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Shadow Tracing for Preschoolers
We took advantage of a sunny day and had lots of fun tracing shadows outside.
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Fine Motory Skills Practice: Pencil and Nuts
It’s amazing to watch how quickly children learn. When Alex does this activity first time, he uses both hands to save his little structure from collapsing. But after a few goes, he effortlessly builds a really high tower.
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Art Activity: Paint on Ice
It was so much fun to paint on ice! When boys stopped painting for a bit, water from melting ice run washing all the paint away and they were presented with blank canvases again.
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Missing Number Math Activity for Kids
Max is looking for missing numbers with pegs. Some children just remember number sequence as a poem, but this activity challenges them to get a better understanding of numbers.
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Math Number Quantity Activity for Preschoolers
This is a quick fun activity we did to reinforce Max's understanding of the value of each number. We used play dough and toothpicks.
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Letter Recognition: Words Activity
Max loved clothes pins activity last time, so I made this simple activity for him today. By now, he is quite familiar with his name letters, but have a look how good he is with more challenging words. I do not know where he learns all that.
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Letter Recognition: Name Activity
Max loves this simple letter recognition activity covering letters from his name with clothes pins.
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Name Recognition Activity Using Tape
Thank you for your suggestions and comments to my videos. I do read them and here is the result. A new activity for name recognition, but this time Max's name is not all in capitals. Max is sticking tape over letters of his name.
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Name Recognition Activity Using Beans
This activity focuses on recognition of a child’s very own name. It’s very special to them and they feel so proud to be able to recognise or even spell it. You can use anything you have at home to cover letters, like, stickers, stones or...
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How to Teach Numbers to Preschoolers
This car parking number activity had a huge success with my transport-obsessed 3-year-old Max so much so we practised counting in two languages. I cut labels to make small stickers with dots. On a plain piece of paper I numbered parking...
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How to Make Your Own Books
For about a week Alex was making books. We have plenty of them now. One book is about everything mommy loves. There is an educational one with tests, tracing and colouring tasks. But my favourite is a cookbook with a recipe how to make a...
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How to Make Colours Appear from Words
How cool is this activity with magically appearing colours from words! You would need regular markers, a permanent black marker, paper towel and water.
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Fine Motor Skills Activity: Nuts and Bolts
Nuts and bolts aren’t something you would first think to offer your kid to play with. But they are great for developing fine motor skills and just super fun.
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How to Make a Balancing Butterfly
We have made a butterfly with Max from a piece of hard paper that can balance on a tip of a pencil. Now Max is looking for magnets to explain why it doesn't fall.
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Science Experiment: Hot and Cold Air
Heating up the air inside a plastic bottle with hot water and then cooling it down with cold to see how balloon reacts.
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Scissors Activity: Haircuts
This is simple and fun cutting activity for preschoolers or toddlers. Using scissors a child can make different haircuts.
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Science Experiment: Water and Plastic Bottles
Experimenting with plastic bottles, straws and water
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How to Make a Catapult with Popsicle Sticks
Today we made easy-to-make catapults from popsicle sticks and rubber bands for hours of fun. When I showed this catapult to Max for the first time he was very excited to play with it as it looked like an aeroplane. He was a bit...
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Art Activity: Blow Paint
Another way to paint for my young artist Alex - Blow Painting!
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Math Activity for Preschoolers: Addition and Subtraction Matching
You'll need pegs, marker and paper to make this activity.
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Art Activity: Spinning Top with Marker and CD
We have made a spinning top from a marker and an CD for this art project. Science lovers will appreciate how we can actually track the motion of the spinning tops.
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Making a Number Ordering Game
Another creative way to use straws in a fun ordering number game.
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Number Matching Activity for Toddlers
This fun matching activity can be easily adapted to any child. Max continues matching numbers with dots.
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Fingerprint Counting Activity for Preschoolers
This fun activity is based on a fact that children instinctively count things using their fingers.