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Pattern Blocks w/Play Dough
Used the pattern blocks to make shapes in the play dough. Then we hid the blocks in the play dough to find. Lots of fine motor work with this activity as well as identifying shapes. Got daddy and uncle involved in playing too. After a […]
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Shape Matching Eggs
This was one of the things Derek got in his Easter basket. This kept him busy for about 10 minutes trying to match the shapes. His go too is to match by colour but after a bit of reminder that we were doing shapes he […]
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Painting Rocks
Derek enjoys painting and liked painting the rocks. His favorite part was putting glitter on the rocks. This was done with washable kid paint so we will see how the right is hold up when we take them outside.
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Spring Sensory
The intention was to have a sensory bin of farm/spring related items out for Derek to explore. Things included were shredded paper, plastic eggs, stuffed animals and play food. All in the farm/spring theme. Derek wasn’t really into it until I brought out the little […]
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Matching Coloured Egg Cards
Matching coloured egg cards. We started out by matching plastic eggs to the coloured egg cards. This didn’t really get Derek attention. We then switched to just matching the cards and this went better. Needed to give Derek some help in finding the card that […]
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Plastic Eggs & Spoon – Water Play
Practiced scooping the eggs into the tray. Derek then discovered he could open the eggs and fill them with water and the water will pour out the little holes. Also we noticed that the eggs with water are heavier and harder to scoop up. I […]
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Painting A Bird House
Bird house built courtesy of OPA. Derek couldn’t stop asking about the bird house as he knew we were going to be painting the bird house today. Derek enjoyed painting the bird house. He kept talking about the bird that may live there and how […]
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Hidden Colour – Science
Hide some food colouring under baking soda and let you little scientist find them by using vinegar. Though this wasn’t a long activity, Derek enjoyed it and liked seeing what happened. It was a bit slow using the spoon. We abandoned the spoon and just […]
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Colour Collage
Pick a coloured paper and glue items and glitter of chosen colour onto the paper. Let dry and continue if interest allows. Derek wasn’t very interested in today’s activity. He needed some encouragement to continue and add more to his picture and didn’t want to […]
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Colour Sorting Sensory
Fill a bin with items of different colours. Put stickers on an ice cube tray or egg carton and then sort the items by colour. The colour sorting part itself didn’t last long but Derek ended up having more fun just randomly playing with the […]