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Developmentally Appropriate First Birthday Gifts

March 31, 2019

In response to our post on our favourite (developmentally appropriate) toys, I had a few of you asking what we wound up getting Anderson for his first birthday. It sounds like a lot of your littles are quickly approaching the one year mark as well. CONGRATS! Continue reading “Developmentally Appropriate First Birthday Gifts”

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Easter Egg Engineering // so I’m not going to lie, I pulled these out of the toy bin to hide again this year. Anderson loves these little plastic eggs. They’re often eggs for his dinos or for making omelettes in his play kitchen. But today we took little balls of @playdoh and engineered towers out of them. We worked our motor skills while understanding the concepts of balance and gravity.
language & literacy strategy: pair words with visuals 
Easter Sun Catchers // Easter is around the corner! I’m excited that Anderson will be old enough to do a true Easter egg hunt this year! We’re planning to do an outdoor pandemic friendly hunt with a friend. What are your Easter plans? 
Dimensional Recycled Process Art // you may notice we don’t do a whole lot of traditional kid crafts around here. We do tend to do more process art. Where the process, not the product, is the goal. Process art projects supply kids with a bunch of materials to explore while they make the final outcome their own. For this activity we cut and hot glued a bunch of our recycle onto a large flap of cardboard. Then later I put out a variety of sizes of paint brushes and some washable paint. We left it out all week and came back to it again and again.
Play is learning. Every activity I share here is designed to be a playful, exploratory way for kids to cultivate skills.  
Post-it portraits // sometimes changing the mediums on a classic activity makes it brand new. We swapped traditional drawing paper for @postit notes and drew pictures to collage on our @climbosaursequipment climber :) the peeling and sticking of this activity adds a little more pincher grasp and hand-eye coordination development to an already great motor skill workout.

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