How to help toddler to review the letters without making review boring? Just pretend you don’t want toddler to show you some knowledge. Toddlers like to do everything on the contrary. They will do everything you don’t want them to do and will say “no” to everything you want them to do.

All letters are learned, the first words are read, but when reading became boring let’s put books away and have fun eating sweet gingerbread cookies with favorite letters.

Just ask what letter he or she would like to eat:)

Even food ideas for toddler can make us creative.

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Here in Ukraine we buy Christmas tree before New Year because we celebrate Christmas on 7th of January.

But what should little toddler do when it’s so long till New Year but Christmas tree is wanted so much?

Of course decorate some other tree (or plant), for example, Aloe.

You can sing your favorite Christmas songs with toddler while decorating Aloe:)

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If you wondering what new activity or art project ideas for your toddler to entertain while the weather is bad you can try in December with toddler I hope this post can help you.
It’s very simple but at the same time positive activity for some reasons.
It’s very cheap.
It’s easy even for 18 month old toddlers.
It’s develop imagination and train fine motor skills.
It’s funny.

You can do a doggy.

You can do a car.

You can do a pig’s house and your child can pretend to be a wolf and blow it away

You can do a robot and blow away it too.

You can build even house for yourself

All that masterpieces we did listening to my daughter’s favorite Micky Mouse Christmas songs. I can’t imagine how did I live without Micky Mouse:) Is it t
he same with you?

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I know that things we don’t allow to touch our children are the most interesting.
Things we can’t afford also like a magnets for us – adults. It’s our nature.

If you don’t allow to touch a knife your toddler will dream about possibility to take it secretly. But if you allow to play with it (in your presence) knife will become a very usual thing and will be forgotten very soon.

For this purpose cutting banana was really good activity besides it’s good training for little hands.

Besides it’s good idea for making food for toddler together.

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Winter for toddlers starts with stories we tell them about winter. This Christmas story for toddler with activities is about Christmas tree and while you’ll be telling the story your toddler can help you to color and decorate a Christmas tree for your story.

Christmas tree is one of the most favorite symbols of winter and Christmas. It’s so beautiful and trim. We find presents under our Christmas tree. How can we be indifferent to it after all?

The story is based on the Andersen’s fairy tale about fir tree. I make is shorter and easier to be not too difficult and long to listen for toddlers. The Andersen’s fairy tale has sad end (to my mind) so I decided to skip it. When my daughter will be older I’ll read the fool story but for present moment I prefer stories with happy end.

So in order to be prepared to tell the story you need to make two fir trees: little and big.

As you see it’s very easy for everyone. If your toddler like to color you can ask to color the fir trees.

For scenery we used a picture of wood from our paper theatre.

Once apon a time there was a little fir tree. The little fir tree had one eager desire. It wanted to become grown up.

Every day little fir tree was grumbling at its small stature. But day after day it was growing and growing and one day little fir tree discored that it was not so small. Now it was almost grown up.

One day Micky Mouse and Minnie mouse came to the forest to find suitable fir tree for Christmas.
(My daughter’s favorite character is Micky Mouse, so we use his here. But you may use a favorite toy of your child)

A fir tree was very happy that Micky Mouse decided to choose it and took home. Fir tree thought it was very important mission to be a Christmas tree.

Micky and Minnie decorated their beautiful Christmas tree. (For decoration cut different shapes from paper of different colors. Put some glue and give them to your toddler to decorate the tree. While decorating you can review the colors and shapes.)

Christmas tree is ready.

Micky and Minnie were very happy to have so pretty Christmas tree and fir tree was very happy to be so dainty. it was so proud of itself that even didn’t look at people in the room. What a solemn look it had when children found a lot of presents under the Christmas tree!

But when the Christmas gone Christmas tree started to miss the forest and it was very sorry that it wanted to grow up so quickly. Christmas tree thought that it had spent too little time enjoying its age.

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Organizing art project for a toddler you should remember one very important thing. The art doesn’t like intrusion. Toddler should learn to feel the art and have their own opinion even if it’s different from yours. I mean that showing some pictures made by artists we don’t have to express our own judgement until we are asked.

How to Inspire a Toddler for Some Art Project?

1. Showing the paintings of famous artists

Here is good Doman method even if you don’t use it at all. Don’t think that such small children can’t understand such paintings. It’s not true. Perhaps they can understand it even better than we do because their mind isn’t overloaded with stereotypes. In other words, you can pour the tea only in the empty or half empty cup. We should always left some place for something new…

2. Painting and drawing yourself will make a toddler curious about your activity.
Paint and don’t ask toddler to join you. To pain with you will be the hottest desire:) They always want to try the things we do, not the things we ask them to try:)

3. Give new paints and paper
Something new always creates interest even if a toddler is familiar with paints and painting.

4. Don’t insist on this activity in you don’t see the interest
Insisting makes all attempts in vain. Do you like when someone force you to do something?

5. Don’t try to teach how to paint if you are not asked.
Let create the mood and impressions on the paper. The main thing is the process and positive emotions not the paintings.

By the way we are still singing Fun And Simple Christmas Songs

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From February my daughter is waiting for Christmas and snow:) It’s hard to find kids who doesn’t like Christmas. Learning fun and simple Christmas songs is interesting, useful and joyful activity for every child of all ages (from 6 month  old till 100 years old).  But the most benefit is for toddlers and babies. They are learning about year and nature with help of good emotions they receive from different holidays and family traditions.

My daughter loves Micky Mouse so much that she loves everything about him and his friends. Recently we found Disney’s Family Christmas Collection and she really enjoy it.

Here is her favorite video with those great Christmas songs.

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