told what is required to win and you play until the win end is achieved true he had no competition in this game unless you count the sneaky cup that just kept tossing out all those balls but at his age the task itself is competition enough as he s gotten older i can hide items in more difficult spots or even hide in the dark myself and he has to use the flashlight to find me since all toddlers seem to love flashlights this just adds extra fun to the traditional hide and seek this is cross posted here posted by becca at 4 52 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pre toddler pretoddler toddler saturday august 28 2010 handprint sun age range 1 and up materials yellow finger paint paper hands activity draw a circle in yellow paint crayon paint your child s hands with yellow paint have your child put their handprint all around the edges of the circle to color it in and create the rays of the sun with their fingers tip turn the paper so they can get their fingers pointing outward the entire way around i thought of this after the fact so our sun s rays only point upwards posted by amanda at 2 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art pretoddler toddler tuesday january 5 2010 shopping now that i have 2 kids one of the tougher jobs on my list is grocery shopping well shopping in general i have not yet mastered the art of managing two children one grocery cart a crowded grocery store checking off a list reading labels and keeping on budget while teetering oh too close to either a nap time or meal time don t get me wrong my girls are remarkably well behaved in the store even with a mom on the brink of a meltdown you may have seen me out and about you know the one answering the thousandth what s that question from a toddler while trying to see which items are on sale and removing the cart strap from the baby s mouth for the umpteenth time i may or may not be crying wink on a good day you ll see me humming to myself trying to enter in to my quiet place where i can actually remember what s on my list or where i put my list anyways so is it possible to learn and shop at the same time sure here s a few things you can do while you are out shopping to help your toddler or pre toddler learn have fun and possibly allow you to get some shopping done without having to resort to the quiet game for most of these it helps to have a shopping notebook set aside that you use especially for the store 1 stickers peeling stickers is a great fine motor activity chances are your child will does love stickers they don t have to be expensive either local dollar stores have a pretty good selection generally if you come prepared draw lines or shapes in a notebook and have them put the stickers on the lines shapes you ve drawn a little hand eye coordination work another sticker option is to call out body parts and let them stick them on put a sticker on your knee put a sticker on your elbow 2 pre printed lists this takes a little pre planning but is totally worth it at our house here are 2 options print off pictures of items needed i use google images cut and paste i also put them in order of the aisles at wal mart for example i know i start in the back of the store with dairy so all my dairy items are at the top you can then ask them what s next what s first what s last as you shop call out items on the list and have your child check them off or mark through them it will take them a little while to find them and then mark through them for older kids you won t need to call out anything just let them observe and check it off 3 coupon sorter get your coupons ready and as you get your item let them look through a stack and see if there is a coupon for that item 4 i spy this is a personal game not one they play with you draw or print off a picture of an item and glue it on the top of one page example a shirt then make a column of colors like a red shirt blue shirt green etc as they go through the store they have to see if they can find these things and then check them off as you wait in line help them finish off the list and see how many they ve gotten this is a good chance to work on colors observation and tallying for older kids see if they can find more challenging things like something sweet grumpy people happy people a kid with a toy a baby with a bottle etc 5 i got this idea from parenting magazine honk if you love or quack whatever choose a funny sound and an object whenever you see the object a teddy bear a circle a baby you both have to make the sound they ll be very focused on looking around and making the funny sounds it makes shopping fun for us 6 again from parenting posers in waiting both of you strike a pose and hold it until the line moves like making a face stand on one foot the person that stays still the longest gets to choose the next pose 7 can you find someone that has the same color shirt on as you someone with mommy s hair color someone with something in their cart the same as ours a mommy shopping with 2 kids like us 8 texture talk as you bag up your produce ask them questions do you see a food that looks bumpy how does this feel is this soft or hard you can even involve them in the process of choosing your food i m looking for bananas that have no brown on them can you find some bananas that don t have any brown or see how this apple has a little spot on it that feels soft we don t want that one check this apple and see if it looks good when we pick out a cantaloupe you can smell this part if we can smell cantaloupe it might be a good one do you smell anything 9 and finally the quiet game or the still game personal favorites of mine when you just need a moment pretty simple see how they can sit perfectly still or perfectly quiet aaaahhh how about for the babies talk talk talk tell them what you are doing what s on your list what you see happy shopping any tricks in your bag share posted by raegan at 12 00 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels child fine motor skills out and about pre toddler preschooler pretoddler sensory toddlers tried and true older posts home subscribe to posts atom linkwithin followers subscribe posts atom posts all comments atom all comments get email updates enter your email preview powered by feedblitz labels about us 7 alphabet 25 animals 8 apple 16 art 60 awards 4 babestotsandkids 1 baby 24 back to school 4 baking cooking 28 balls 1 bath 1 beach 2 beads 1 bears 1 bicycle 1 birds 1 blast from past 4 blog 7 book lists 22 book reviews 4 books 6 bubbles 2 building 1 butterfly 2 calendar 1 camping 1 candy 1 cars 3 caterpiller 3 cause and effect 2 chalk 1 chick 1 child 44 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