Terrific Toddler Activities for Share it Saturday

Toddlers are always changing, growing, and learning, that is why this week I wanted to focus on toddler activities. There were so many amazing choices so I picked out a few of my favorites to share with you. I was so excited about them I spent the day printing and laminating for my toddler. Featured here today you will find counting, alphabet, animals, printables and many other perfect activities. 

 These Match and Count Cards from Powerful Mothering are so fun.

Stir the Wonder is sharing a wonderful Montessori inspired alphabet box.

I love these Montessori Inspired phonics activities from Living Montessori Now

I was so excited to see these wonderful forest animal activities and printables from Welcome to Mommyhood .

I would love for you to check out our autumn activities and see how much we enjoy the fall.

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I am loving all of these wonderful posts we get to read each week. 

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Teach Beside Me

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Learning the Alphabet with Activities and Crafts from A to Z

How much fun is teaching and learning the alphabet?!?! The answer is soooo much fun. If you are looking for some great ways to get your children learning their abc's, look no further. I have packed this page full of fabulous information, crafts, games, sensory play, printables, and more. All for you and your little one. 

You can check out all of our Letter of the Week activities 
here at Natural Beach Living.

Letter of the Week Alphabet

How about a little Sensory Play with a wonderful alphabet book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom at the Beach. 

Head over to Teachers of Good Things to see how to teach your children the alphabet with Lego's

Seven Thirty Three shares a fun and easy letter matching game

Learning the alphabet with Nightcrawlers from The Natural Homeschool. The alphabet mixed with Science...Awesome!

Living Montessori Now  has many different DIY alphabet boxes, perfect for getting organized too.

You definitely want to check out this amazing abc alphabet flower garden from Buggy and Buddy.

toddler APPROVED has a terrific abc matching game with a train and a super cool sticky wall, check them out.

Lemon Lime Adventures shares an icy i-spy alphabet adventure.

Crystal & Co will have you crafting through the alphabet with these fun projects.

ALLterNATIVELearning has a wonderful themes planer which includes the alphabet. I love free printables, don't you?

totschooling has a great alphabet sorting game with free printables to get your little one learning.

Letter P tot school from The Kavanaugh Report is Perfect!

 Letter S week from Wildflower Ramblings was soooo sweet.

School time Snippets, has an abc Carrot Patch sensory experience that is adorable.


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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Alphabet Play

It's Spring time here and guess what that means? Rain, Rain and more Rain. At least that is what it was feeling like this past week. So I decided to bring a little sunshine into our house, and of course make it a fun learning day. One of our favorite books right now is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. So while the kids were asleep I set up a sensory and alphabet experience for the whole family to enjoy.  

Let's go over the quick and easy list of what you need. (Affiliate links provided for convenience)

  The book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (of course), a container for sensory play (this is a $7 container from Walmart), play sand, a coconut, a few sand toys, a palm tree and letters. 

I purchased the sand toys, palm tree, and letters from the dollar store. 

I really wanted to cheer the house up from the gloominess, so I went all out. I brought in beach chairs, laid out a huge beach blanket, hung a cute (dollar store) Tiki sign up, all under our fabulous Elves & Angels Playstands . I didn't stop there... We got into our bathing suits for the day. It was awesome!

I love incorporating great books into our play, the kids seem to really enjoy the fun and the learning.
They were singing the alphabet song, talking about the letters and sounds. The rain didn't stop us.
We must have read the book at least 10 times that day. It is so nice to watch the children play, and the fact that they are learning so many great lessons too, makes mommy happy.

Are you incorporating sensory learning into your day? I'd love to hear about it, and if you would like other sensory play ideas follow my Sensory Board on Pinterest . You will find hundreds of great ideas. . 

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Letter of the Week Preschool D

I have been having fun these days with Little B. This is such an exciting stage in life with so much to do and learn. Of course I seem to feel that way about every stage. Teaching the alphabet is so important and of course a vital part in the beginning stages for reading, writing, and the path to their success in learning.

I waited patiently for Little B to show signs of interest in the alphabet and it has happened. He is so  excited now to learn the alphabet, writing, and first steps to reading. Yay!!! I am  working with him on a Letter of the week curriculum. I say curriculum but really it's so much more than that. I'm using mostly 1+1+1=1 and letter of the week for fabulous printables. I add great books, puzzles, sensory play and more to create a well rounded learning experience.

This week little B was working on the letter D. Here is my set-up for his trays and table.Some of the trays I put out for this week are his Dog pattern board, a tray of dinosaurs, a basket of dolls with clothes (perfect for practical life), a tray with dice (perfect for math and counting practice), and a sand tray for letter practice.

I usually change the tray and table set-up 2-3 times a week. Here are a few pics of little B's tot time this week.



Letter D puzzle and number ordering 1-10


Tot time notebook


Pointing out his letters 

Dog Pattern Blocks

Duck Lacing

Dinosaur stamping

Dinosaur Puzzle

 This has been a great week with letter D, I can't wait to see what next week has in store for us. 

                                             

                                     

These are a few items we used this week for tot time fun and learning. If you purchase any of these items from Amazon through my link my family receives a very small percentage to go towards new Montessori materials. A great BIG Thank You.  

Preschool letter W

It has been a few weeks since I shared our alphabet learning but I assure you we've been keeping busy. We've completed W and X and have moved onto Y, YAY!!! 

Here is a peek into our W week, starting out with learning about Whales.

V is for Volcano

This past week we have been having a lot of fun exploring Volcano's. In fact we learned a lot more this week than just the letter V. Let's just say Science was a top priority for these boys. 

Here Little B is putting together his own V book. 

I think he did a great job writing all of his V words. This Volcano learning pack was free from Me and Marie.

We read Volcano early reader books, and Magic school bus science books.

Then we set out to experiment. This is an activity pulled from one of my favorite places, Pinterest. 

Watch how Lava works.

They listened to Lava bubbling up. 

I love happy faces and fun times while learning. 

Click here to get the instructions to make your own lava experiment.

Next up, it wouldn't be a Natural beach living learning week with out actually making a volcano. I used Black rocks from the Dollar Store, a Volcano tray like this one from Amazon (I actually like the one from Amazon better than ours). I also surprised the boys with Primary Science Sets . I added in some baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring, we were set.

The Learning Resources Science Set was totally worth getting. I'm so excited to have them(I purchased 2) this year to go along with our homeschooling. 

I had happy boys this week.

Who would have thought starting off with the Letter of the week preschool would lead to all of this greatness?

If you are looking for other great Science activities for kids click here, ideas on Schooling the little's click here. If you are interested in Alphabet printables my favorite place to get them is 1+1+1=1.

I hope you have a great week of learning and come back for a visit soon.