Cutting with scissors is one of the pre-handwriting skills. It gives practice to thumb, fore finger and middle finger. It also strengths the hand muscles. My toddler loves to use scissors. She loved cutting aluminium foil which was a different experience for her. I cut the foil into thin strips. That is the only set …
I love activities which are very easy to set up but fun for my toddler. This activity is one of them. She is working on her fine motor skill too. Materials needed: 1. Cup 2. Kitchen towel 3. Hair band 4. Tooth picks 5. A container to hold the tooth picks Cover the mouth …
Hi Everyone, When my daughter was showing interest to learn hand sewing, this was the first activity we did. This simple activity taught her making stitches and knots. Materials needed : 1. Hair rubber band 2. Felt 3. Needle 4. Thread 5. Button 6. Scissors 7. Copier paper Method : Step 1 : My daughter …
We have used vegetable mesh bag for painting and to develop problem solving skills. This time we used for fine motor skill, hand eye coordination and tripod grasp. Materials needed: 1. Vegetable mesh bag 2. Two bowls 3. Beans 4. Tape Cover one of the bowls with the mesh bag. Tape it on the sides of …
As soon as my toddler got comfortable with sorting, I introduced her to matching. She loves matching activities and everyday she asks for one. According to her it is called memory game. Still I am figuring out how she got that name. 1. Animal matching This is the first matching activity we did. I took …
My 2 year old counts everything whenever she sees more than one of the same object. So I thought she might enjoy this simple fun game. I was right! Materials needed: 1. Dice 2. Masking tape 3. Beans 4. Vegetable steamer 5. Sharpie Preparation: 1. Counting up to six is way behind my daughter’s current …
My toddler explored and decorated felt egg. I cut out an egg from the felt. She did the decoration with different objects like straws, felt scraps, pulses, beads etc She started playing when I was cutting the felt. She found out that she could stick the felt pieces on her dress. My elder one made …
As a home with 2 girls, it is filled with bangles. Lots of bangles are lying around without much use as they are small for my elder one and big for my younger one. We put a lot of use to these bangles by playing with our homemade play dough. I just gave my toddler play …
My toddler loves contact paper. When she was around 9 months old, I used to attach contact paper with sticky side facing her in her high chair. She loves sticking her fingers and taking them off. Her love towards contact paper still grows everyday. Affiliation links are used. Full disclosure policy is here. Thanks for …
Hi Everyone, My toddler initiated a simple and fun game by asking me “which one do you want?”. She was holding hair rubber bands in both of her hands. I pointed out and asked,” Can I have this one, please?”. She smiled and gave the bands from that hand to me. I said, ‘Thank you”. …