Educational Activities


I cre­ated a zoo ani­mal themed visual per­cep­tion activ­ity that can be re-used by lam­i­nat­ing or printed once off.

Mom basi­cally places the zoo ani­mals in cer­tain cir­cles and the child can then copy the place­ment on their own cir­cle mat.

Here I lam­i­nated the cir­cle mats and the pieces. I then had Aaliya copy it.

Here I just printed it out and had her glue them in the right places.

To down­load the print­able click here.

If you would like to see a sim­i­lar activ­ity but for an older child please let me know in the com­ments section.

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Aaliya is 2 years and 2 months old(26 months old)We did the rest of our let­ter A activ­i­ties this week.
Carissa’s Tot School Print­able Let­ter A Activ­i­ties were a big hit!
This was Aaliya’s first time trac­ing a line and con­nect­ing two objects to each other.

She enjoyed eras­ing the marks more though!
Aaliya is really good with lacing.

I called out shapes to her and she pointed to the right shapes except Cres­cent and Hexa­gon. She calls a Dia­mond, “Like a dia­mond” because of twin­kle twin­kle lit­tle star.

She loved hav­ing her pic­ture taken. She was con­stantly ask­ing me to take pic­tures of her.

I cut out the apple col­or­ing pic­tures and had her match the crayons to the color listed on the apple.

Here she is choos­ing red from the col­ors. I was very impressed by this!

On the left pic­ture Aaliya is con­firm­ing that she chose the right color… yellow.



Aaliya loves this shapes file folder game. It’s easy for her but she likes call­ing out the shapes when she places them on the folder.
I can’t remem­ber where I down­loaded it from though.


I finally had time to make the Color Wheel Tot Tool. I printed out the pdf and lam­i­nated it. I then printed out a sec­ond copy, cut out the cir­cles with a hole punch, lam­i­nated it and placed them on clothespins.

This was def­i­nitely tough for her but she enjoyed the challenge.

I took out a few puz­zles and observed Aaliya as she did the puz­zles. I was try­ing to fig­ure out what types of puz­zles she can do and what types of puz­zles to buy. One piece puz­zles like the Win­nie The Pooh one above are too easy. She can def­i­nitely do a puz­zle with mul­ti­ple pieces.

This was a very enjoy­able Tot School week!
To see what oth­ers did in Tot School this week check out this post at the 1+1+1=1 blog

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Benefits of Building Blocks

March 10, 2011
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Aaliya’s favorite toy right now is def­i­nitely her blocks. At 21 months old she can stack up to 9 blocks. It takes a lot of con­cen­tra­tion… And when it falls… she gig­gles. Then she starts again. (My white bal­ance is ALWAYS weird when­ever I take pic­tures in the toy room.) I’ve read some­where that build­ing blocks […]

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Tot School and Monster Tot Pack

December 2, 2009

Today we used Carissa’s Mon­ster Tot Pack which is avail­able for free here at Carissa’s Site 1+1+1=1. Her blog is always full of fun ideas and she has some great print­able activ­i­ties. I printed them out on card­stock, cut them out and then put them into a ziplock bag First Deen matched the let­ter colors […]

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Ah! Ants in our rice!

November 24, 2009

Dur­ing Hal­loween I pur­chased some “ants” and used them for this activ­ity. They look SO real though! When my hus­band came home I put one next to his food… *smiles devi­ously*… so he sug­gested that we put one on his mom’s food when we go to eat by her… it should be funny! but any­way.… Deen […]

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Tot School and Learning through love

November 18, 2009

We had a lot of fun with my bingo col­ors print­able. When I brought the bingo chips and color cards out Deen imme­di­ately matched the chips to their col­ors… smart think­ing on his part.There­after we played bingo with the color cards… Deen won! Then we did my food cut and paste activ­ity that I put up […]

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A Fun Cut and Paste Printable

November 12, 2009
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This activ­ity was inspired by the Kumon first work books. Deen was doing the cut and paste activ­i­ties in his Kumon work­book and seemed to really enjoy it. The only prob­lem was that we were get­ting through the pages really quickly and it would be too expen­sive to pur­chase another book. I decided to try […]

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Bingo Colors Printable

November 10, 2009
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I wanted to help Deen learn his col­ors while still hav­ing fun. I do believe in “learn­ing through play” which is when I decided to cre­ate a Bingo Col­ors game. We haven’t had a chance to use it since Deen took an extra long nap today but we will def­i­nitely make use of it tomorrow. […]

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Pumpkin Skills Activity

October 29, 2009

For today’s Hal­loween related activ­ity we prac­ticed on pin­cer grasp and hand eye coor­di­na­tion.(I was actu­ally doing this activ­ity for open ended art but I didn’t link up to open ended art because it was too struc­tured to be con­sid­ered open ended art.) Mate­ri­als needed: Printed pump­kins on paper, food col­or­ing, med­i­cine drop­per, and some water. Deen […]

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Paper Clips Sorting and Baking for Daddy

August 23, 2009

We sorted out paper clips by color… We did this bak­ing activ­i­tiy on Wednes­day for his Daddy’s Birth­day (Happy Birth­day Daddy! from Deen.)I held it back to Sun­day so that we could par­tic­i­pate in Sim­ply Made Sun­day. The mix was SOOOO yummy I think I ate Deen ate the equiv­a­lent of one cup­cake!(hey, I wasn’t the […]

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