Skills learned: Fine motor skills, counting
Age: 15m+
Skills learned: Fine motor skills, pouring, colors, counting
Age: 18m+
Skills learned: Rhythm, music
Age: 9m+
Our first activity of the week was a clothespin poke. For this activity, I took an old egg carton and cut out the bottoms of each egg home place (whatever you want to call it). When this is done, the holes are the perfect size for poking clothespins through. We tried poking them through with the carton upside down and then with it open and right side up. Izzy preferred to just play with the egg carton itself, but since this activity needs to last us a while, I couldn't let him do that for too long. For durability reasons, I would definitely try to get a cardboard egg carton rather than the Walmart styrofoam ones. Cost: $2 Skills learned: Fine motor skills, counting Age: 15m+ The second activity was pouring buttons. We initially thought about using pompoms, but since they were in Izzy's room and he was asleep while I was setting up these activities, we just used the buttons from our toddler sorting tray last week. For this activity, you just need two cups and some small items such as pompoms or craft buttons that your little one can pour from one cup to another. Or Izzy also liked pouring out the buttons and then just picking them up and putting them back in the cups by hand. Cost: $2 Skills learned: Fine motor skills, pouring, colors, counting Age: 18m+ Our last activity of the week had to do with noise makers which was supposed to focus on music and rhythm. We recycled materials we already had on hand. First we used an old pill bottle with some pennies in it to make a shaker. Then we took some corrugated cardboard and rubbed a spoon across the surface to make a cool sound. The last thing we did was take an old formula can and use our spoon to make it into a little drum. He caught on to all of these different inventions right away and enjoyed making his own little baby music. Cost: Free
Skills learned: Rhythm, music Age: 9m+
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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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