I was super excited about Jenae's idea to make this counting caterpillar, so when Isaac said he was headed out to get pool supplies for the youth group, I requested he bring home a foam noodle for me. If you don't feel like clicking over to her site, she cut 11 small pieces off of the noodle, made one a caterpillar face, and numbered the rest 1-10. String some rope through the middle, and you have lacing beads (great for motor development) and a counting game (put the pieces on the rope in order) all in one.
While Levi loves numbers -- we're still using them to count out his bites at meal times, going all the way up to 9 multiple times now -- he really doesn't know them in order at all, so I thought this would be a fun way to practice. Now, Jenae has a three-year-old and an 18-month-old, so this particular activity was designed for her older boy, but she also uses it just for the motor development with her younger son. I figured, Levi's done so many stacking toys, surely it won't be hard for him to get the pieces on the rope.
I was way wrong.
He would put the end of the rope into the "bead," flip it over, and then try to push the rope through the bead again -- ending up, of course, without any rope through the hole at all. I told him so many times to pull the rope through the hole that he started repeating the word and giggling every time I said it.
I guess we'll be using this for a bead-threading activity for a while before we start working on the numbers!
While Levi loves numbers -- we're still using them to count out his bites at meal times, going all the way up to 9 multiple times now -- he really doesn't know them in order at all, so I thought this would be a fun way to practice. Now, Jenae has a three-year-old and an 18-month-old, so this particular activity was designed for her older boy, but she also uses it just for the motor development with her younger son. I figured, Levi's done so many stacking toys, surely it won't be hard for him to get the pieces on the rope.
I was way wrong.
He would put the end of the rope into the "bead," flip it over, and then try to push the rope through the bead again -- ending up, of course, without any rope through the hole at all. I told him so many times to pull the rope through the hole that he started repeating the word and giggling every time I said it.
I guess we'll be using this for a bead-threading activity for a while before we start working on the numbers!
Like my red toenails? :)
P.S. If you didn't feel like clicking over to Jenae's site but you do have kids 3 and under, I highly recommend it. So many great ideas!
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