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Building and strengthening those little fine motor muscles are crucial in the early childhood years. Strong fine motor skills will come in handy as children learn self-help skills (for example, getting dressed, especially buttoning and zipping) and they take center stage with skills like drawing and writing. Because of that, I’m always looking for ways [...]

I haven’t been posting much lately, but last week we put something together and I stopped long enough to snap a couple of pictures of the process because this would be a great, cheap, rainy day activity for toddlers! Wagon Jr. was “Star of the Week” at preschool last week, so we came up with [...]

Finding activities for toddlers that are not only fun, but educational and inexpensive as well can be a challenge. I find that more times than not it’s the simplest activities that keep my children the happiest for the longest amounts of time. Take for example these color coded stickers. One afternoon while cleaning out my [...]

I’ve always been especially anxious to teach the kids how to swim because we live in South Florida near the ocean and spend a lot of time around pools. So last week, R + M started swimming lessons. We started off on Monday morning with two year olds who didn’t hate the water, but didn’t really [...]

I love reading about art activities for toddlers, so today I have put together a round-up of all the art activities Otis has tried in the past two years. Art experiences are often limited by what is safe. Children are prone to putting things in their mouth, so parents need to use supervision and discretion [...]

It’s empowering for toddlers to be involved in preparing their own food.  I try to think of my children’s favorite foods and consider how they can (working to their capabilities) become involved. For Otis the obvious starting point was bananas. The first time he helped to prepare snack was peeling banana pieces at 12 months. [...]

Today I thought it would be fun to share some of our favourite practical life activities. I know these are all really obvious activities, but sometimes we forget how much toddlers love helping and how important it is for their development.