I don’t really have picky eaters, but all of my kids have gone through that stage! According to Shannon Payette Seip, co-owner of the Bean Sprouts Café in Madison, Wisconsin, research shows that kids develop their taste preferences when they reach the age of three. Picky eaters often emerge at this age because it is …
**My boys like to chitchat all night long, so this guest post is very timely and helpful for me, too! ~Kelli If you’re experiencing a nightly power struggle as you try to get your little ones off to bed, you’re not alone. Difficulty with children’s bedtimes is a common, and exhausting, parental woe. It doesn’t …
Skills this child development activity enhances: Visual Discrimination Imagination For ages: Preschool 4 years + Flip It Materials Needed: Quarter Flip It Instructions: Show both sides of a quarter to your child. Explain the difference between heads and tails, then ask your child to choose one. Toss the coin in the air and let it …
Skills this child development activity enhances: Visual Discrimination Imagination For ages: Preschool 4 years + Which Way? Materials Needed: Quarter Which Way? Instructions: The next time you take a walk with your child, bring along a quarter. Assign an action to heads and tails, for example, heads means “turn left,” and trails means “turn right.” …
Skills this child development activity enhances: Sorting Visual Discrimination Problem Solving For ages: Preschool 3 years + Leaf Tracings Materials Needed: Paper Pencils or Crayons Leaf Tracings Instructions: Create tracings or crayon or pencil rubbings of several different types of leaves, and encourage your child to place the correct leaf over the corresponding tracing. !Monitor …
Skills this child development activity enhances: Sorting Visual Discrimination Problem Solving For ages: Preschool 3 years + Leaf Match Materials Needed: 2 each of several different leaves Leaf Match Instructions: Lay out several pairs of leaves from different plants, mix them up, and encourage your child to match up the leaf pairs.
Skills this child development activity enhances: Sorting Visual Discrimination Problem Solving For ages: Preschool 3 years + Materials Needed: 10 leaves Bright Light Leaf Comparisons Instructions: Gather about ten leaves with your child. Sort through them with him/her and look at the different features. Hold them up to the light and look at the different …
Skills this child development activity enhances: Creativity Gross Motor Skills For ages: Preschool 3 years + Materials Needed: Paint Fly Swatter Butcher Paper Wacky Painting Instructions: Pin up a large sheet of butcher paper on a clothesline outside, or lay it flat on the lawn (weigh down the corners with rocks.) Pour several colors of …
Skills this child development activity enhances: Creativity Observation Discovery For ages: Preschool 3 years + Materials Needed: White Paper White Crayon Watercolor Paints Crayon Revelation Instructions: Have your child make a drawing using a white crayon on a white piece of paper, encouraging your child to press down hard with the crayon. (You may also …
This fun child development activity is a great way to enhance your preschooler’s creativity, imagination, and Fine Motor Skills! This is a guest post that I wrote on Cori’s Coupon Corner. Please check it out and drop me a comment over there letting me know!
I know, I know! Christmas is over, but if you’re anything like me, you want to squeeze a little more magic in before packing all the decorations up. How about a Polar Express week? Here’s a few ideas to get you started! Polar Express Memory Grab the Memory Cards from this Preschool Pack at Living …
Merry Christmas!! Well, the cookies are baked, the menus are planned, the house is decorated inside and out, all the gifts are bought (and wrapped!) and I’ve pinned a number of tasty hot chocolate recipes for Christmas Eve. Every day, my children go about the house singing Christmas songs and gazing out windows searching for …
