Build math skills while you track your child’s height.  • construction paper • four pieces of 8½” by 11″ cardboard • colored duct tape or fabric tape • stickers, stamps, or other art materials • 12 inches of ribbon or string • glue • ruler  Discuss the concept of measurement. Show your child a ruler and invite him to share […]
Build a scrapbook to help children learn the Alphabet and associate pictures and ideas with particular letters. Â You will need a lot of pictures from newspapers, magazines, catalogs, online, etc. Also a scrapbook is required, either 8.5″ x 11″ or 12″ x 12″ with 27 pages (so that each letter can be made into […]
 This activity helps toddlers as well as preschoolers learn, recognize and categorize the ABC’s.  To help children recognize letters, and match like pairs. Also for the children to recognize upper and lower case letters.  Create sheets of paper listing the entire alphabet – you can do upper or lower case, depending on […]
1 to 3 Years Old  Between their first and second birthdays, children  § Are energetic, busy and curious; § Are self-centered; § Like to imitate the sounds and actions of others (for example, by repeating words that parents and others say and by pretending to do housework or yard work with adults); § […]
Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. (Author), John Archambault (Author), Lois Ehlert (Illustrator). In this bright and lively rhyme, the letters of the alphabet race each other to the top of the coconut tree. When X, Y, and Z finally scramble up the trunk, however, the weight is too much, and down […]
 Try this fun, open-ended three-dimensional activity. Children will love experimenting with the various ways to use the materials.  To reinforce fine motor skills To promote hand-eye coordination To encourage cooperative play To encourage tactile exploration   Before You Start: You will need smooth and pliable air-dry clay, paper plates (or trays), various […]
For our stART project this week, we read The Eency Weency Spider and made bottle top spiders. My kids LOVE this book because it is musical and you can push a button and sing along as you read the book. It is about ten little spiders who creatively find ways to get up the waterspout. […]
This project is one that came to me after we were left with an overabundance of packing material from some Christmas deliveries. I hate to throw that stuff away when I know I can use it for something else. So here is our recycled snowman. Cut out the silhouette of a snowman from a piece […]
