Magnet Letters

We came up with this idea today when we had both the magna doodle and the magnet letters out. C had fun spelling her name, simple words and just putting letters on the magna doodle!

Quiet Box #5

Sort zip ties by size or color (found at Dollar Tree)

 Felt Cupcake

 Clothespins on a container

 Tickets through a slot

foam stars - sort by color or make patterns

 Foam animals

Magnet numbers

 Gar-animals dominoes

 bottle caps - sort by color and make patterns
(I made this for an Earth Day activity during my teaching days)

Brown Bear, Brown Bear puzzles (found at 1+1+1=1)

DIY Sticker Activity Book

C has a hard time staying still and quiet during church.  I think I finally found something that keeps her busy enough during her time in the pew (children only stay the first half of the service before they are dismissed for Children's Church) - a Sticker Activity Book! She loves stickers!!

All I used was a notebook, a pencil and those stickers C has in her collection.

Here are a few pictures of some of the pages. Some, you will see, she has worked on already...

 There are several pages reserved for certain types of stickers...

A few of them are...food, animals, sparkly, numbers, letters, smiles, stickers with words, etc.

Outline small, medium and large circles with stickers

 Put appropriate number of stickers in each circle or rectangle

 Draw lines to matching butterflies

 Sort stickers by color (there are 3 pages of this)

 Put stickers over the certain shapes. This could also be done with letters or numbers.

 Sorting stickers

Outline shapes

Sort by flowers, hearts and stars (she has tons of stickers of those shapes)

 Sorting stickers by if they are found in the air, on the land or in the water

 Fill in the missing letter and number

 Grouping stickers together that are the same

I also have a page where she can outline the letters of her name with stickers.

So, those are just a few of the pages I have came up with for the book. Anyone have any other ideas?

How about (simple, cheap, quiet, small) ideas for keeping a 14 month occupied who has a very short attention span? 

Easter Ideas

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Take an old shoe box and cut holes big enough for eggs to just fit through.

Easter Egg Memory - for this game I used foam blocks, but you could also use pom poms or any other small object you have 2 of. Since C is new to the game of memory, I only did 3 matches. But you can do more depending on the level of your child.

Sorting eggs by color in a painted egg carton

 J had fun just playing with the eggs and carton

Counting plastic eggs

Putting plastic eggs through a hole in an oatmeal container.

Eggs in a tissue box
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Using jelly bean cut outs to trace foam letters. We have other colors too. We sorted them and made patterns.

A few ideas from past posts

 

Mix and match eggs - match the egg to the picture

Paint using plastic eggs

Water painting with Easter Egg Coloring kit rollers

Hand print bunny cards

Tot School

We didn't do that much this week, or at least it doesn't feel like it. C was sick earlier in the week and J is still sick :(

 Before C got sick we took a walk around our yard looking for signs of spring. She used her own camera to take pictures of what we found (pictures shown are from my camera)

 She water painted with these little rollers that were in our Easter box. I am not sure where I got them. I am guessing from an egg dying kit I got several years ago.

 I made this simple math game using a cut up cereal box. I put the cards in a tissue box and she had to pull them out and tell me how many stickers there were. I made them into simple math problems because she is always asking me "what is 1 plus 2?" or "what is 2 plus 2?"

 I saw this idea on Make and Takes and made my own version. She had to pick the egg that matched the picture.

 She loves cutting. I gave her a piece of paper and just let her cut. Then she started to make a little man using her scraps. I thought it was pretty creative of her!

C is also starting to play and enjoy games. We found Candy Land at a rummage sale the other week, we have played it almost every day since. We also had fun playing this Peg People Game I created.