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Shapes – Gluing
We did some more gluing. I cut up some different sizes and colour rectangles and triangles out of paper. I used the glue sponge again for Derek to use to glue the shapes. I had to keep reminding him to put glue. We talked about […]
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Paper Rainbow
We did some more gluing today. I printed out a rainbow template and wrote the colours using crayon so Derek would know where to glue the matching paper. He matched a few coloured paper correctly and then had fun just sprinkling the coloured paper so […]
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Matching Worksheets
Derek was doing some colouring in a colouring book this morning and came across one of the worksheet pages where you draw a line to match pictures. I showed him how to do it and he asked for more. I remembered I had bought these […]
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Counting Bear – Board game
We attempted to play a simple board game that I found online using the counting bears. The object of the game is to roll the coloured bear dice and move your bear to that coloured circle and first one to the end wins. Obviously I […]
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Sorting Bears
We started out by sorting the bears by size. This only lasted a minute or two. Derek got silly and kept mixing up the sizes of the bears even though he knew he was wrong and found it funny. He also filled and dumped the […]
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Bear Positions
This activity was not intentionally planned but I went with Derek’s lead and it involved into learning about positioning. I had planned for him to roll a dice and match bears but he was clearly not interested. He wanted to sort by colour and put […]
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Counting Bears
We borrowed this counting bear set so this was the first time Derek has used the tweezers that come with the set. I decided to keep the activity simple so he could get practice using the tweezers. He knows all his colours and is pretty […]
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Milk Rainbow
Derek helped me pour milk into three pie tins and add a few drops of food colouring to each. You could only use one tin or any shallow dish you have and as little or as much food colouring as you want. You only need […]
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Bubble Art
The following link is the video where I got the idea for today’s activity and to show you how it is supposed to be done. It was a big fail. The ends of the towel were getting in the coloured water and just dripping everywhere. […]
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Homemade Chalk Paint
Thanks MNS EarlyON for the activity. We mixed equal parts cornstarch and water and a few drops of food colouring to make the paint. We took it outside and had fun painting, dripping and dumping the paint.