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Welcome to  TUESDAY TOTS for this week

This Week:

Learn with Play at home is featuring

Play Activities for Toddlers

From last weeks linky where we featured
6 simple ways for Kids to Get Arty

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This week on Tuesday Tots I found a whole lot of activities that are just perfect for playing and learning with Toddlers.
I've chosen 6 different yet simple, fun ideas that you could play today.
There were other great ideas linked up too and you can see all of them here.

1) Colour Scavenger Hunt. Explore your environment and learn and hunt for colours by Moms Have Questions Too

2) Ice Painting. A great sensory experience and a chance to get creative by Inspiration Laboratories

3) Cutting Playdough. A great way to practice cutting and fine motor skills for toddlers by Teaching Mama

4) Summer Sensory Tray. I loved this fun and inviting small world play by Nicola on Tuesday

5) Bean Bag Fun. Here you'll find both a tutorial on how to make your own bean bags as well as a fun gross motor skills game by Craftulate

5) Mini Discovery Bottles. I loved how the toddlers can help make their own sensory discovery bottles and practice fine motor skills at the same time by Organic Inspirations.

Congratulations if you were featured and thanks for linking up!  

If you're featured you're welcome to grab a featured button.

Here are some fun Toddler Play and Learn Activities from us.

Click the Picture to go to the activity.

   

  

       

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Now it's your turn to link up your posts for children aged 5 & under. 

Remember to check back on all the great ideas that are linked up each week starting on a Tuesday.

Maybe next week you will be featured.

(please read the guidelines before linking up)

Happy playing,

Debs :)

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I want to invite all of you, my playful readers, to play along with a new movement we're calling, #playmatters.

The fun was started by a bunch of us playful Aussie kid bloggers (full list at the bottom) and has already been joined by other inspirational playful bloggers around the world.

So, what is it about and how does it involve you?

Painting with water on the aquadoodle  #playmatters

#playmatters ...?

Really, it speaks for itself. If you read this blog then I don't need to tell you that play matters, because you read about it here and, more than that, you see it in your own homes and classrooms. We know that play matters.

Together, we want to SHOW that play matters

Sometimes nothing beats good old cutting and pasting #playmatters

We believe that play is an important right of a child. 

• It is their fun
• their enjoyment, 
• their learning about themselves and the world, 
• their work, 
• their challenges, 
• their problem solving, 
• their entertainment, 
• their interaction, 
• their discussion and so much more

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Off on a new adventure #playmatters

We aim to demonstrate:

• how important play is
• how valued play is
• how easy it is
• how much can be learnt
• how many different ways there are to play
• how worthwhile it is
• and how much FUN it is

Swinging with a friend #playmatters

Join us!

It's just so easy. 

When sharing a picture of something playful add the tag #playmatters. That's it!

Most of our action will be taking place on Instagram but the tag will also work on Twitter

If you don't have either of those accounts but would still like to share, you're welcome to post your pictures on our Facebook Page wall.


Don't forget to check out all the other #playmatters pics by doing a search under that tag on Instagram. It's fun to be inspired by play all around the world!


You can also see all the #playmatters pics under my Instagram tab on the Learn with Play at home Facebook Page

Together, let's show the world that #playmatters!

Why does my heart melt every time they are working together? #playmatters

For more fun inspirations, you can check out our playmatters pinterest board

Here are the Aussie Kid Bloggers that have kicked off this initiative with us.

Adventures at home with Mum

Aspiring Mum

At Home with Ali

Childhood101

Danya Banya

Easy Peasy Kids

Four Little Piglets

Just for Daisy

Ladybug’s Spots

Laughing Kids Learn

Learn with Play at Home

Learning to Play and Playing to Learn

Lessons Learnt Journal

My Little Bookcase

Octavia and Vicky

One Perfect Day

Picklebums

Playing and Learning Begins at Home

Triple T Mum

Wildlife Fun 4 Kids

Can't wait to see your pics!

Happy playing,

Debs :)

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Welcome back to the "Playful Maths" weekly series brought to you by

  Learn with Play at home and The Imagination Tree

Together, let's make MATHS FUN!

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Last week we brought you 2 great maths activities using paper tubes.

This week we bring you another 2 activities using Paper Tubes. 

Today's activity from us focuses on "Number Recognition and Ordering" 

This activity also includes aspects of counting, one-to-one correspondence, counting-on, sorting and fine motor skills.

Ages: 2+

(M has just turned 4. See the bottom for handy tips to Extend or Simplify to meet your child's needs)

Materials: Paper Tube cut into smaller pieces (we used 1 wrapping paper tube for this), Foam number stickers.
Optional: Counters, playdough & chopstick.

Sorting though numbers to find the right numbers.

Fine motor skills to peel off sticker backing

Sticking on the numbers. We focused on teen numbers. 

Counting on to figure out which number needs to be made next.

Ordering to ensure all the required numbers are made.

Once they are all made. It's up to you how you use this fun manipulative.

Just making them includes tons of maths learning and practice which children need in order to consolidate their understanding of numbers.

Here are some ways you could use your Paper Tube Numbers

Mix them all up and find the numbers one by one and put them in order from smallest to largest.

We had great fun building with them. Adding extra elements of balance and coordination

Add counters, choose one of your Paper Tube Numbers and count out the corresponding amount of counters.

Children could fill the inside of each Paper Tube Number with the corresponding amount of counters/pompoms etc by counting them out..

Ordering vertically was lots of fun. 

Stick a chopstick (or any stick etc) into playdough and thread away.

Choose any number and have the child count-on from that number and thread on the next numbers.

You can have children count and thread numbers backwards or forwards depending on which way they're ordering.

When you're done with your Paper Tube Numbers, thread them onto a piece of string, tie the ends and they're ready for you to get out next time.

Handy Tips:

- Simplify this activity by starting with numbers 1-3. Include higher numbers up to 10 as they are able.

(We focussed on teen numbers as that's where my child needs more work. We made a whole set though)

- You can Extend this activity in many ways:

• Make higher numbers as required
• Use single numbers on each tube and then place tubes together to create new numbers
• Use the number tubes to practice addition, subtraction etc
• Have children paint or write the numbers on the tubes themselves

- Mix it up by sticking the numbers on the tubes with them horizontally instead. They can then be threaded on rope or a broom handle, etc, horizontally. (Much harder to build with! haha)

- To learn new skills and to consolidate their understanding, children need to experience opportunities to practice these same skills over and over again. You will find many of our Maths activities practice the same skills using slightly different materials. This is about making it fun and keeping it interesting for kids. Then, they'll want to learn!

- Here are our 2 Paper Tube Activities from last week from both Learn with Play at home and The Imagination Tree
(click on the pictures to go to the posts)

   

- Playful Maths. Below are the Egg Carton Activities from both Learn with Play at home and The Imagination Tree
(click on the pictures to go to the posts)

           



Don't forget to join us next week for the latest Playful Maths activities.... with Plastic Bottles!

Are there any Everyday Materials that you'd like to see us use? 

Mention it in the comments and we'll see what we can come up with!

Happy playing,

Debs :)

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