I had fun with this one! The dough is homemade and has kept for a couple months now in ziplocs. This was the first week so I put in a cookie cutter, rolling cutter, and a laminated copy of the square road map.
After seeing in circle week that holding the color wheel and clipping was too hard I cut the lip of a food container and gave him little clips to practice with. Part way through the week I swapped out the small clips for regular sized ones. They aren’t that much harder to open and they are more sturdy and easier for him to grip.
The Form Fitter has been a hit, we return to it at every age. One side opens so last year he learned to dump the pieces out and put them back in through the door. Now he can put some of the simple shapes through their holes. It is pretty tricky even for me because some of the pieces look very similar.
We love our magnadoodle! The shape stampers are perfect for introduce the shapes and going over their names. I also write out each shape name and sound it out for him a few times each week.
I’d rather get these posts up without links than not at all. If you want more information on any of the toys or printables you see just comment and I’ll try to get back to you.
This is great! Especially the smile at the end 🙂 Fo you leave the grid of trays out all the time, meaning, on a given day does he chose which he wants to do or do you put them out day by day? Thanks, love this blog 🙂
Our setup is not my ideal one. His trays are in our living room and accessible all day. I put them all out on Sunday afternoon and leave them there all week. We have a designated school time where I present new trays and/or encourage him to choose one to work on. Sometimes he will get a favorite tray out again later, or I’ll suggest it again later in the day if we are looking for something to do. And sometimes he will randomly scatter a tray’s contents on the floor, but that is pretty rare now. For the most part, though, our routine doesn’t leave us much extra time and he uses his free time to play with his favorite activities that are always out (tractors, kitchen, and few random toys). Hope this gives you some food for thought!
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This is great! Especially the smile at the end 🙂 Fo you leave the grid of trays out all the time, meaning, on a given day does he chose which he wants to do or do you put them out day by day? Thanks, love this blog 🙂
Our setup is not my ideal one. His trays are in our living room and accessible all day. I put them all out on Sunday afternoon and leave them there all week. We have a designated school time where I present new trays and/or encourage him to choose one to work on. Sometimes he will get a favorite tray out again later, or I’ll suggest it again later in the day if we are looking for something to do. And sometimes he will randomly scatter a tray’s contents on the floor, but that is pretty rare now. For the most part, though, our routine doesn’t leave us much extra time and he uses his free time to play with his favorite activities that are always out (tractors, kitchen, and few random toys). Hope this gives you some food for thought!
Yes it does, thank you so much!