Toddler Activities

Pencil Sharpening and Paper Clip Colors

January 16, 2010

This is how I pre­sented the pen­cil sharp­en­ing activ­ity. For adults and older kids this may seem easy but for an almost 3 year old this can be dif­fi­cult.You have to bal­ance the pen­cil and hold a good enough grip in order to rotate the pen­cil. I gave Deen the flat side to sharpen after […]

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Open ended art — Paper Mosaics

September 10, 2009

For Open Ended art today I cut up paper using a wavy scis­sor and gave Deen the pieces along with paper and a glue stick. Here is when he decided he was done… Since he left the room I decided to just fin­ish it up for myself (hey it didnt look done to me…) I didn’t make it […]

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Golf ball fishing and Rice Hiding

September 9, 2009

It was a nice hot day here in South Africa so we did some water play. I put some kids golf balls(and other light balls) in some water and Deen used a tea strainer to fish for the balls. That proved to be really easy for him so I then gave him a salad spoon… thing […]

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Folded Butterfly

September 8, 2009

Mate­ri­als: Paint, Paint Brushes, Paper Draw the but­ter­fly body. It isn’t nec­es­sary to draw the wings, I just did it because I wasn’t sure how it would turn out with­out the wings so I tried it both ways. Paint one side of the wing. Fold and press on the part where the paint is so that the […]

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Colored Salt Butterflycolore

September 5, 2009

The col­ored salt but­ter­fly activ­ity is a great activ­ity that is not only sensory(since the tex­ture of the salt is rough on fin­gers) it is also great for fine motor skills. Mate­ri­als Needed: Col­ored Salt, But­ter­fly Col­or­ing Page, Qtips), Glue. I printed a But­ter­fly col­or­ing page that I found online on cardstock(Any thick paper would […]

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Colorful Paper Chain

September 4, 2009

The beauty of child­hood is the power of imag­i­na­tion. Some­thing this sim­ple can be so many things to a child… Here it is fly­ing as Deen turns around and around… UH OH! The lion is gonna catch me!!!Hang the paper chain in your child’s room or toy room for a bright dec­o­ra­tion.What have you used […]

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Animal Bookmarks

August 31, 2009

Mate­ri­als needed: Hard paper (like pas­tel board or card­stock), scis­sors, glue, pen, goo­gly eyes(optional) Draw the ani­mal faces on the appro­pri­ate col­ors (sorry these 2 pics are blurry!). You can also print these from free cli­part online. Cut them out (since Deen is still young I did the draw­ing and cut­ting for him but for […]

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Make your own Food Picks and Muffin Tin Monday Circus

August 31, 2009

Here is my muf­fin tin for todays Cir­cus Theme. Mon­days have been such a busy day for us that I hardly have time to cre­ate my muf­fin tins. For those of you who do not know how to make their own food picks here is how: I printed out some free cir­cus clip art that I found […]

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Make A Volcano

August 28, 2009

Mate­ri­als Needed: Sand(its in the red dish), fun­nel, 2 glass or plas­tic bottles(i used 1 glass bot­tle and one pour­ing cup), red food col­or­ing, vine­gar, bicar­bon­ate of soda, blue paper plate ( i didnt have a blue one) Don’t for­get the eager child! Mix some red food col­or­ing with vine­gar in the pour­ing cup. Add some bicarbonate […]

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A Snowy Winter Scene

August 27, 2009

Since win­ter is almost over here we cre­ated a win­ter scene… (although we don’t get snow unfor­tu­nately).I found a tuto­r­ial for mak­ing this online but I com­pletely for­got to save which web­site I found it from. How do you guys organ­ise which project came from which web­site? Any­way, heres how we did it: Mate­ri­als: Green colored […]

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