As soon as my toddler got comfortable with sorting, I introduced her to matching. She loves matching activities and everyday she asks for one. According to her it is called memory game. Still I am figuring out how she got that name. 1. Animal matching This is the first matching activity we did. I took …
I was planning for a long time to let my toddler create contact paper sun catcher. Since we are doing Easter activities as of now, I cut out an egg shape from the contact paper to decorate with tissue paper. It suddenly struck me to use the uncut portion of the contact paper as a …
I love activities which are very easy to set up but fun for my toddler. This activity is one of them. She is working on her fine motor skill too. Materials needed: 1. Cup 2. Kitchen towel 3. Hair band 4. Tooth picks 5. A container to hold the tooth picks Cover the mouth …
Today I am sharing few games that I played with my 8 year old when she was young. The best part of these games are they don’t absolutely need anything to play with. We have started playing few of these games with my toddler. Most of these simple games can be played while waiting or …
We have used vegetable mesh bag for painting and to develop problem solving skills. This time we used for fine motor skill, hand eye coordination and tripod grasp. Materials needed: 1. Vegetable mesh bag 2. Two bowls 3. Beans 4. Tape Cover one of the bowls with the mesh bag. Tape it on the sides of …
Today I am sharing a game that requires a very easy setup. The materials required for this game are very easily available at home – a dowel, two chairs and half a dozen of cloth hangers. As I said, the set up is very simple. Connect the chairs using the dowel. Invite the child to …
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This simple and fun activity kept my toddler busy for more than 10 minutes. I tore newspaper into pieces and put them into a vegetable mesh bag. I encouraged my daughter to take out the paper from the bag. Initially she tried to make the paper fall. But the bag had a long neck and …
My 2 year old counts everything whenever she sees more than one of the same object. So I thought she might enjoy this simple fun game. I was right! Materials needed: 1. Dice 2. Masking tape 3. Beans 4. Vegetable steamer 5. Sharpie Preparation: 1. Counting up to six is way behind my daughter’s current …
We used Montessori at home with my seven year old till she was around five, when she was going to Montessori school. After she moved to traditional school for kindergarten, we moved to traditional method. We love Montessori and she still learns fast with materials rather than with concepts alone. We do not have any …
I was thinking that my toddler might not enjoy watercolor like tempera paint. We needed blue and green color paint for this project (Obviously). We did not have liquid watercolor or food coloring in blue. I had to give her crayola watercolor which needs to mixed with water. But, to my surprise, she enjoyed the …