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!)

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! 

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.

Uppercase and Lowercase Alphabets

These are simple activities to introduce your children about uppercase and lowercase alphabets. Jenn learned about uppercase and lowercase from the first time she learned about alphabets. I have an abc chart which contains uppercase and lowercase, I found it was very helpful, you can get it at the nearest bookshop.

We need paper, marker and magnetic alphabets for this activity. Draw circles and write down uppercase alphabets on a piece of paper. Make sure it's not too small for the magnetic alphabets.

First activity is to match the uppercase alphabets on the paper with the lowercase magnetic alphabets (it can be found in almost every online toy shop).

The second activity requires alphabet stickers, paper, marker and ruler. Draw boxes on the paper and write down a lowercase alphabets on it.

This activity require the children to match the lowercase and uppercase alphabets by sticking on the stickers. 

Sorting Shapes

Jenn learned about shapes and she knows them quite well, you may wanna check out the activity about Introductions to shapes over here. It's time for sorting shapes!

What you need:

• Origami paper
• Glue
• Marker
• Paper

Prepare the activity by cutting some shapes on the origami paper, we had circle, triangle, square and rectangle. Then draw the shapes as the header on a piece of paper. This activity simple require them to sort the shapes and stick on the origami paper under each group.

The result is quite messy, maybe we should use different paper for different shape. Have fun! =)