Opportunities to sort with your toddler will often pop up without any planning (and often it is the most meaningful). Instead of sorting the monkeys by color into a tray or piles, sort them as you hang them. Hanging the monkeys with their same colored friends instantly becomes a game. Your toddler …
Stamp sets can be so much fun to get creative with! Create a scene, tell a story, or just decorate any way you want. Learning with stamps is really easy and fun. Stamp the Pattern – Stamp a pattern and have your child use the stamps to continue the pattern. For example, crown, princess, crown, …
To celebrate Spring, we dove into this Spring Sorting activity by sorting birds into their nests by different colors and by size. This sorting activity is a great way for little learners to work on color recognition and a perfect activity for basic matching skills. How to Make the Nests The nests were …
Start saving your bottle tops and lids! There are so many ways you can have fun learning with bottle tops! From fine motor skills and counting to shapes and letters, these activities can work with any concept that you and your little ones are working on. Here are a few to get you started: 1 …
These learning activities with Legos are sure to be a hit with your preschoolers! Today N (2.5) and I sorted our Legos by color. Afterwards, we stacked each color and counted to see which color had the most. I also found fabulous Lego Learning Printables at Geocities. The printables include patterning, graphing, and counting …
Around our house, we are just in love with these squeezy food packets and we love learning with lids! They come in so many flavors, they are low mess, and I don’t have to worry about glass breaking or packing a spoon. Oh, and the lids provide some super awesome learning experiences! I started out …
I purchased these mini storage containers. (10 for $1) I brought them home and explored the possibilities and came up with Toddler Activities Using Containers. Our shape for the week is a square, so I chose this shape for us to count. How many orange squares are in the container? How many blue squares? LM would take them …
I love, love, love creating new activities and games for M. She’s almost 5 but still loves tonging and tweezing, sorting and grouping. Last week, I gave myself a challenge. I call it, “The Dollar Store Challenge.” Clever, huh? My (self-imposed) rule was to come out with as many activities as possible for only a …
Easter Egg Activities, including this sorting activity using plastic eggs for your toddler or preschooler. Yesterday, I shared a Toddler Color Matching Activity. I also picked up a bag of smaller plastic eggs for sorting. You can sort them by: Size – big/small (pictured above) Color – putting the matching color inside of the bigger egg …
Sorting is such an important skill for young children. Use this color sorting printable to sort and talk about different colors in a fun way. I’ve been working with N (24 months) on sorting and colors. I made this activity using the colors of the rainbow to use on our new magnetic white …
Same/Different Christmas Sort (printable) Day 17 – Activity Advent Countdown Print the Same and Different Christmas sorting page. Cut the pieces apart and have fun sorting!
You can get your kids involved in household chores by asking them to sort different things. This has been a brilliant discovery for me. You can keep your kids entertained, learning, and helping all at the same time! So far we’ve tried sorting: Socks (brown/black, colors/white, big/small) Silverware (forks/spoons, B’s silverware/ours) Towels (big/small, by color) …