Busy Bigger Bit: More Tot School Workboxes

Here's a few of the things that have been in Bigger Bit's "workboxes" this week.  If she doesn't enjoy an activity and use it, we just take it out and introduce it again later.. at her age, we give her "workboxes" and "school work" more because she wants to be included in what we're doing...
She's loved this letter D coloring page from Super Coloring.  She's colored the same page 3 times in the last week, in fact, because she has enjoyed it so much!  She tries to color all the polka dots a different color, which makes her laugh.

Since she liked the letter D coloring page so much, I introduced an activity to fill in the outline of the letter D with pompoms.  She always user her pincer grasp to pick up the pompoms and get them in the right spot, so it's good fine motor skills development while reinforcing the letter shape.

She's also been working with (mostly tracing with her finger) the uppercase D from the Montessori-Inspired DIY tactile letter cards I made recently.

I picked up a set of acorn-shaped acrylic gems at the craft store, and introduced her to a sort-by-color activity with two of the colors in the set.  The whole time she worked with them, she kept saying how pretty they are...



I used another set of the same Acorns to introduce a "numeral and counter" type activity (we only went up to 3).

She's been working on size sorting with the printable set from my Autumn Apples Extension Set #1

I put the book A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson in her workboxes, thinking that she'd like to look at the pictures, but she's also been enjoying having it read to her (so have the other kids, actually). I'm fond of poetry, and I think these short poems are a wonderful introduction for young children.

She also has this Montessori-Inspired DIY magnetic "numeral and counter" activity in her workboxes this week.  She can't quite do it by herself yet, but Bub always helps her out.  (Just to note, they usually play on a whiteboard, but when I was taking pictures, the whiteboard was in the bedroom of a sleeping baby, so I just used the fridge to demo).

I re-introduced this shape puzzle into her workboxes, which I've had put away for a while.  She enjoyed it, and wasn't too challenged by it, so it made a nice "quiet time" activity for her while the other kids were busy.

Finally, while it's not in her workboxes and not an official part of "tot school", she's been really enjoying exploring our Autumn Apples sensory bin this week.

We're always looking for new ideas, both for "tot school" and for the other kids!  Leave us a comment here or on our Facebook page, telling us what ideas, activities, games, crafts, etc. you are exploring this week!

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