little bright sparks: valentines day

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Baby Sensory: H is for Hearts

I love that this theme lasted longer than the session. Before the session I used ideas for the sensory tub to get my 3 year old practising his fine motor skills by threading Cheerios and beads onto pipe cleaners . Then we got to eat the biscuits after the session and got the sensory tub out after the session . Plus we will also use the items in the tub to make valentines cards.

So the session started by simply getting the biscuits and icing augur plus sprinkles and letting them loose. The 6 month old just enjoyed eating a dairy free biscuit made by nanny.

Dylan my 3 year old loved decorating the biscuit . Of course he had to test the toppings first.

Decorating biscuits was all we really did in the session before babies were ready for food and naps.

When we got the tub out later when the babies went Zac was still tired and teething so I left his dummy in so he would put everything in his mouth. He seemed to be interested but wants to eat everything. We will try again with the tub.

I'm disappointed we never got the heart stamping with the kitchen rolls but we might do it at the start of next session.

Dylan was a great helper again and loved the activity too.

Thanks mom for making the biscuits.

Sarah

Xxx

Recycled big art heart mobile

We had a big art session with heart stamps and hand prints to use for hearts, the extra bits I cut into heart shapes.

I then hole punched the too and the bottom of the hearts once and got Dylan to thread wool through to make a mobile.

Good fine motor practise and use of oiled art projects.

Dylan 3.3

Indoor love heart hide and seek

We played this game outside too .

I cut out right hearts and wrote a number on one side and a love message in the other . (I love my mommy)

We took it in turns hiding and seeking .

He soon learned the message that matched the number and I encouraged him to tell me what he found and where to develop his lsnguage and numeracy skills.

Very adaptable idea, helped to talk about what love is and who he loves.

Dylan 3.3

Sweet heart tic tac toe

Great game, good way to get their attention to rmtwzch them if they don't know how to play.

We have played several times. Me three year old gets the idea but still needs help, he started using phrases like have I blocked you! Bless him .

Dylan 3.3

Sweetie Hearts

An extension to the marshmallow placing activity. The love hearts need to carefully be placed inside the heart the right way up without knocking the marshmallows over.

Use of fine motor skills, patience and literacy reading comments snd numeracy counting sweets.

Plus we got to eat them after.

Dylan 3.3

Marshmallow hearts

A good way to encourage my so. To use fine motor skills and develop patience by carefully placing marshmallows around the edge of the heart. It also helps him to learn the terminology for discussing shapes ie edges and hopefully reinforce his ability to recall how to draw a heart.

Plus we get to est marshmallows.

Dylan 3.3

Recycled heart craft cards

We used the hearts from the sensory bin and the heart stamps we had done previously to make valentines day cards.

Quick, easy but effective. I hacmve kept the other hearts for future projects that require hearts .

Happy Valentines Day 2014

Dylan 3.3

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Sword and sand hearts

This was totally unplanned. My son was spending some time in the garden fighting baddies as he would say. Then he noticed his sand pit and started using his sword to mark it. Then I thought I'll draw a heart and see if he can copy it.