Learning shapes, montessori activity for a toddler.

Some weeks ago, I proposed to my toddler to learn shapes. This activity comes to my mind, once I have seen he is learning shapes at the nursery and I thought, that it is a great moment to make this task easier for me and for him by repeating these at home. As well, I was looking for some interactive video on youtube as he could make association with all the knowledge he got during few days. Looking now, I want to say that I am very proud of my son and his quick ability to recognize all the basic shapes.

Steps we took for learning shapes:

1. Nursery activities

2. Montessori games with matching shapes. (these games he used to play from 1 year)

3. Emoticon made from cut paper

4. Making crafts from shapes. In our case circles.

My toddler was very happy once he saw the usefulness of shapes and how many crafts can be done from them. Discover shapes with toddler,  it's too much fun.

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Ideas for inside activities for toddlers

There is clean in the house only when children are at their grandparents... told somebody. This happened to be our case this week, as our toddler stayed with his grandparents (my parents-in-law). And now, I have plenty of time to prepare new toddler activities, for upcoming days, for our toddler.

Today, I will share just a part of prepared inside activities for toddlers. Something I have bought, something I decide to do myself. I am more of DYI, but sometimes I need some inspiration, and books are just perfect combination of DYI activities and professional activities :).

1. Crafting/ Painting - I know that our toddler enjoys painting. I proposed to make some crafts, easy ones, that he will enjoy to paint. I choose to craft objects that are well known by my toddler, as butterflies, cars and motorcycles. He will paint these objects with watercolors.

The main objective of this inside activity is to develope his fine motor skill of handling the brush and to take watercolor with the brush. Another objective is to learn colors and associate a color with an object.

2. BOOKS - I think books are the easiest inside activity for mums, as there are a plenty of things to do, written by professionals in this field and you just have to read and decide what to do with your kid. The books that I have bought for our toddler are about maths, letters and discovering the nature. As you can see, these books are for prescholar kids, that is why I will change excercises to be easier to make.

What I propose to do:
- to learn properly counting, and to count objects, I mean not just expect my toddler to count from 1 to 10, but to count like 1 potato, 2 potatoes and so on.
- to discover what is the weather and how it is changes. Ex. Wind, Rain, Sunshine etc.
- to learn small poems
- to learn new fruits, vegetables, things that we haven't learnt yet

Next week I will share with you an update of these great inside toddler activities, and how my toddler enjoys playing.

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How to teach easier alphabet? Printables is a good choice for this educational activity

Printables.... How I even haven't find them before?...but, I'm happy that I find them now.

It is not so easy to teach a child a language living in a multicultural environment, when you come from a bilingual family and the city where you live as well have 2 languages. It is difficult, but who told that this is impossible. I always tried to speak to my child just one language, and to learn with him songs in the same language, watch youtube videos in this language. I have seen a really good progress, but I didn't know that printables can help me so much on our educational path. Last week me and my husband prepared this printables in the alphabet order, as we wanted him to be familiar with the letters and all the words which begin with that letter. This educational activity I think is good way to teach your toddler new words and makes this task easier for mums.

Preparation: dad looked for good quality images on google search, each image have to begin with a letter of the alphabet, then I made a power point slides with images, printed, cut and the printables were ready for use.

See below in the images how these look likes. The amazing part of the printables was that my toddler told me clearly two new words just this weekend.

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