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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 their ladybug.

The sec­ond page requires more con­cen­tra­tion and pre­ci­sion. You want them to place the dots on the white spot as best as they can.

And the third page is if you have a child like mine who wants more spots! :)

Click here to download/print this activity.

Print the page that you would like to use or print them all.

I sug­gest print­ing on “Fast Nor­mal” to min­imise on ink usage.

The one on the left is printed as “Fast Draft”. It uses the least ink but the pic­ture doesn’t look very nice. The one on the right is printed on “Fast Nor­mal” and the col­ors look great.


I then cut out my cir­cles with my 1″ scrap­book cir­cle hole punch(it made this so quick and easy!). If you would like to prac­tice on your child’s cut­ting skills here would be the time to give them a pair of scis­sors and have them cut the cir­cles out as best as they can.

Then glue the dots to the ladybug.

After we were done with this activ­ity Deen had fun cut­ting out extra cir­cles by himself


I hope you find this print­able fun and use­ful for your child. :) Enjoy!

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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 to the mon­ster of the same color.


Then he matched the same mon­sters to each other.

He really enjoyed match­ing the mon­ster spots but I think match­ing may be too easy for him now because he does it really quick. My main focus though on this is for him to con­cen­trate and actu­ally LOOK at all the options. Deen doesn’t have the best con­cen­tra­tion and some­times he just skims things over so this activity’s goal for me was to make him more aware of ALL the pieces.

We did the mon­ster puz­zle together

and played a quick game of memory.


We wrapped up the activ­ity with the big to small activ­ity. Deen can eas­ily iden­tify which mon­ster is the biggest and which is the small­est but the ones in between is what he needs to work on.

Deen is 32 months old.

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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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Printable — Fruit and Vegetable Cards

August 20, 2009
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Please link me if you use it in Tot school or just as an activ­ity, I’d love to see! I made some Fruit and Veg­etable cat­e­gory cards that I’m sure will be very use­ful. There are 5 pages (2 pages each of Fruits and Veg­eta­bles and 1 instruc­tion page). Print the pages, cut out, laminate […]

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New Printable — Food Pyramid

August 19, 2009
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I’ve added a food pyra­mid print­able here. There are 4 pages: page 1 — instruc­tions page 2 — food cli­part and labels page 3 — blank pyra­mid page 4 — com­pleted pyra­mid Teach your chil­dren about the food pyra­mid by show­ing them where each item goes. Kids or mom can cut the food pieces and place […]

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Tot school — Week 3

August 19, 2009

Deen is 30 months old This week at Tot School: Deen arranged his new count­ing bears accord­ing to color He played with his new play dough toy. This thing is so cool! I loved how I Deen could make a bil­lion dif­fer­ent shapes, small snakes, spaghetti, and so much more! We used our home­made play dough […]

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Free Printables — Color Theme

August 16, 2009
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I’ve decided to start offer­ing some free print­a­bles to my read­ers. I have found print­able pages so help­ful on other blogs and would love to share some I’ve made with you. Thank you Susana at Our Home­school Fun for help­ing me fig­ure out how to get my print­a­bles online. The first one is for cutting […]

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Activities Deen did this week

August 8, 2009

We played with the mar­ble run blocks. This was a new toy I bought him and such a great pur­chase! I’ve never seen him more focused before and he used the mar­ble run every­day since the day we bought it for about 2 hours at a time… Deen played with play-doh by squish­ing it into the […]

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Open Ended Art — Yellow Collage

July 30, 2009

Deen really enjoyed Open Ended Art today… He loves to glue and paste!!I cut the yel­low items for him since he is still learn­ing how to cut. Then I placed the yel­l­low items in a yel­low bag, he emp­tied the bag, saw the glue stick and started off on his col­lage before I could even […]

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Story Telling The Very Hungry Caterpillar

July 25, 2009

After being inspired by the Explo­rations blog I down­loaded these fruit piece for the very hun­gry cater­pil­lar. I printed it out on card­stock, lam­i­nated it and then cut holes in each piece. We used a fuzzy pipe cleaner to be the cater­pil­lar and as I read the book Deen threads the cater­pil­lar through the hole […]

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