SEA GAMES 2015

Did you know you can catch live telecast of SEA Games online?

It's on Youtube and the quality is quite good too! :)

Any event that you can't watch to watch? :D

Fine Motor Skill : Egg Peeling

This activity is simple, fun and delicious. :P

Materials :

• 2 Hard Boil Eggs
• Bowl

Steps :

1. Remove hard boil eggs from pot, run it under tap water and leave it too cool for a while.

2. Once it's cooled (not so hot) you can hand it to your child.

3. You can use 1 egg to demonstrate and the other for your little one to try.

4. My favourite step of all! Consume the peeled egg! *om nom nom nom*

Fine Motor Skill : Pipe Cleaner Fishing Game

Recently joined a Facebook group where mothers shared ideas of activities for toddlers.

A mummy shared this activity and I thought it's very easy and would be fun for my little one.

Only 2-3 materials needed and it's very simple to put them together! :D

Materials : 

• Pipe Cleaners
• Clear container (Bottle/Jar)
• Straw (optional)

Steps : 

1. Twill pipe cleaners into cute "fishes".

2. Make a little hook on one end of the pipe cleaners. You can put it through a straw and it would be easier to hold. :)

3. Place the fishes in container and get your little one to hook them out.

Have fun!

Fine Motor Skill : Packing Toys and Using Chopsticks

Previous post I blogged about the new toys that I made for my little one.

This post is just some of the things you can do with them to practice their fine motor skills.

Packing Toys :

Materials :

• Small Objects
• Zip Lock Pouches

Steps :

1. Putting small objects into small zip lock pouches.

I made 14 small packs of toys for her and she has to keep whatever she takes out.

She also learn to sort the items by picking out the correct items to put into each pouch.

Using Chopsticks: Toddler's level

Materials :

• Small Objects
• Kid's Chopstick
• Bowl/Plates/Bags

Steps :

1. Mix up different objects and let him/her pick it up using chopsticks.

Have been teaching her how to use chopsticks for a while.

She is practising with the small toys and managed to do quite well so far.

She enjoys it and there's no stress that she would drop the food/waste food/dirty the place. :)

Do you have any special item that you use to train your child's chopstick holding skills? Share them with me? :)

Simple Homemade "Toys"

It's no secret that I love making little things for my toddler to pay with.

Just the other day, W was playing with her kitchen toys and I realise she needed some "groceries" and decide to make these for her.

Felt fabrics from Daiso/Popular Bookstore.

They are easy to make and you don't need much skills to make them.

Cherry Tomatoes (pom pom also brought from Daiso)

No need to anything to it at all. :P

Ice Cream / Ice Popsicle

Noodles

Egg (sunny side up)

Bacon

Watermelon (1 slice)

Green Peas

Fries

French Beans & Long Beans

Fishes

Carrots

Pizza

Broccolis and Cauliflowers

Have you made toys for your little one?

Share them with me? :D

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Numbers / Fine Motor Skill : Stickers 1-40

Little one has learned to 1-29, so right now I'm helping her with numbers 30-40.

This week's project is matching numbers and pasting stickers.

Materials:

• Paper
• Printer or Pen/Pencil
• Plain Stickers
• Marker

Steps:
1. Design and print rows of circles with numbers in the middle, or you can also draw and fill in the numbers on your own if you do not own a printer.

2. Using a marker, write numbers on the stickers.

3. For something a little more difficult, try to jumble up the numbers for the next set, or use smaller size stickers. :)

It's a very simple task for toddlers but if you're going thru new numbers with little one do sit by his/her side and read out the new numbers to him/her. :)

Gave little one a jumbled up piece and she got confused after finding number 1.

Would probably keep the jumbled up piece for another day. :D

How do you teach your little one numbers? :)