Our focus on the color green and St. Patrick’s Day combined to make a fun March! The toddlers were immersed with green manipulatives, green play dough, green sensory bins, green snacks, and green crafts. After reading Little Blue and Little Yellow -we discovered that green is created from mixing blue and yellow. The leprechaun hid gold coins which the toddlers traded in for a rainbow snack. We also created a green wand in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.
The toddlers spent time doing lots of activities revolving around our color of the month: GREEN
Green play dough, green crafts, green leprechauns, green shamrocks, green paint, green mystery can, etc.
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations start out with a sensory bin of water beads, gold coins, and scoops.
We created leprechaun beards by painting with a fork.
We heard the leprechaun was running around Creative Tots. The toddler class traveled to the studio to look for him and found gold coins! We practiced finding and counting treasure.
We continued with our study of green by creating a “green tent” for our color book.
Moving into spring with a sensory bin filled with eggs, butterflies, bunnies, and flowers. Some children practiced scooping while others sorted by color or type. The older children began to make patterns (a pre-literacy and math skill).
Matching Eggs…
Matching jelly beans. Practice with one to one correspondence and color matching. Also, an exercise in patience. We had to match them all before we got to eat one as a treat.
Some fine motor skills are practiced when creating washi tape eggs.
Chalk eggs for our new easel.
Gross motor practice….Feed the bunny.
Painting feet for footprint bunnies.
Happy Holidays, from the toddler room! We have all new holiday-themed centers, and have been doing different holiday-themed activities in our small groups. See some of our holiday learning activities below!
We did a color matching game, using different colored “ornaments” to decorate a Christmas tree
Since green is our color of December, we made our own green play-dough, and then used Christmas tree cookie cutters and beads to decorate it.
Time to play and decorate!
Building the letter “K” using jingle bells!
During group time we read, “Camping in Green.”
Next, Ms. Laurel talked about different green items, like frogs and broccoli, as the toddlers placed them on the board.
Then the toddlers explored more green items in the discovery tubs.
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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