Seriously one of my favorite activities to do with infants. Babies need physical contact and seems to have a strong interest in music and rhythm. Tummy tapping strengthens their sense of beat as well as your emotional connection.
The world can be a tough place that beats on us and encourages us to focus on what's wrong with us and everything around us. Gratitude and success journals help keep perspective as well as being a great tool for teaching memory and reflection.
Worried that the special trip you took three months ago will get forgotten just like todays homework? Besides being a great car or "waiting" game, this activity builds your child's long term memory capabilities.
Our society and schools, perhaps unintentionally, train us to ask less questions and be less curious. Here is one very repeatable activity that can help keep your child asking and wondering. You can foster curiosity.
A little more advanced activity with beads than level 1, focusing on pattern making. Fine-tunes those fine motor skills, is a form of visual art, and helps with math concepts.
Another Classic. Learning how to string beads (or other objects) is a great way to encourage fine motor skills development.
This sounds like a simple task but can be difficult for very little children. Using a procedure, though, can make it a good intro to other tasks.
Sounds simple and very un-academic, but I've learned that drawing really is the foundation for writing later on.
Help your preschooler solidify quantity concepts with this simple activity. They are not expected to know their numerals or even counting per se at this point, but the more this activity is repeated, the more they will learn! If you treat it as a fun game, they will ask to play again and again.
Popcorn Popping on the Apricot tree is an excellent action song with repeated motions.
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