Sharing our Valentine's Day Activity Trays for young toddlers (1.5yrs and older). Don't forget to PIN this for inspiration and for future reference!
Flower Arrangement
A simple flower arrangement activity using the flowers we have in the kitchen. I didn't put water in the vase so he won't get distracted (he likes water). He loved placing the flowers on the vase, but above all, he learned a few new words with this activity: vase, flowers, tulips and pink.
Tray from Ikea.
Valentine's Sensory Bottle
Beware, this is a messy activity so prepare yourself! Max loves our sensory bottles, so I decided to make a shaker using our red rice and some craft materials. Its max first time to use a funnel, so he was fascinated by this little material. More pictures in my IG account!
OBJECTIVES: fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, introduce color red, vocabulary words (rice, heart, pour etc)
Sweeping
Another messy activity! He can't control the brush yet so he brushed the rice everywhere, good thing we have vacuum :D You can get this brush from here.
OBJECTIVE: fine motor skills,
Posting Buttons
OBJECTIVES: hand-eye coordination, introducing shapes and colors
Flower Object to Object/Object to Abstract Matching
Max loves this activity! Currently we are just using the object-object matching (no cards yet). I made use of our two sets
of Safari Toobs Flower figures for this activity and homemade matching cards which you can download for free here.
OBJECTIVES: vocabulary words (flowers), visual discrimination
Heart and Dot Markers
I'm absolutely delighted that Max loves this as well! Another activity for hand-eye coordination and refining fine motor skills. I'm using
this and this markers.
OBJECTIVES: introduce the heart shape, introduce color red, hand-eye coordination
Color Grade Matching
A challenging activity for Max, and probably his least favourite activity tray. We worked on this once and he didn't asked for this again. A friend gave this to me ages ago.
OBJECTIVES: visual discrimination, color matching, color grading
Finger Painting
Max was hesitant to touch the paint at first but then I showed him how to cover the heart with the red paint using his hands. After a few complaints, he got used to it and enjoyed the slimy feel of the paint.
OBJECTIVES: introduce the heart shape, introduce color red, sensory activity
Transferring Heart Counters using Spoon (Pouring)
OBJECTIVE: fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spooning
Have you tried any of these activities?
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