5 Skills Children Build From Putting Together Jigsaw Puzzles

Posted on August 31st, 2010 in *Early Elementary, *Preschool, *Upper Elementary, Fine Motor, Math and Matching, Shapes

My 4 year old and 3 year old girls love puzzles especially 100 + pieces princess puzzles. They are such good friends working on puzzles together and in addition to keeping them occupied it is great to know that they are building important educational skills.

  • Hand-Eye Coordination
  • Memory
  • Fine motor skills
  • Learn to look at details/ problem solve
  • Matching
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Find The Sound Game For Babies

Posted on August 13th, 2010 in *Baby, *Toddler, Social Development

Here is a fun educational game for babies and toddlers:

  • Put a bell or some other noise maker into a container and cover that container plus two other containers with contact paper. These can be empty small milk cartons, margarine containers, baby food jars etc…
  • Shake the empty containers and then the container that has the noise maker. Look surprised and clap.
  • Have your baby shake the containers to find the one that makes noise. Act excited when he shakes the one that makes noise – your baby will love that!
  • For toddlers ask them to point to the container that makes noise.
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Ten Little Fingers (finger play)

Posted on July 29th, 2010 in *Baby, *Preschool, *Toddler

Fun finger play to do with even the smallest child.

Ten little fingers (wiggle fingers)
Dance and play.
Ten little fingers
Wiggle all day.

Ten little toes (wiggle toes)
Dance and play
Ten little toes
Wiggle all day.

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Green (Spinach) Ice Cream That Had My Kids Asking For Seconds

Posted on July 15th, 2010 in *Early Elementary, *Preschool, *Toddler, *Upper Elementary, Healthy Snacks For Kids

I made green smoothies for my kids today. Since it was nice and thick I called it ice cream. They were so excited that they didn’t even ask about the green colour. They both eagerly asked for seconds!
Here is how we made it:

1 bunch spinach
1 cup milk (I used lactaid since my girls are [...]

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