R-man is 13 months old
He started attempting to 'NEST' the cups this week. I have started leaving them for him to use when he is good and ready and this week he showed some interest.
This was a fun activity that we will be working on weekly as he grows. It is great for fine motor skills, following directions, and is a little bit of hide and suprise. I cut holes in the cherrio box and asked him to put uncooked pasta in the holes. I think he got three pasta spirals in the box in total, but i think that is GREAT for his first attempt! He loved picking the box up and looking inside to see where they went! And for the first time ever when playing with pasta, he did NOT try to put it in his mouth!
This was merely a game of 'putting'. I talked about the different colors as I gave him a new ball to place in the muffin tin. His favorite part was taking them out (which turned into teaching him how to throw- not sure if that was my best idea ever). I left it all for a while with the balls scattered about and some still in the tin. Throughout the morning he'd pick up the balls and put them back in the proper slots- when we really start working on colors, i'm going to encourage him to keep the same colors in the same line- but that is a LONG way down the road.
When R-man first started eating solid foods, I made ALL of his BABYFOOD and i used this cute little containers to freeze it in. Now, I use them for transfer containers. We were focusing on green this week, so I gave him some green pom poms and a few containers. He was NOT intersted. About ten minutes later while I had gone to clean up a bit, I noticed that on his OWN, he had started participating in this activity without me showing him what to do! Of course, I ran to his side to applaud him, followed by repeating open and close as he liked that the cup had a lid to keep all the pom poms inside. On his own accord, he took the pom poms to the muffin tin and started placing them in the muffin holes, too!
Colors- color sticks in colored cups. This was simply to keep him happy while I fixed breakfast! and it worked! I gave him some colored popsicle sticks and placed them in the cups, then took them out, and he proceeded to do the same...although it ended up with banging on the cups instead....hey, as long as it's FUN, that's all i care about!
Fine motor skills practice with a truck book! It's windows slide open and close! This is one of his favorite books and his little fingers are getting so good at pushing the window open and closing it again.
The Kid LOVES elmo- i can tell him to go find elmo, and he will hunt hi and low until he has found the little red monster!
Everyday we have story time!
First attempt with crayons!
I got the triangular grip ones- and he liked it. he drew more with the end of the crayon than the tip, but he thought it was fun for all of a minute!
awesome week! you're doing a great job! i love the idea of using yellow sticks and yellow containers! We'll try that this week too!
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