Skills learned: Gross motor/ball skills
Age: 15m+
Skills learned: Fine motor skills, counting, colors
Age: 18m+
Skills learned: Textures, creativity
Age: 18m+
I kind of skipped July's weekly activities but the majority of them were toy oriented rather than activity oriented so that partially explains why. The fact that Izzy and I are trying our hardest to finish up our summer bucket list before baby sister could be another part of the reason. However, we are getting back to our weekly activities for the month before baby sister does come and I take my activity maternity leave... seriously, its written down in my planner :) So on to this month's activities... Our first activity of the week is the slam dunk game. A couple of weeks ago I was looking over some milestone charts and feeling pretty good about Izzy's abilities, until we got to the part about ball skills. To help Izzy develop more of an interest in playing with balls, we decided to get a ball and a bucket and see what would happen. I was hoping he would try rolling the ball into the bucket but so far that hasn't happened. Instead, the majority of his time with this activity has been spent running around with the bucket on his head. He has dropped the ball in the bucket a few times though so we will count that as progress on the ball skill front. Cost: Free Skills learned: Gross motor/ball skills Age: 15m+ Our second activity of the week is beads in a paint palette. This is just another basic fine motor skill activity that you can use for colors and counting. The purpose was for Izzy to put one bead in each hole of a paint palette. Pretty basic but he has actually been pretty excited over this activity, probably because the beads we got brightly colored beads with fun textures. However, since beads are pretty small, I would not recommend doing this activity unless you can trust your little one not to swallow the beads and you are willing to supervise very closely. Cost: $4 Skills learned: Fine motor skills, counting, colors Age: 18m+ Our last activity of the week is a smaller version of the treasure baskets we used to do. Although we stopped doing treasure baskets when he was 18 months old since the most beneficial age to do them is 6-18 months, we decided to make a little toddler busy bag that was reminiscent of one of our old treasure baskets. We decided to focus this busy bag on talking about textures so we included a variety of textures as you can see here: We included a soft duck, a hard paint palette, a pokey play tree, a rubbery measuring cup, a squishy pencil thing, a bristly paint brush, and a rough piece of glittery paper. Izzy has enjoyed going through his bag and experiencing the different textures. He especially likes giving the duck kisses and popping the measuring cup in and out. You could tailor your busy bag to include items centered around any theme you wanted but we thought that textures would be a fun place to start. Cost: Free (we used items we already had)
Skills learned: Textures, creativity Age: 18m+
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AuthorHi! My name is Cassity and I am the mom to a little 2 year old boy named Izzy and a baby girl named Sydney. I am lucky enough to get to be a stay-at-home mom to them and we have fun thinking of new activities to do together in the afternoons. We created this blog as an opportunity to share those activities with you. Archives
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