My baby has gotten to the age (17 months) were he wants hands on learning activities. So I give him so to keep him busy while I homeschool my 2 oldest boys. I can see already that he loves to learn, I pray that he will always be like this so that one day he is an easy homeschooler!
Here are a few activities I have given him that he really has loved.
Materials:
Large Vitamin bottle with a large opening
Large colorful pom poms
The concept is for him to place the pom poms in the bottle and then shake them out of the bottle. This teaches hand and eye coordination and dexterity.
Materials:
Empty Baby Wipe Box
Concept for him to open the wipe box lid, place the links in the wipe box and then close the lid when done. This also teaches hand and eye coordination and dexterity.
This is his favorite and can play with it for quite awhile.
Stay tuned for some more thrifty, homemade learning toys / games my baby loves!
Linking this homeschool post up to Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers, and delicate Construction, 1 +1 +1 = 1, this week.
My Lukey would love this! I've given him empty vitamin bottles where he loves taking the cap on and off, but I never thought of pom-poms. Thanks for the great idea, Nicole!
ReplyDeleteLove it, you have gave me some ideas! Thanks so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteGreat for hand eye coordination! He is sooo stinkin cute!
ReplyDeleteYou always have the neatest ideas!
ReplyDeleteLove these kind of ideas... my son is 15 months and he is the same as yours, very hands on. Can't wait to try these with him! :)
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This is a great idea. I can see little ones playing with this for a long time.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas, when I was a preschool teacher I made some of these type things. They were very entertaining and kept them busy.
ReplyDeleteLove this I shared it with my readers. Fantastic ideas.
ReplyDeleteIt's so awesome how you can turn such simple things into such great interactive tools.
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