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Animal Mix Up Legos

June 15, 2011 by Jenae — 36 Comments

This little activity was super easy and ~~the boys~~ Big Brother loved it! Little Brother has had a fever (again!) yesterday and this morning, so he is CRANKY! Nothing pleases that child today.

Here’s what you’ll need: Legos, packing tape and pictures of animals fit to size. You can download the one I used here…it fits our 2.5″x1.5″ (2 combined) Lego Duplos.

1. Put 2 of your Legos together and measure their combined length and width.

2. Print off pictures to size. You can download mine here.

3. Cut each animal in half…not a real animal, the picture of the animal. For Heaven’s sakes, I don’t want to be contacted by PETA.

4. Tape each on the legos.

Make sure to line them up if they don’t fit your Lego exactly. Rinse and repeat for the other animals. Okay, don’t really rinse…just repeat.

5. Scatter the pieces on the floor.

6. Let your child match the top to the corresponding bottom.

See? I told you he was grumpy. I wanted to get a picture of the animals jumbled just for fun, but I was in a frantic rush to get this cranky-pants to bed!

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Filed Under: 2-3 years, 3-5 years, Cognitive Development, Fine Motor, On the Farm

People, Places, Things Farm Sort

May 4, 2011 by Jenae — 2 Comments

Big Brother has been sick for the last three days, so we have been stuck in the house (again). I decided we needed an easy brain-stimulating activity (and a few minutes with the television turned off), so I came up with this little sorting game.

I printed off several pictures from our trip to the Dairy Farm, as well as a few extra pictures to have enough for each category.

1. Cut your pictures out.

2. Label three bowls “People, Places, and Things.”

4. Give your child the pictures and let them start sorting. If you have a young preschooler, you’ll need to assist at first.

Big Brother LOVED this “game” and wanted to do it over and over again!

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Filed Under: 3-5 years, Cognitive Development, On the Farm

Toddler Time: Matching Animals to Pictures

April 27, 2011 by Jenae — 4 Comments

After our visit to the Dairy Farm yesterday, I figured this would be a great activity for Little Brother. I just printed off pictures of 3 animals (cow, pig, and sheep) that I found online and then used our “Little People” toys as props.

1. Just line the pictures up and then say, “Look, it’s a pig. Can you put this on top of the picture of the pig?”

2. Continue with the remaining animals. Little Brother wasn’t exactly sure what to do at first, but he quickly caught on.

Adjust the number of pictures/animals for the age of your child. For children younger than 18 months, I would suggest doing just 2 pictures.

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Filed Under: 1-2 Years, 2-3 years, Cognitive Development, On the Farm

Visit to the Dairy Farm

April 26, 2011 by Jenae — 4 Comments

Our church playgroup went to a nearby dairy farm today! We had so much fun!!! If you ever have the opportunity to visit one, I would highly recommend it! Here are some of my favorite pictures from our visit…

Little Brother was so excited about the cows…

…he kept saying “moo” when he saw a cow and “wawa” (water) whenever there was a puddle

All of the littles and the Mamas in the barn

We even got to watch the cows being milked…it was very interesting!

Big Brother didn’t really know what to think about this part…

My favorite part was getting to see the calves! SO cute!

Don’t you just want to kiss this sweet face??? :)

The rain began as we were leaving, so we were a little muddy by the time we made it home. Our special outing certainly made for a wonderful and eventful afternoon!

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Filed Under: 1-2 Years, 2-3 years, 3-5 years, On the Farm

Chicken Beak Counting and Guessing Game

April 7, 2011 by Jenae — 6 Comments

This “game” incorporates both fine motor and cognitive development and emphasizes number recognition, counting, one-to-one correspondence, and hypothesizing. Talk about packing a punch!

We pretended that the tweezer was a chicken beak and Big Brother practiced putting the corresponding number of popcorn kernels into the egg carton (which I made several months back). We then transferred the kernels into plastic eggs and listened to the sound of the kernels, guessing how many he thought was inside.

Here’s what you’ll need: interactive counter, a bag of un-popped popcorn, tweezers, and 6 plastic Easter eggs.