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Aug
3

Sink, or Float?

Posted in Bits and Pieces, Child Development, Games for Babies, Things to do

Learning about “order” in the world is a fascinating subject for children. He learns about physics and the law of gravity when he drops the spoon from the high chair. She discovers the wonder of plants when she watches a seed turn into a flower.

Here’s a fun summer activity for babies, all the way up through preschoolers.

Get a plastic tub (the kind you use to wash dishes in while camping works great), and fill it with water. Find a variety of objects that either sink or float or both. Sponges, plastic animals, a plastic bowl, a wooden spoon, a rubber duck, a ball, a small strainer (look in your utensil drawer for ideas), ice cubes, a hotel sized bar of soap.

If you add a squeeze of dish soap after you’ve filled the washtub with water, show your child how to whip up a froth of bubbles with the wooden spoon or a whisk.

You might even buy some colored bath tablets, and let your child pick two colors. What happens when he drops in the first one? What happens when he adds the second? (Of course, you know the answer – the point is for your child to discover the “order” of the color wheel.)

Then let her experiment and learn. About the order of things that sink. Or float. Or both.

­-posted by Miss Analiisa, who at times wishes she could simply experiment and play with the order of things, rather than always having to make things orderly. Like the living room, before the cleaner comes.

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Jul
23

Free Outdoor Activities

Posted in Bits and Pieces, Things to do, family, parenting

We’ve had this gorgeous summer weather for the past two weeks yet all I seem to hear from my kids is “Can I play a video game?” I realized that when my kids start asking to play electronics too often, it just means they need a little motivation to go outside. So I have come [...]

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Jun
21

Games for Babies: Croquet and Chicken Ball

Posted in Games for Babies, Things to do, parenting

These ideas in the Games for Babies Series can be played with babies 9 months and up, but my children play these well into their preschool years. Croquet What you’ll need: Ping pong balls Wooden spoons In its simplest form, you use the wooden spoons to play a “free-form” version of croquet all around the [...]

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Jun
18

Auditory Discrimination (It’s politically correct!)

Posted in Child Development, Things to do, parenting

The word “discrimination” tends to get a bad rap. It’s actually a very important skill. Especially when it comes to your sense of hearing. For instance, I don’t want to open my front door, call my children by name in to dinner, and have all the neighborhood kids appear. (Well, that might be a compliment [...]

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Apr
27

In My Heart.

Posted in Bits and Pieces, Our Time, Things We Love, family

I was privileged to witness a most wonderful thing today. It happened in an Our Time class.  We were playing a word game. Games that are about word play and give the kids the opportunity to fill in the blank can be very dangerous- you just never know what is going to come out of [...]

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Apr
17

Games for Babies: Star Tracking

Posted in Child Development, Games for Babies, Things to do

Babies aren’t born with the ability to accurately and smoothly direct their eye movements; it’s something they learn over time. Eventually, good visual tracking skills allow us to follow a line of print without losing our place. My son Rob had poor visual tracking, and we ended up seeing a behavioral ophthalmologist and doing “eye [...]

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