Coaching toddlers

  HAMMERING A PUMPKIN WITH GOLF TEES fine motor activity for toddlers  It was hard the first time we did it, most of them needed help to start but then the following days the wholes were already done so it was more enjoyable for them. Supplies : - 10 or more toy hammers - plenty golf trees - one or more pumpkin The set up : Just put the pumpkin (s) on the table.  Have your students choose a hammer, five each a handful if tees and demonstrate what to do. The reason I like to have more hammers than children is for the last one have choice too.

  JACK-O-LANTERN SHAPE MATCHING Geometry activity for toddlers I cut out some circles in orange construction paper, drew two triangles for the eyes, a square for the nose and a semi-circle for the mouth.   I protected them with contact paper then cut the same shapes out of black paper and protected them as well. Then I put a piece of two sided tape on each shape of the pumpkin. I displayed them on the table during free play. I love how that one year old is working with her beverage and cell phone next to her.

  UMBRELLA craft for toddlers

 

  SOME APPLES ARE YELLOW An apple poem for toddlers. Receptive language. Some apples are yellow (Show a cut up yellow paper apple, or a real one) Some apples are green ( Show a green one) Most of them are red though (Show a red apple)   All apples are round ( Circle around an apple with your pointer finger) All apples are sweet (Lick your lips)   They grow in a tree (Make an open arms tree pose) And fall to the ground (Crouch down) I pick one up (Pretend to do so) I wash it up (Pretend) I eat it up (Pretend to eat an invisible apple) Yum! (Make a circle on your tummy, with an open hand) I pick some more (Pretend) I bring them home (Make a roof/triangle above your head with your hands) One apple a day (Show one pointer finger) Keeps the doctor away. (Bend down your fingers a few times  in a goodbye gesture) How I set up the activity: I do it during circle time, in advance I cut up a bunch of yellow, green and red apples, using construction paper.  I always give something to my students

 RED BARN ART PROJECT FOR TODDLERS  Our book of the week is "Big Red Barn", so it is inspired by it.  We started with the barn that I drew remembering my art class lesson in high-school about perspective (I'm not an artist and we don't have to be).  The grass is a 11 inches piece of green streamer.  I spread some glue on the barn then asked the children to flip it over and put it the the paper.  Then I put glue on the barn and gave them little craft sticks.  The following days we add a pig, a horse and a sheep.  I'm not an artist, I Googled "how to draw a pig and I to draw a horse and followed the directions.   If I sis it you can do it too.

 

 

  SHEEP CRAFT FOR TODDLERS Supplies : - White crinkle cut shredded filler - Black construction paper - White glue I gave a bunch of the paper to each child and instructed to make a ball by showing how.  Then I asked them where they wanted the sheep to be on their barn project and put a good amount of glue.  Then asked to put the bundle on the glue and press while I counted 10 seconds.  I put more glue on top then asked to put the head on it and, again, hold it there for 10 seconds.  Make sure to let dry flat, don't hang, the glue and paper would drip down.  Here is the full barn project: https://coachingtoddlers.blogspot.com/2022/10/red-barn-art-project-for-toddlers.html