Welcome to Teeny Tot Tuesday! I’ve got some fun ideas to share with you today to help keep your toddlers busy and learning at the same time!   Thanks to my All About Reading Level 1 kit, we had these fun word eggs to flip. Tinker Bell flipped each one over then read the word. The Teeny Tot insisted on playing too.   Then she got really serious.   She pulled out our Rush Hour Jr. game again too. Not sure why, but the kids all love this. The game is fun to play, but the Teeny Tot doesn’t play by the rules.   We always try to include our Teeny Tot in with our regular studies. Partly because it gets her used to doing school, and mostly because it keeps her from wondering around the house and say…coloring all over our mirror with mom’s lipstick. Here she is doing a self portrait.     One thing we both love are the Alphabet Alley puzzles. They’re so great for toddlers even kindergartners because the … [Read more...]

Hi everyone! I have some fun Teeny Tot workbox ideas to share with you today. What is in our boxes this week? Big Buttons from Oriental Trading Number Tracing sheet with star stickers Pattern Block Activity Pack from Learning Resources Geoboard and rubber bands Letter A Tracing worksheet and dry-erase marker   Number Tracing: You can either use with pencil/crayon etc, or laminate and use with dry-erase. We chose to put stickers along each number just for fun. This kid has some serious focus when she’s doing schoolwork.   She had fun with the lacing buttons today. First she made herself a necklace, then proceeded to create the most knotted bunch of buttons I think I’ve ever seen.   She really likes the Geoboard. She made shapes using colored rubber bands. Then she took them all off and did straight lines, then filled the board.   She also did an uppercase/lowercase Letter A matching game from my Letter of the Week … [Read more...]

Welcome to this week’s Teeny Tot Tuesday! I’ve started getting creative to try and keep this toddler busy! She’s 3 now and borderline ready to start the Letter of the Week activities. I did manage to get a few done with her then she decided she wasn’t interested in any more, so I’ll just try again a little later.  One thing she did this week was work on her Parents Pop-Beads. She loves these things, mom feels so-so as they usually end up all over the carpet! But I guess with that smile, I’ll deal with sucking up a few in the vacuum cleaner!   She also likes to play with our new Zoob Builders from Lakeshore Learning. She actually did really well putting these together which was nice. She didn’t build anything specific, just sat and linked them together for awhile. Great for fine-motor skills and some quiet teaching time for me!   We found this Twister Hopscotch game at a homeschool giveaway night. I didn’t quite put it together like it was … [Read more...]