Fine Motor Activity

I like keep busy my toddler, and I like it more when he enjoys the activities that I propose to him. From all of the activities that I have proposed him till now, he enjoyed every activity with filling the bottle and painting with different forms and in different ways. Check more on the posts below.

1. Paint on a sponge

2. Fill the bottle with tisues

3. Fine motor activity

4. Painting

5. Painting II

This activity, is as well, one that suppose filling the bottle, but now with sponge. I had a big sponge that I have cut into little pieces, and a little bottle. Damian enjoyed filling this bottle with sponge, almost for its texture, as well he tried to take out the sponge from the bottle :D:D:D. The idea was that he feels how a sponge changes when it is touched. It is a good experience for him to understand the things around him.

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Colours and paintings are always a good choice for an inside activity. Paint on a sponge

Painting is a lot of fun, everytime, with no exceptions... and a lot of work after having so much fun :D:D:D. This activity develops imagination on kids, grows concentration skills, keeps attention of the kids. I thought that would be great to make this inside activity special. I found a big sponge, watercolor, and water. I choose just 2 colours, red and green, to be easier to color the sponge and easier to explain to my toddler each color. It was important for me that he enjoys plaing with colors and develop his feelings of each object that he used during this inside activity. This montessori activity helped me to maintain him busy for almost 1 HOUR!!! Yes, it is a lot for him, as other activities we play as much as 15 minutes, and he gets bored.

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Toddler activities - Part III. A lot of fun and learning.

Always I try to prepare some interesting activities for my toddler, but not always I have too much time to do that. So, I leave Damian to play with his toys or watch videos on youtube, TV is not on our to do list, so he recuperates this time with videos from youtube. As well, it is very interesting that he finds activities from the things that I did´t thought he would like to do. In this article I want to share with you some of unplanned activities.

Insert straws into an egg support:

Filling up the bottle with tissues:

Puzzle:

Playing with oranges as being balls:

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Crafting. Creating a little farm on paper.

I´m not the person who do a lot of crafts or things hand made, but I like a lot how other people enjoy doing crafting and to see what great things they can create. But, this weekend, I made an attempt to do a farm craft with Damian, almost because he loves animals, and in this way he learns a lot of things.

For this activity I needed: scissors, coloured paper, a big white paper, glue, printed paper with domestic animals.

Damian likes scissors, and to cut all the things, it was a really difficult task, as he didn´t let me cut anything with any scissors. So, I needed to cut all the shapes without him, that he couldn´t see me. I cut all the domestic animals that I have printed, then the shapes: of a house, a car, grass, sun. After preparing all together with Damian we created a real farm with animals and real farm life. I would like to say that this activity is a great time spent with your toddler, and it is an easy way to learn all the domestic animals, and colours.

Do it with your toddler, and you´ll see how much you will enjoy this activity :D:D:D

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The happiest DAY!

Dear friend, I´m happy that finally I have get courage to create this blog and to write this post for you!!!

20th of May was a big day, I became MOTHER. I can firmly say that this was the happiest moment in my life when I heard  the cry of my little baby... It is priceless to become a mother...

Why I am writing now and not earlier, you will ask, not from the very first day of the BIG DAY. Well, earlier I think I wasn´t prepared to share all my feelings and emotions, because these are very different each day, each hour, each minute. You can laugh and cry at the same time. You understand that life is not just about you ... and your feelings are nothing compared with his feelings.

Here on the blog WE (me and Damian) want to share happy and tough moments that brings motherhood, also we want to grow together with YOU (our reader).

My ideas for the next posts are various: preparing bath, nursing bottle, massage for babies, preparing for nursery etc. Here I would like to hear from you what would you like to see on this blog.

See you next time on my blog.

Besitos

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