It’s Thursday! Yesterday was the average last frost date for Durham, NC. This is the time to plant many things in vegetable gardens, and it should be a lovely afternoon for messing around in the dirt.
Sensory/Fine Motor Invitation: Gardening
You can do this inside with some child-safe potting soil (some potting soils contain fertilizers which are not meant to be directly ingested by humans), or outside in the dirt. Plant seeds (seeds stay viable for several years), new plants, or transplant something. Toddlers can help digging holes, pushing seeds into the earth, and watering.
Working in the garden engages the natural scientist in young children while developing fine and large motor skills.
Art Invitation: Markers and paper
This classic invitation is especially engaging when you change the size of the paper, very tiny and very large paper each change children’s approach and experience with the materials.
Markers present an opportunity for creative expression, mark making, and fine motor development.
Music/Movement Invitation: “Ring Around the Roses”
Children love this classic movement song. At LACS, we like to sing two verses:
Ring around the rosie
pockets full of posies
ashes, ashes
we all fall down.
Cows are in the meadow,
eating buttercups.
Thunder! Lightening!
We all jump up!
Outdoor Invitation: Hula Hoops
You can sing and dance to the above song in the traditional way, holding hands and moving in a circle, or get out a hula hoop and hold on to that. What else can your toddler do with a hula hoop?
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