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🌟Sensory Board Time!➡️➡️➡️ Working on a Few Sensory Boards! 🎉🎉🎉 * 🌟Details coming soon! 🌟Happy Friday! 😁. * #toddler#toddlemom#toddlerfun#toddlerlife#toddlerlearning#toddleractivitiesathome#toddleractivities#toddlerdevelopmentalgames#sensoryboards#developmentalsensoryplay#makinglearningfun#makinglearningsimple (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🌈Rainbow Pom Pom Sensory Bottle🌈 * 🌟Such a fun activity for young kiddos & perfect for practicing colour recognition, hand-eye coordination, and concentration. 🌟Super easy, fast, and simple to make 🎉. 🌟To make it even more fun have your toddler place the pom poms inside the bottle. If your little one is still mouthing everything, supervise 100% of the time and discourage your child from doing so. My son Jacob is 13 months and still puts everything in his mouth, so, I supervised him 100% of the time. However, he had such a blast placing the pom poms inside the bottle, which already had water, that he didn't mouth any of them. 🌟Or, make the rainbow sensory bottle and give to your little munchkin to play with, above all be safe!!! We know our kids and know what we should, or, shouldn't let them do. My rule is: safety 1st! 😊. 🌟Read below for more details ⬇️⬇️⬇️. * 🌈What you need: 🌟Voss bottle, or, any clear bottle with smooth surface, the pom poms should fit through any water bottle opening. I used a Voss bottle as I already had one at home. 🌟Pom poms in assorted colours and sizes. 🌟Water. * 🌈How to: 🌟Fill the bottle 3/4 with water. 🌟Place pom poms inside. I used between 20-30 pom poms, all different colours and sizes. You can use more, or, less depending on preference. 🌟Fill the bottle all the way with water. 🎉That's it!! Hope your & your kiddos have a blast!! I know mine did😁😁😁. * #parenting#toddlerparenting#toddler#toddlemom#toddlerfun#sensorybottles#funwithsensorybottles#kidsactivities#kidsactivitiesathome#funwithtoddler#craftymommy#rainbowsensorybottle#makingreadingfun#makinglearningeasy#makinglearningsimple#funwithtoddler (at Toronto, Ontario)

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📚Had been looking for a great "lift-the-flap" animal book for my toddler, & have finally found it!!. Thought I would share this info, in case, there're other moms in-the search as well 😁🤗. 📘Title: "Finding First Animals and More." Found it at #indigokids on our weekly trip 📚. 🌟It's a fantastic book featuring domestic, woodland, safari and farm animals, in addition to super fun lift-the-flap learning. 🌟Books are great to promote language development, encourage parent and child interaction, develop reading skills, and enable discovery about the world. 🌟Cheers! 😁. * #toddlemom#toddlerfun#kidsbooks#toddlerboooks#makinglearningfun#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningeasy#makingreadingfun#funwithkids#funwithtoddler#toddlerlife#parenting#parentinglife#tigertalesbooks#findingfirstanimalsl#lifttheflaplearningbooks (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🐟🐠Aquarium Sensory Bottle🦑🐙 * 🐠Fantastic sensory activity for young and older kids! Great to teach them about sea animals, and water💧. 🐟Can also play an aquatic "I spy game," and make it even more fun!🎉 🐳Older kids can have extra fun putting everything inside the bottle. * 🐡What you need: 🌟A Voss bottle, or, any bottle with smooth surface and wide opening, so to place items inside. I used a Voss bottle as it's perfect for it. 🌟Small sea animals. I used 6 animals, got them from Michaels. 🌟Sea shells, got mine from the dollar store. I used 20 small shells, and 10 shells in bigger assorted sizes. Can use more, or, less depending on preference. 🌟Baby oil, 4 tsp. To help everything move better inside the bottle, and create a more realistic look. 🌟Blue food colouring, 1 drop. 🌟Water. 🌟Hot glue (optional). * 🦑How to: 🌟Fill 3/4 of the bottle with water. 🌟Add food colouring, and shake. 🌟Add baby oil, and shake again. 🌟Then, place sea shells, and sea animals inside the bottle. 🌟Once everything is inside the bottle continue to fill with water to the top. 🌟My son is 13 months, so, I sealed the bottle with hot glue, to make sure he won't open it. Older kids may also open the bottle and spill blue water on your floors. However, if this isn't a concern no need for the hot glue. If no hot glue is used, the bottle can be re-used, which is a benefit; however, safety 1st! 😁. 🌟I do want to retrieve the animals after we're done with the bottle, I'll just have to cut it open. 🌟That's it!! 🎉Hope your kiddos have a blast😁🌟. * #funwithtoddler#toddlemom#toddler#toddlerfun#nomesskidsactivities#toddleractivities#toddleractivitiesathome#kidsactivitiesathome#diyaquariumsensorybottle#sensorybottles#funwithkids#parenting#parentinglife#diykidsactivities#diykidssensoryactivities#toddlerlife#toddlerlearning#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningfun (at Toronto, Ontario)

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Working on a new toddler bath paint formula!!! 🎨👶🎨. 🌟Details coming tonight, as will be trying new formula during Jacobs bath time😁. * ✨Happy Friday Everyone!! Hoping for some 🍷later on 🙌. 🌟Cheers! 🥂. * #toddler#toddlemom#toddlerlearningcolours#toddlerbathpaint#nontoxicbathpaint#toddlerfun#toddlerlife#toddlerlearning#makinglearningfun#makinglearningeasy#makinglearningsimple#busymommy#craftymommy (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🤹‍♂️Colour Ball Sorting🤹‍♂️ * ✨This is a very popular activity, but, I didn't start doing it with Jacob until a few days ago. Now have realized why it's so popular! It's such an easy activity for kids, fun and simple, but, really keeps little ones entertained! 🙌 🌟Best of all, is such a great activity to help young children develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and colour recognition. 🌟I used matching colour stickers to indicate where each colour ball goes. Even if your little one is not matching colours yet, they're still working on other important developmental skills. * #toddlerdevelopmentalgames#craftymommy#makinglearningfun#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningfun#makinglearningeasy#toddler#toddlemom#toddlemom#parentinglife#toddlerlearningcolours (at Toronto, Ontario)

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✨Sponge Blocks✨ * This week I'm really concentrating on colour recognition, and practice is key. So, got a few of the think foam kitchen sponges in bright colours. 🌟Then I realized they work great as blocks for young kids because they're light and easy to manipulate. My one year old handles them so easily, its fantastic! 🌟They can also be cut into shapes 🔺🔸🔹. 🌟Also, they're really great for getting little ones practicing colour recognition, fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination. 🌟Jacobs had so much, and the beat part, he's play-learning! 🎉Happy Friday!! 🎉 * #toddler#toddlerfun#toddlerlife#toddleractivitiesathome#toddleractivities#makinglearningeasy#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningfun#craftymommy#toddlerdevelopmentalgames (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🌟Play is the way preschoolers learn about the world, only for them its not just play, but, the way they're starting to make sense of the world. 🌟Lately I've been combining puzzles, books and plastic/plush animals to maximize both playtime and Jacobs learning experience. I think it really helps young kids make connections. * 🌟I looked at some research, read below ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ * 🔷Psychologists have determined that a child’s brain development is influenced significantly when a child acts on or manipulates the world around him or her. Puzzles provide that key opportunity. Children learn to work directly with their environment and change its shape and appearance when they work with puzzles. 🌟Working with puzzles helps kids develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, gross motor skills, shape/color recognition, memory, and setting small goals. 🌟Hope everyone having a great day! Cheers!! * 🌟Source: https://childdevelopmentinfo.com/child-activities/why-puzzles-are-good-for-your-childs-development/#.WO-3WTz3bYU * #toddler#toddlerdevelopmentalgames#toddlerlearning#toddlermom#toddlerfun#toddlerlife#toddlerlearningthrouhhplay#toddlerdevelopment#parentinglife#parentinginfo#toddleractivities#toddleractivitiesathome#makinglearningfun#makinglearningfunathome#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningfunandeasy

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🐄Playtime at Lunchtime🐎🐄🐖. * 🐎My son is loving animals lately, so, I decided to do some playtime during lunchtime. It provides a fun learning opportunity and he eats a lot better because he's distracted and having fun 🙌🙌. 🐖I paired plastic animals with board books and was teaching Jacob about farm animals, how they also eat and what they eat. So, he started feeding the horse carrots 🥕🐎🥕🐎. Kids are just so smart it amazes me!! 😁 🐎Are there any fun learning activities your toddler enjoys during mis meals? Would love to know!! 😊 🐄Happy Saturday!!🐖 * #kidsactivities#kidsactivitiesathome#toddlermom#toddlerlife#toddlerfun#toddlerlearning#toddlerlunch#toddlerlearning#makinglearningfun#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningexciting#toddlerfunmeals#toddlerandlearningduringlunchtime (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🔷Importance of Shapes and Colours🔶 * 🔴Although recognizing objects as red or blue, round or square might seem like child’s play, it’s actually integral to a young child’s cognitive development, and sets the stage for math concepts from sorting and patterning to geometry, and beyond! 🔵When playing with shapes, you can also teach your child to make shapes with his/her body. It's so much fun! * 🌟Source: https://www.education.com/magazine/article/practice-preschool-shapes-colors/ * #toddler#toddlerfun#toddlerfun#toddlerlearning#toddlergames#toddlerdevelopment#toddlerdevelopmentalgames#toddlerlearningcolors#toddlerlearningshapes#toddleractivities#toddleractivitiesathome#craftymommy#smarttoddlersrock#toddlermom#toddlerinfo#toddlercolourandshapegames#funwithtoddler#makinglearningfun#makingleaders#makinglearningeasyandfun#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningexciting#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningsimple (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🔷Interactive Cognitive Developmental Game🔺 * 🔶Importance of Colour: 🌟Color is one of the first ways your preschooler makes distinctions among things she sees; color words are some of the first words she uses to describe these things. 🌟 While it is important for your child to know the names of the colors, it is just as important for him/her to know what to do with them. You can help by inviting him/her to notice many shades, hues, and tints. Make up names for these colors together, such as lemon yellow or apple red. You will be helping him/her use color as a means for creative thinking and language. 🔷Power of Shapes: 🌟When your child explores different shapes, he/she is using one of the most basic educational processes: the observation of same and different. This concept provides him/her with a basic process that they will be able to use in observing, comparing and discussing all she sees and encounters. 🔷Shapes are also symbols. Not surprisingly, the early recognition of shapes relates to your child's ability to read symbols otherwise know as letters. Capital letters are made mostly of circles (or parts of circles) and lines. The first step in understanding letters is the ability to know the difference between a circle and a square or rectangle. * 🌟Details coming tomorrow! 🌟 🌟Info source on colour and shape: http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3746476 * #toddler#toddlerfun#toddlerfun#toddlerlearning#toddlergames#toddlerdevelopment#toddlerdevelopmentalgames#toddlerlearningcolors#toddlerlearningshapes#toddleractivities#toddleractivitiesathome#craftymommy#smarttoddlersrock#toddlermom#toddlerinfo#toddlercolourandshapegames#funwithtoddler#makinglearningfun#makingleaders#makinglearningeasyandfun#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningexciting#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningsimple (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🌟Interactive Cognitive Developmental Game🌟 * 🔷Great game to teach your toddler or practice with your toddler colors and shapes🔹🔺. 🔶Color and shape are ways children observe and categorize what they see. These very recognizable characteristics encourage children to define and organize the diverse world around them. 🔷Sorting by color and shape prepares your child for future mathematical applications, classifying information, making comparisons and organizing information. 🔵This is such a fun and interactive game. Here toddler and caregiver will take turns throwing each of the cubes, and then sort items according to what they get. You can make the game even more fun by being silly and encouraging your toddler to look for items around the house that have the same colours or shapes that appear in the cube. 🔴Details coming tomorrow! 🎉 * 🌟Info source on colour and shape: http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3746476 * #toddler#toddlerfun#toddlerfun#toddlerlearning#toddlergames#toddlerdevelopment#toddlerdevelopmentalgames#toddlerlearningcolors#toddlerlearningshapes#toddleractivities#toddleractivitiesathome#craftymommy#smarttoddlersrock#toddlermom#toddlerinfo#toddlercolourandshapegames#funwithtoddler#makinglearningfun#makingleaders#makinglearningeasyandfun#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningexciting#makinglearningeasier#makinglearningsimple (at Toronto, Ontario)

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🔷Interactive Cognitive Developmental Game🔶 * 🔶What you need & How to: 🌟Cardboard, enough to make a couple cubes and 2 rectangular boards, 1 shapes board and 1 colours board. The sizes depend on how big you want to make everything. The sizes of the boards I made are: 43cm X 12cm. 🌟Divide each cardboard in 3 by drawing lines with a marker, that way you can separate colours from shapes. I used a ruler to divide the spaces equally. 🌟Colour paper, for the colour board and cube. Cut 3 pieces of different colours and glue them onto the board. 🌟I left the shapes board spaces in a neutral colour, as shapes can be any colour. 🌟Divide the shapes cardboard in 3 equal spaces, draw 1 shape in each space. 🌟You can do as many shapes/colours as you like, they just have to match the cube, if, you're making one. This game can also be played without the cube, the cube just makes it more interactive. 🌟Can also turn the board around and add more colours/shapes on that side. 🌟Use cardboard to cut 6 pieces to make one cube, or, 12 pieces to make 2 cubes. I made 2 cubes, one for shapes and one for colours. But, you can also make one cube and add 3 colours and 3 shapes to that one cube. 🌟Your cube can be any size, I wanted mine a bit bigger so it was easier for my almost 1yr old to grab. I made them 12cm X 14cm. I used a box of playdough and divided it in 2, as it was easier. 🌟Another idea is to cut small pieces of paper of different colours, and small pieces of paper with shapes drawn on the paper, they would have to match what you have in your boards. Fold all the pieces of paper, put them in a bag or hat, and have your toddler pick one out. 🌟At the end I used contact paper to laminate both boards and cubes, that way they'll last longer. 🔷I also made an arrow out of cardboard, to change the game a bit and use the arrow to point at colours and shapes in the house. This can be done with or without the cube. * #toddler#toddlerfun#toddlerlearning#toddlergames#toddlerdevelopment#toddlerdevelopmentalgames#toddlerlearningcolors#toddlerlearningshapes#toddleractivities#toddleractivitiesathome#craftymommy#smarttoddlersrock#toddlermom#makinglearningsimple#makinglearningfun