We are having such fun with our toddler tasks and Sophia really enjoys doing "school". Here are some of the activities that we did this week...
(
Sophia 2 1/2 years old)
Letter Identification and Letter Formation:
We started by dot painting letters. I just drew an outline of some letters and let her "decorate" them. She was really proud of her work and wanted Daddy to see what she did for "school."
Fine Motor Skills:
We really enjoyed our Easter Fun Preschool printable pack from
Our Little Monkeys.
We did a little cutting....
Color Identification and Object Discrimination (finding the difference):
Color sorting and finding the difference...
Letter Identification with different fonts:
Letter sorting...
Fine Motor Skills and Color Identification:
We played several games this week, but
The Sneaky Squirrel was one of her favorites! I like the squirrel "tongs" that come with the game because they really help to build up those fine motor skills as she pinches them together to grab a colored acorn.
ABC Order:
We did a little ABC Dot-to-Dot and she colored the picture.
Sorting, Color Identification and fine Motor Skills:
She loves to play with her counting bears, but she insists on doing them in her highchair, which she doesn't use anymore. Whatever:)
We used a pair of tongs to pick up the bears, which is also good for building up those hand muscles needed for writing.
Patterns:
Worked on patterns a little...
Painting:
Since we
released 1,500 ladybugs this week, we decided to paint a ladybug on the art easel. I drew a ladybug with upper and lower case letters. The uppercase letters were supposed to be red, but I had to change it to yellow since we ran out of red paint. Flexibility:)
Color Mixing/ Experimenting:
Sophia learned that yellow and blue make green! Such a fun way to learn your colors and how they change and work together.
She added a few more colors and this was the final master piece!
Finger Print Painting:
I LOVE these finger ink paints and so do the girls. I picked these up at Lakeshore along with a cute book that helps you create fingerprint animals and scenes.
This is a VERY bad drawing of a tree (by me) and cutely decorated by Sophia:)
Color Matching and Color Discrimination:
I used markers to draw color coded circles on a paper. Sophia used her paint set to match the colors, which also included light and dark.
Drawing:
I taped a piece of paper to the floor and let her draw a picture. In case you can't tell, this is a picture of our family and Daddy's name:)
That wraps up this week of Toddler Tasks! This post goes to show you that you can do so many activities without spending a lot of money or printing off a ton of pages....although I like printing pages:)
You can check out our other Toddler Tasks posts {
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