I've been compiling a list over time of activities to have on hand to do with Norah. The ideas have come from various blogs and books. I will continue to add to it...
Textures:
- Fill ziploc bag with yogurt/gel and let baby squish!
- Playdough - homemade recipe: Mix 1 1/2 c salt and 4 c flour, add 1 1/2 c water gradually, and food coloring. Knead. Can put in ziploc for younger baby to feel or press hand to make impression.
- Put soft items on floor, cover with blanket, let baby crawl across.
- Play with shaving cream or whipped cream or yogurt on high chair tray.
- Put finger foods in muffin tins.
- Make a texture box/sensory bin - anything you can think of from fabrics to sand to rice to leaves and grass. Depending on baby's age and if he/she puts in mouth.
- Hide toys in bowl of rice.
- Mix cornstarch and water to play with.
- Play with cotton balls.
- Put flour or sugar in baking tin to draw in and play with.
- Play with cooked rice or "pap" (corn meal).
Alphabet
- Alphabet magnets
- Flashcards
- Cut out giant letters and hang. Review sounds.
- Sing the sounds of the letters.
- Draw letters and review, ask child what it is/what sound it makes. Can draw on chalk or white board or in sand to be more fun.
- Make letters in playdough or cookie dough.
- Paint letters.
- Color letters.
- Cut out giant letter and tape to floor, have toddler walk over the shape of letter.
- Point out all the specific letter (i.e. all the A's) you see in books, hunt for the letter as you read and walk around the house together.
- Match pictures of letters - i.e. match two A flashcards.
- Alphabet books and puzzles.
- Alphabet toys.
- Sing the ABC's often.
- Watch ABC videos.
- Make food in the shape of your letter - pancake, icing on a cupcake, sugar cookie, etc.
- Have letters of the week.
- Just show her and make the sounds! Norah has at 15 months learned that A makes "aah" sound and B makes a B sound. She gets mixed up but many times she will point to the big A or B that I have hung on our wall and say the correct sound. Repetition is key!
- Sort toys on a tray with the letter that the toy begins with.
Numbers/Counting
- Number magnets
- Number of the week. Put that number of a toy or snack, etc in bowls. For example, if the number of the week is 1, give her 1 raisin, 1 slice of apple, 1 cracker, in various bowls. Explain, this is 1 raisin, etc.
- Put raisins/cheerios/etc in muffin tins or egg cartons - in ascending order. 1 in the first, 2 in the second, etc.
- Flashcards.
- Posters of the numbers to recognize the names, as with the letters.
- Number videos, books, puzzles.
- Number books. Great idea I found on this Children's Learning Activities blog. Make a "book" of the numbers, i.e. the large number 3 and then three shapes. The author of this post said her daughter started to recognize numbers at 18 mos.
- Another idea from the above post. Clap/tap, etc for the specific number. Use Dot markers to add the number for the correct page.
Shapes
- Shape Sorter
- Cut out shapes from cardboard, discuss different things those shapes can be and color. I.e., a triangle can be a pizza slice, a teepee, etc. (This is obviously more of a preschool age activity).
- Use play dough or cookie dough to make shapes.
- Make shapes in pancakes or sandwich.
- Flashcards.
Colors
- Sort toys by color. Start just comparing two colors, slowly add.
- Do a color hunt around the house.
- Have a color of the day and wear that color, and eat foods that color.
- Talk about the rainbow or Joseph's coat to tie in Bible stories.
- Flashcards.
- Check these review games at Confessions of a Homeschooler
- Also seen at above link, make a Color Book (for an older toddler/preschooler to make themselves, but can be used with a pre-toddler), in which each page has the color and cut out pictures of things in that color. Look through the book together and review.
- Matching objects or flashcards by color. When older, can match colors with the names as well.
Fine Motor
- Transferring - use tweezers to move pom poms (can also do this to sort colored pom poms
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