Preschooler Activity: Counting Blocks, Building Towers

Counting blocks on their corresponding numbers. Sounds kind of dull, huh? So...

How do you get a preschooler boy excited about learning?

Bring in the big machines.

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Learning Activity : ABC Mat Game

Using an ABC Mat and ABC Blocks a learning activity is formed!

Letting Henry lead the way, 

we put the ABC mat together in order of the ABC's and 123's. 

He used his hammer to pound in each of the letters to their corresponding blocks.

Once the mat was together, 

we gathered our Melissa and Doug ABC blocks and drew one block at a time.

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Activity Course with Balloons

Every child I know has a fascination with balloons.

At every birthday party, every kid wants to take one home.

They are usually the highlight of the party.

[unless you have one of these at your party.]

So this week I thought :

Why do the balloons only come out at birthday parties?

They bring lots of entertainment in just being balloons.

But there's so much more you can do with them!

[Check out the previous post : Balloon Badminton.]

I asked Henry what he wanted to do today.

As usual, his answer was to build a road with his mat.

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More : ABC Mat Fun!

Usually I try to post something educational on Fridays.

Well, I haven't been much of a teacher this week because we did nothing that was any type of 'formal' education.
I have been meaning to show you what other fun we've been having with our ABC Mat!Ever since we started making roads with our ABC Mat, we've started being more creative.
You may have seen on last week's Photo Project 365 post that we've built a house :

I've let Henry take control and make the 'road' himself : 

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ABC Mat Fun!

Do you have an ABC mat in your house?

We do.

Henry learned his ABC's with this mat.

Other than that, we haven't expanded upon what it could be used for.

Until I realized that Henry always put together small foam blocks to make a road at his Great-Grandma's.

Let's make a big road for his big trucks!

We also have a couple sets of the plain large foam squares.

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