by jessicaperkins | Dec 8, 2010 | art, craft, learning, mache, paper
Buga and I recently did a craft project I found in a parenting magazine. Early Introduction to Paper Mache – using tissue paper and flour paste.What You’ll Need:1/2 cup water1 cup flourbowlold paint brushestissue paper in 2″ squares1. spray the bowl...
by jessicaperkins | Nov 19, 2010 | activity, cart, learning, picnic, play, shopping, snack
Sometimes when we go out shopping I just need a little time to … you know, shop. It is so much easier to get this task done when I don’t have to chase after a 2-year old. She has her own priorities, her own thoughts about where to go, her own shopping...
by jessicaperkins | Nov 8, 2010 | counting, educational, graph, learning, math, number, numbers, sorting
A Simple Counting Activity. I found these “border strips” at the dollar store – meant for a bulletin board. I cut one up so they became matching manipulatives while keeping another whole. She matches the numbers to the number strip and I tried to...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 20, 2010 | activity, chopsticks, color, colors, fine motor, learning, pattern, play, pom pom, pom poms, project, skill, tongs
I know I have posted about Pom Poms before but we still use ours for this project so I thought I would post some new pictures and mention it again. It’s a great way to help build fine motor skills and color coding and pattern making. All you need are some Pom...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 18, 2010 | field trip, fun, learning, museums, play, please touch museum
I know I’ve posted about museums before…and the Please Touch Museum, for sure! We continue to go back and enjoy this special museum time and time again. Here we are enjoying the Rhythmic Rain Forest…the Frogs are kind of like a Xylophone. So much...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 15, 2010 | activity, chart, counting, learning, numbers, play
This is a really cool Number Chart I found at the Dollar Store. It was a two pack. A Number Chart and an Alphabet Chart were included. I bought two of them and cut one set up. I laminated both the big chart as well as the cut outs and Buga uses them as a large format...
