Tuesday, June 19, 2012

'Homeschool' for babydoll

Here are some mini activities the girl has been entertained with. Mainly to exercise her eye-hand coordination & fine motor skills.


Transferring clips into an empty milk bottle. The mouth of the bottle is rather small which is makes it tricky. So babydoll had to tilt each clip upright in order to slot them in. She surprised me with this one, she did it with much ease.


I slit a tiny 'coin' slot on an empty carton box and gave the girl some toy coins to insert them into the box. Again, i thought this might be a little challenging for her age but i was proven wrong again. It was too easy for her that she got a little bored with this activity very soon after.


She was more delighted to find the coins in the box and would much rather i let her play with the box opened!


I was busy playing Monopoly with the boy & didn't pay much attention to her. I left her with a box of sweets and when i checked on her, she somehow managed to find another box & decided to transfer the sweets from box to box! This kept her entertained for quite a bit! It once again tells me that sometimes we really don't need to prepare loads & loads of activities for the toddler- they are curious enough to create their own, meaningful ones too!


AH! The milk bottle again! This time it made it's appearance with colorful poms poms!


Little sister hard at work, transferring each pom pom into the milk bottle.


I LOVE the Ikea stacking cups! I bought it for sonshine and took them out again for the girl. It is such a cheap & simple toy; even the boy is intrigued by it- still! (Ok, this has nothing to do with the sheep...it is there for visual pleasure).


I stacked the cups up and let babydoll push them down. She also helped me stacked the cups- great for her eye-hand coordination & fine motor skills!

All in all, i am delightfully surprise by her (fine & gross) motor skills. She is definitely way, way much, much, faster than her brother was. I remember i was pretty frustrated watching him do fine motor skills related activities- thank God that's all over!

3 comments:

  1. Sooooo happy to see baby doll in action!!! Soooo pretty!!!! and smart girl!!!

    Hugs!!

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  2. I have those same stacking cups and oh the pom-poms too! They are really handy and fun for little hands. :)

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  3. Aww... finally I see a photo of Babydoll. She is gorgeous! Your comment 'this has nothing to do with the sheep' is so funny.Heehee.

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