Cost: Free
Skills learned: Fine motor skills, colors, critical thinking skills (for particular egg cartons we used today, but as I said, this could be used to teach a wide variety of skills)
Age: 9m+
Rating (out of 4 stars): 3.5
We are super excited to share this activity with you. It is definitely one of our all time favorites and we will definitely be doing it again and adapting it as Izzy gets older. Okay, now to the activity... egg cartons! Now we don't go through a whole lot of eggs around here so the hardest part of the activity was actually collecting the egg cartons. I started collecting them about a month and a half ago and was able to come up with 4 beautiful cartons. My original plan was to just let him play with the egg cartons as is but at the last minute I decided to put some fun little toys and treasures into the cartons as you can see here: I used whatever I had on hand which included pipe cleaners, pom poms, twine, balls, bows, and Easter egg shakers. I super glued down the things I didn't want him playing with but allowed him to pull out the balls, bows, and Easter eggs. However, he was super determined and so he managed to pull out most of the other things too which meant that he played under super close supervision. However, he didn't mind too much and this was the perfect activity for his curious little one year old mind. As I said, I can see us doing this activity periodically as he gets older and adapting the materials we add to the egg cartons to his current skill level. I can see us doing this with different textures, shapes, colors, and then as he gets older using it to practice sorting and counting. As we do, we will be sure to keep you posted.
Cost: Free Skills learned: Fine motor skills, colors, critical thinking skills (for particular egg cartons we used today, but as I said, this could be used to teach a wide variety of skills) Age: 9m+ Rating (out of 4 stars): 3.5
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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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