This is my planned activities for today. The word in blue following the activity is which theme of the week it is geared towards.Note: These activities are geared towards toddlers ages 1-2 years old. My son is not very conversational at this time, however we are working on encouraging him to speak more.
Fine Motor Skills:
- Trace a printout of the number 1
- Color picture of the number 1
- Using a shallow tray filled with rice or pudding, trace the number 1
- Count 1 of items throughout the day (1 banana, 1 book, 1 car, 1 mirror, 1 diaper, etc)
- Science: What Foods Attract Ants? Take a paper plate and divide into four sections (draw two lines making a T). Put 4 different foods that ants may be attracted to (my son cannot talk, so I will be guessing and explaining my reasoning to him. Click here for instructions on how to carry this experiment out.) Place the plate outside and come back to it in a few hours. See which foods ants were attracted to. Then watch the ants interacting with each other and the food. *May or may not hold my son's attention. Also dependent on if the rain continues in our area or not.*
- Egg Carton Ants: Materials needed: cardboard egg carton, paint, pipe cleaners, markers. Instructions: Use 3 sections of a cardboard egg carton to form the body of an ant. Have the kids paint it and add antennas (pipe cleaners) on the first section and 8 legs (longer pipe cleaners) on the back two sections (4 on each section). Then glue some googly eyes on the front.
- Are You An Ant?
- Ants in Your Pants: A Lift the flap counting book by Sue Heap
- The Ants Go Marching *yet again*
