Toddler Time- Color sorting

One of my goals this month was to introduce colors to my daughter (21 months).  I started pointing out colors to her in everyday activities... red elmo, elmo is red! ect.. I thought that she was starting to pick up on green so that was one of the colors I choose to work with first.  With toddlers, I would only use two colors when beginning a color sorting activity.  Once they have mastered those two colors, add another and so on. Here is my sweet pea sorting green and purple.  (Note- make sure you use colors that are opposite of each other, blue and green are too similar as well as yellow and orange.)

I started with colored cups and pompoms in the middle.  (If you don't have colored cups, use bowls or just cut a piece of construction paper to put on the front of a clear cup)

Let the sorting begin!

So proud of herself!  

I added a few more colors for the big man so he could join in on the fun as well!

Here is another activity that you can do for sorting categories  

(Sorting Cars and Trains) I'm working on getting the link to this printable back up.  

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Week 3- Letter C

This week was full of Cotton Balls, Cats, Caterpillar, Colors, and Counting!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD LESSON PLAN

(When downloading, click the box on the left that says free download.  When the time says 00sec, click the words FREE DOWNLOAD and the link should pop up at the bottom left for you to click and open. Feel free to save this on your computer!)

(Sorry, this lesson plan was linked before I had a chance to tweak it for you guys so ignore my page numbers ect..) 

Classifying- LOVE these classifying puzzles!  

Making the letter C with cotton balls

We read SO many cat books this week.  "Have You Seen My Cat?" is one of my favs.  After reading that story, we made a cat from this link here (click which template you want to use on the right)

Make a C out of playdough

Caterpillar sorting size

Caterpillar puzzle 

Caterpillar counting 

Painting with a Cotton Ball- This was such a fun activity.  Take 2 colors watered down and paint onto a coffee filter with a cotton ball. (I recommend watercolors if you have them, we used watered down finger paint and it didn't work that well)

results!! 

Color Mixing!!
(Red +Yellow= Orange and Yellow+ Blue= Green)

Categories (Sorting Cars and Trains) Click here for my link 
(When downloading, click the box on the left that says free download.  When the time says 00sec, click the words FREE DOWNLOAD and the link should pop up at the bottom left for you to click and open. Feel free to save this on your computer!)

C is for Cookies! 

Curly Cues!!

Counting Coins 

These next few activities are what I call workboxes... aka independent work stations.  I usually set up a couple on the kitchen table if my 1 year old is awake or on the floor if she is confined somewhere and won't charge through her brother's stuff.   Here is what we did the week of C.... 

Colored playdough, Counting coins, and Coloring 

For those of you with boys, or other kiddos that don't enjoy coloring, a helpful trick that I use is I lay out only a few colors for him that are appropriate for the page.  I then "coach" him on what color he wants to use on the wheels, what color on the headlights, ect... This usually gets him sitting for more than a milisecond and usually prevents him from crazy random scribble all over the page and table then I am done mom!  

Here are the floor work activities, puzzles that and activities that he can do completely independently.

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