Tuesday Toddler Tips: Snow

For anyone that may be new to Tuesday Toddler Tips, they are ideas for you to use with your children so they can learn through play with you. Most ideas will work for ages 2-6 but use your judgement on if your child is ready. It is my hope to develop these into small themes that you could pick activities out of each week (kinda like preschool only on a much smaller level).

Today I have a few Snow tips complete with pictures. :)
1. Place cotton balls (snow balls) into a bowl and have your child transfer them to another bowl using a pair of tweezers. This will work their pincher grasp, an important pre-writing skill. Let them explore the cotton balls and tweezers. There is no right or wrong way to do this.

2. Write their beginning letter (such as T for Toby) on a piece of Construction paper. Place a small dish of glue on the table (I use the lids to their tupperware containers). Let them dip the cotton balls in the glue and place them on the line your wrote. Talk about how their name starts with the letter and maybe mention some other things that start with their letter. Great for letter recognition and pre-reading skill.

3. Place snow into a large container (I used their bathtub) and let them explore it in their own way. I used to do this for my preschoolers because we weren't allowed to take them out in the snow. Amy's post a coouple days ago reminded me...so thanks Amy. Live where you don't get snow...use ice cubes, water, or sand.

To tie it all together, go to the library and pick out some books about snow to read. There are tons of them. Hope you enjoyed this weeks addition of Tuesday Toddler Tips. As always if you'd like ideas about a particular area just ask.