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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Matching
Found these cute alphabet cards online that matched the story. Printed and laminated them for Derek to play with. I had him match uppercase to uppercase and lowercase to lowercase. He did the uppercase well and matched them all. He then lost interest part way […]
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Paint
We followed up yesterday’s activity by doing a craft today. I painted Derek’s feet and hands and turned them into a tree. Then once it was dry I had Derek add some letter stickers to make it look like the tree from the story. He […]
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree
This is Derek’s favorite book so I made him a tree to go with the story. I made the tree out of soup cans and some paper. With the metal of the cans we were able to use magnetic letters. This way the letters would […]
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Indoor Toddler Obstacle Course
When its May but still too cold to play outside you improvise by creating an Indoor obstacle course to keep your toddler busy.
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Dandelion – Play Dough
Thank you MNS EarlyON Group for the recipe and demonstration for this awesome dandelion play dough. We had lots of fun picking the dandelions and making the play dough. This was definitely a different way to make play dough then I have ever done. It […]
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Flashlight Alphabet
Took a toilet paper roll, covered one end with cling wrap and secured it with an elastic. Then with a permanent marker I wrote a letter on the cling wrap (make sure what you write is backwards) I then placed the roll over the flashlight […]
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Alphabet iSpy
I got the idea from another mom on a Facebook group. I put alphabet stickers all over the page and had Derek look for them. He knows most of his uppercase letters and could identify most of them on the page. Though it was harder […]
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Dabber Dots
Do a dot lines. Last time I tried to do an activity like this without do a dot markers it didn’t go over so well. I found a DIY for do a dot markers witch actually worked out pretty well. You fill a bottle with […]
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Following The Lines
My intention for this activity was to place blocks to follow the lines. I thought this activity was a bust when Derek had other ideas. He wanted to just play with the blocks but wasn’t that interested for very long. Then he got the idea […]
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Sticker Lines
The goal is to cover the lines with stickers. This works on fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. This is also a good pre writing activity as they learn to follow lines. Whenever I’m working with stickers, I always make sure to remove the […]