fine motor

Our Let­ter B Themed Trays
Here is a closer look:


Bird 3 and 4 piece puz­zle for my tod­dler Aaliya.


Bee match­ing from File Folder Fun


Match­ing the right col­ored bear to the pattern.


I hid some small dragonflies(bugs) in the sen­sory pom pom tub.


Feed the frog the flies.
I printed this from online but I cant find the URL (my printer seems to have faded that part out)


Bus puz­zle for my preschooler.
This is the first Melissa and Doug item that I have been really dis­ap­pointed in. The puz­zle pieces were so hard to get apart and the backs kept rip­ping. I am now very hes­i­tant to buy any more Melissa & Doug puzzles.


Deen set this tray out him­self. He said he would like to trans­fer the beans from two big bowls.


Add the right amount of lady­bugs to each of the leaves.

This post is linked to Montes­sori Mon­days and Sun Schol­ars.

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 Aaliya is 2 years and 2 months oldAaliya did some bead work & made her­self her first bracelet. We used pipe clean­ers so the beads wouldn’t fall off.Then I had her pick up the beads with the tongs. Sur­pris­ingly, she picked up every sin­gle bead until her tray was clean. She then dumped it out and did it all over again. She seems to have a great atten­tion span and good concentration.

After she made her first bracelet she then tried using a tweezer to pick up the beads. This is such a great fine motor activity.

I have started let­ter of the week with both Deen and Aaliya and here she is glu­ing her apples to her lower case A.

I had Deen help me make glue with water and flour.

 Aaliya really enjoyed her Princess Tot Pack.  I didn’t get a pic­ture of her col­or­ing her princesses and play­ing with the princess color match activ­ity. I had her use the princess color match activ­ity as a mem­ory game.

She did extremely well with the princess shapes. She could name every sin­gle shape except hexa­gon and cres­cent. She said the cres­cent was a banana. That was such a great laugh for the day.

In the evening, Deen tested her on her shapes.

I love these sweet brother and sis­ter moments.

To see more tot school activ­i­ties please visit 1+1+1=1

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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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& Preschool">Activities We Did In February Tot School & Preschool

March 1, 2011

Activ­i­ties Aaliya did this week: Aaliya is 21 months old She used our ani­mal stamps for the first time. Her facial expres­sion on the pic­ture on the right melts my heart… I intro­duced her to this peg activ­ity and it was a hit! She loves these fine motor type of activ­i­ties and this really works her […]

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Toddler Tuesday: Pasta and An Empty Water Bottle

October 19, 2010

I gave Aaliya a bowl of uncooked pasta, an empty water bot­tle, and me there to watch that she doesn’t swal­low any­thing and she con­cen­trated on this activ­ity for 30 min­utes straight. She loved putting all the pasta pieces into the bot­tle then clos­ing the lid and shak­ing it up to hear the musi­cal sound […]

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Ladybug Cut and Paste Activity + Printable

February 16, 2010
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I made a Lady­bug Cut and Paste Print­able activ­ity for Deen and my read­ers today. This activ­ity can be made eas­ier or harder depend­ing on your child’s age. I’ve included 3 pages to this activ­ity. The first page is for the youngest kids, just cut and have them place the spots wher­ever they want on […]

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Tot School

July 23, 2009

Deen is 30 months old (2 1/2)We started tot school this week and had a lot of fun… We did some bead thread­ing with Pipe clean­ers (I think thats what the blue thing is called but im not sure hehe)I’ve been recently try­ing to work on fine motor skills.We ended up mak­ing a bracelet out of […]

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