This week for Toddler School we had a few extras, my friend was watching a 3-year-old and 1-year-old, plus another friend with a 2-year-old decided to join our weekly learning adventures. Even though it was a little chaotic, we still got through a few activities.
First, we started with coloring a Letter B worksheet that I created. I also brought some toys that start with the letter B, a bird, a bear, a baby, and a book.
Then, we went outside to do the color match activity with the foam shapes that we did last week. However, instead of the water beads, I filled the tubs with bird seed. We chose bird seed because we knew it would be messy, so we wanted to do this outside, but were worried about not getting all the rice picked up and didn’t want the birds to get rice. Plus, bird seed starts with B, so it fit in with the letter B theme.
That activity got a little out of control, with bird seed all over, so we moved on to pipe cleaner activities. First, I got out the beads to work on motor skills by getting the beads on the pipe cleaners. We tried to do some color matching with this, matching bead and pipe cleaner color, but focused more on just getting the beads on. That was challenging enough for little hands! Next, we got out a plastic strainer with holes to make pipe cleaner rainbows.
After that, we just played and watched a movie until it was time to get the big kids. We have some fun things planned already for next week!
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