by Jaimi Erickson | Feb 6, 2012 | activities
Creating patterns can be taught to infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Clapping your hands and encouraging your infant to mimic your claps is exposing him/her to patterns. If your toddler falls down, stands up and does not cry, and you applaud them saying,...
by Jaimi Erickson | Jun 18, 2024 | activities
Teaching number writing skills to preschoolers and kindergarteners can happen more organically than you think. Not every activity has to perfectly connect with the last. That is how my daughter and I stumbled upon this counting and writing number activity. Counting...
by Jaimi Erickson | Jun 10, 2024 | activities
Accidental learning activities are the best. This was one of those. In our preschool time, we accidentally made color wheel color cards and they were all painted by my 2-year-old. You can set this up intentionally to talk about colors, color identification and color...
by Jaimi Erickson | Mar 18, 2024 | activities
You know that carnival game where you pull a rubber duck out of the water and see what symbol is on the bottom? You win a prize if your symbol is the chosen winner. I took that carnival game idea and turned it into this ping pong ball letter match activity for...
by Jaimi Erickson | Mar 1, 2024 | parenting
As a parent, one of the many decisions you will have to make for your child is when to enroll them in swimming lessons. At the same time, some may argue that the earlier, the better. Others believe in waiting until a certain age. This debate over the appropriate age...
