Muffin Tin Activity 🧁

Activity 1
Supplies - Muffin Tin
                 Balls
               
Muffin tin ball transfer encourages developmental skills such as hand-eye coordination (including reaching and grasping skills), strengthening of the core and upper body muscles needed for crawling, and problem solving for motor skills (aka-motor planning). If you use different textured balls this is also good for sensory . 

Older children can also use the balls to make different patterns in the tins.

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Activity 2:
Supplies- Muffin Tin
                Pom poms
                Dry Erase Marker

Use the dry erase marker to write the number and number points inside of the muffin holders.

This is more for preschool age children . This helps with number recognition and fine motor skills (grasping Pom poms)

Trapped Animals Fine Motor Activity

Hello!

Supplies - rubber bands and plastic animals

All you do is wrap a rubber band around the animal and your child will use their fine motor skills to attempt to unwrap the animal!

I would recommend supervising this activity due to the rubber bands!

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Sensory Bags / Bottles🔮

Supplies

-Random small objects(confetti,small decor,durable stickers,beads, plastic animals etc...)

-Hair Gel

-Durable Tape

-Baggies

-Water

-Oil

-Food Coloring 

For the Bags I just used small objects,hair gel, ziplock bags , and tape.

1. Tape all 4 sides of the baggie (front and back)

2. Place the baggie inside another baggie

3.Squeeze gel into bag

4. Dump objects into bag

5. Tape all the sides again 

There’s a lot of ways to do sensory bottles and some of them require more supplies than others

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http://www.playideas.com/25-sensory-bottles-toddlers/?m



Here are some bags I have made 

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Favorite Board Books

Here are a list of board books-geared more for babies and toddlers. A majority of them are touch and feel or flap books!

“Dear Zoo”

“Peek a Who”

“Farm”

“Open the Barn Door”

“Where is Baby’s Belly Button”

“I Thought I saw a Lion”

“Best Mouse Cookie”

“Little Finger Puppet Board Books”

“How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight”

“Flaptastic:Colors”

“Birthday Cake”

- Disney Touch and Feel Books

“Never Touch a Dinosaur “ 

Tape Pull Fine Motor Activity

Hey!

This is super easy and kept my son busy !

All you need is masking tape and random objects ( I used magnets )

Tape the objects to the floor or a table and have your child try and pick the objects up. They will have to manipulate their fingers in new ways in order to get the objects away from the tape and off of the floor.


This activity helps fine motor skills and object recognition. My magnets were animals shapes . So you could say, “ Find the pig, ducks, etc.” For older children you could do this to practice letter/number recognition(if you have letter or number magnets).

Love yassssss 💖

Pasta Fun

Hey !

If you read my last post I spoke about checking your local libraries for activities. Today we went to the Greenfiled Library Story Time and I just wanted to show you guys the kids area at this library! I know when you think of a library you might think of it as being  dirty, but this library is clean and child friendly. Here’s a video of a play area (just showing you how clean it is)

The other day my son was driving me crazy!!!! Everything was making him cry sooooo I threw some rice in a bin with plastic vegetables and animals and it seemed to calm him down and he was content. If you have older kids you can do this activity but have them practice writing their names or sight words in the rice with their finger.

I am very OCD about the house so as soon as he’s done I clean up or my anxiety can’t take it!

Yesterday I made dyed noodles for him to play in. I didn’t have spaghetti so I used a pack of ramen noodles and they worked just as well!
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1. Boil noodles
2. Drain Noodles
3. Divide noodles into zip lock bags(if your planning on making more than one color)
4. Squirt 15 drops of your choice of food coloring color into each bag
5. Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to each bag
6. Shake each bag until the noodles are completely covered  in dye
7.Lay out  noodles (I put mine in a tray)
8.Let dry for 24 hours
     I did not have the prettiest of colors, but they turned out! Also remember that the color will be more dull when the dye dries.

He played in this and ended up throwing them on the floor and squishing the noodles in his hands.
His hands were not stained but I would recommend taking off white socks because he was stepping on noodles. The noodles did NOT stain my floor!

Here is a picture of the noodles before they Dried and a picture after
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After

Before

Both of these activities help children develop fine motor skills, color recognition, vocabulary skills , and get them used to new textures.

I would recommend this for ages 12month-5 Years . I would not do this if you’re fearful of them eating small pieces of noodles or rice

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Indoor activites

Hello All

I wanted to share some places to go in the winter !

I also would like to remind you to check your local  libraries because a majority of them have programs different days of the week that offer things to do for free !

My son and I actually did Lap Sit Story Time at the Greenfield Library and it’s free!

I have also noticed that the Fishers Library has a playroom that is open to the public when they aren’t using it for other activities.

I have not tried this out yet ,but Conner Prairie also has an area for toddlers-preschoolers annnnddd it’s inside!  

We have tried Urban Chalkboard multiple times and love the Babies Music Class (this is not free)

Here a link below with some other ideas! 

https://indywithkids.com/free-indoor-playgrounds-indianapolis/

https://indywithkids.com/places-play-indoors-indianapolis/

Sincerely 

Hot Mess Mom (that drinks a little 🍷)