Soft blocks. Montessori name recognition.

Our toddler began to learn letters in the nursery. I like the way nursery make this and I thought that it would be great if our toddler would recognize his name spelling. He perfectly distinguish letter A and letter E, maybe some more, but I haven't identified this yet. Many times, I have written his name on paper or on dashboard and he enjoyed this. Every person loves to hear and to see his name.

I thought, it would be great to make a play with letters, and create something interactive for my toddler. Soft blocks - great way to develop fine motor abilities such as touching and playing with them. Apart of this, I made these soft blocks colorful and he can learn colors. I made them in such a way, that he can match letters, once blocks are arranged correctly, he can spell his name, DAMIAN. This montessori activity develops his creativity and makes him easy to learn new letters. And of course his name.

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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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