Colorful caterpillar

I saw this activity on an online shop, and I decided to make one instead of buying it. 

What you need:

• Cardboard

• Drawing paper

• Pencil color

• Pen

• Scissor

• Scotch tape

• Glue

• Buttons

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This activity requires the kids to match the same color on the caterpillar with the buttons. This involves their color knowledge and also hand and eyes coordination. You may make it more colorful as you want.

Easter Bunny

Easter theme is still on, let's make a Easter rabbits and some carrots.

What you need:

• Origami paper
• Drawing paper
• Glue
• Googly eyes
• Scissor
• Pen

I cut some triangles and rabbit ears with origami papers, and also draw them on a paper.

The task requires Jenn to paste them on the paper, based on my drawing. She also has to add some eyes and ears, it ended up with some funny face bunny!

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Tracing Easter Carrot

Easter is coming to town, and I prepared an Easter tracing activity for Jenn. Tracing activity involves the small muscles of hand, which also is very useful to develop their fine motor skill. Jenn still can't draw the line perfectly, but I believe it takes some time to let her draw exactly on the dots.

Stay tune for more Easter activities =)

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Welcome to Jenn's Bakery ^^

It's another pretend play, please welcome to Jenn's bakery. The cakes are homemade and decorated by Jenn, enjoy! 

This activity improves their fine motor control, hand and eye coordination and also creativity. This activity involves small item: waterbeads, please make sure to keep an eye on them and never leave them unattended while doing this activity.
If you don't feel at ease, please don't do this activity with your toddler.

What you need:

• DIY Playdough (here is the recipe)
• Cupcake papers
• Waterbeads
• Plates
• Tong

How to do:

1. Make the DIY playdough as instructed at the recipe
2. Shape them into cakes
3. Decorate the cake with waterbeads
4. Serve the cake with tong

Jenn the lil Gardener

Jenn loves gardening sooooo much, she keeps playing it again and again..!
Hope your kids enjoy it too =)

What you need:

• Popsicle sticks
• Cardboard
• Flower pot
• Waterbeads
• Gardening tools ( I have mini gardening fork, spade and watering can )

How to do:

1. Draw flowers on the cardboard, color them and cut the shape out.
2. Color the popsicles with green color and stick the flowers on them.
3. Place the waterbeads in a big container, so they can move them to the flower pot by gardening spade.
4. Let them plant the flowers.

Jenn's DIY Homemade Cupcakes

Welcoming February, the month of love, with something sweet, it's cupcakes!
This practice the little hands' fine motor skill and some creativity.

What you need:

• Cardboard
• Punched origami papers
• Scissor
• Marker
• Glue

How to do:

1. Draw cupcakes and strawberries on the cardboard.
2. Cut the shape out and color it with marker (your little ones might need your help for this)
3. Let them decorate the cupcakes with some punched origami papers as smarties and the strawberry

Christmas Tree Card

This is the Christmas card that Jenn made for 2014, simple yet cute! I know it's too late for Christmas, but you may change the theme into some other events, or maybe this year's Christmas card =)

What you need:

• Plain white cardboard
• Circle stickers (combination of light and dark green)
• Pen

Instructions:

1. Draw dots on the paper which will form a Christmas tree
2. Place the stickers on the dots
3. Don't forget to add a star on the top of the tree
4. Write a message on the back side

DIY Snowflake for toddler

I know it's really late to post crafts with Christmas theme, but late is better than nothing. December is identical with snowy winter season, so snowflake is the DIY craft for toddlers this time.

What you need:

• Plain white paper
• Origami
• Puncher
• Scissor
• Glue

Instructions:

1. Draw circles on the paper and cut them out
2. Fold the circles into 4 and cut on the edges, adults may help with this
3. Punch colorful origami papers
4. Decorate the snowflakes with the punched papers

Bead Threading for Toddler

Bead threading is an activity which improves their fine motor control, strengthening those little muscles in their hand. I found it also helps for hand and eye coordination and also concentration skill. This activity involves small item: beads, please never leave them unattended while doing this activity.

What you will need:
Beads
Thread (It works well with pipe cleaners too!)

Letter push pin activity

I had this cork board for a long time but didn't have a chance to use it, I was so happy when I saw a lot of toddler activities idea!
This time I'm gonna make an alphabet using the push pins and let her connect it to each other by using colorful elastic bands. 

This activity improves their fine motor control, hand and eye coordination and also concentration skill. This activity involves small item: push pin, please make sure to keep an eye on them and never leave them unattended while doing this activity.
If you don't feel at ease, please don't do this activity with your toddler.

What you need:
Cork board
Push pins
Elastic bands

Eye Dropper Activity for Toddler

I love to teach Jenn while she plays, it's more fun and easier for her to absorb the lesson. Today's activity involves messy play and colors, I put on a plastic bib on her.

What you need:
Eye dropper or pipettes
Food coloring
Thick napkins/paper

All you have to do is teach them how to use the eye dropper and let them explore as long as they want. Eye dropper is a good tool to improve their fine motor skills, have fun! 

Basic Prewritting

It's time for prewritting skill! It's a very basic activity for Jenn, it improves her fine motor skill and get her ready to write at school too. 

This activity also allow me to correct her way to hold a pen. She still needs a lot of practices in prewritting, but it's a good start for her! I'm gonna make more prewritting activity for her, stay tune! =)

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Counting Shape

Jenn enjoyed and did well in this activity, it includes shapes, colors and counting. Let's give it a try!

What you need:
Paper
Marker Pen
Stickers

How:
Print out different shapes for each task, color it with differently too.
They are required to count the shapes and stick down the stickers on the box.

Name Recognition

Jenn is very familiar with alphabets, so I decided to make a name recognition for her. It's a simple sticking sticker activity, which requires them to match the alphabets.

What you need:

Paper

Stickers

Marker Pen

How:

Make circles and write down the alphabets of their name on it

Get the stickers ready and write down alphabets on it too

Hope they will love it too! 

Counting Cards with Clothes Pin

I'm still doing a lot of activity in counting for Jenn, let's make it fun again this time!

What you need:
Cardboard
Origami Papers
Clothes Pin
Scotch Tape
Glue
Scissor

Firstly, write down the numbers on origami papers and cut them out. I made them in different colors, just to make it more colorful. Then cut cardboard into same sizes and glue the numbers on it. I cover the cardboard with scotch tape, just to make it difficult to be torn.

How to play? Just simply ask your toddler to put on the clothes pin on the cardboard, based on the number written on it. Happy counting! 

Dinosaur

Start introducing dinosaur to Jenn, it's another simple sticking stickers activity. 
She still can't do it perfectly, but I'm still proud of her. 
You'll be amazed how they improved from time to time.

What you need:
Cardboard
Markers/pencil colors/crayon
Stickers

I searched the dinosaur from the net, simply printed it out and colored it, don't forget to leave some blank spots for the stickers.

Enjoy the activity! 

Matching Animals

It's been busy days lately, so I just give Jenn a simple activity, it's inspired from creative moms out there.
The activity requires them to match between the animals in the flashcard and the plastic toys.

You need:
Animal Plastic Toys
Animal Flashcards

You may add some information about the animals, eg: how do they sound, where do they live.

DIY Edible Cloud Dough

Firstly, I would really say sorry for postponing the activity posts for a long time, Jenn was down with fever, followed with the rest of the family, and I had to take care of them. Thanks God they recovered now and I get the smiles on the faces back!

I've always wanted to bring Jenn to a beach, let her feel the sand on her tiny feet and play with water. But it's not easy to take her there since we're staying in a metropolitan city full of buildings. Here is an option to introduce her to sand, I made an edible cloud dough for her to play.

Recipe:

• Flour
• Cooking oil (I used olive oil this time)

You may change the cooking oil with baby oil too, but it's not gonna be edible for them!

All you have to do is take some flour, add up some oil, make sure you drop it slowly, or else it will be too sticky. Add up the oil until you get the texture, where you can use it to mold.

I added up some underwater creatures, eg: seahorse, fish, crab, turtle and shell. Let her sense the texture, mold it with the toys and have a lot of fun!

Colorful Toothpicks Activity

I love making DIY toys for Jenn, and this is one of them. It's a simple color recognition activity and also practice their little fingers' muscles.

What you need:

• Empty bottle (I upcycled a mineral water bottle)
• Thick plastic (as the cover)
• Colorful stickers
• Toothpick
• Rubber bands
• Marker

We had to color the toothpicks with markers, we made 6 different colors. You may have more colors, depends on the size of your bottle. Stick on colorful stickers and make a hole, not too big, but just enough to fit in the toothpicks. Cover the bottle with the plastic and secure with rubber bands.

Jenn needs extra patient and concentration to do this activity, but she loves it so much. She will ask for more when all the toothpicks are inside the bottle.

Silly Monster

Jenn watched Monster inc and she loves it! Here's an activity to make silly monsters with so much fun! It involves sticking eyes and mouth stickers.

What you need:
Cardboard
Origami paper
Googly eyes
Stickers

I prepare the monster's shapes, and let Jenn to stick as much eyes as she wants and mouth for each monster.

And this is the result, don't be surprise if the monsters have a very strange look.