Sensory time! This is one of the easiest activities because you can put ANYTHING in the water and kids will enjoy it! It is also easy to turn it into some academic learning through counting, sorting, and matching all while “rescuing” the teddy bears! We can’t wait until it warms up and we can bring the water play outside!

We make a lot of kabobs at our house, between vegetables and fruit and my kids love  putting them together. For a fun “make believe” activity today, I let my boys create kabobs out of playdough! They rolled a bunch of different balls (great fine motor) and then they added them to the skewers to represent fruit or vegetables! It was fun to see what kind of “things” they wanted to put on their kabob. In the second photo, they put them on their pretend grill to cook! 

My kids love using the hole punch or any punchers I have. They can sit and just punch a random piece of paper for a long time so I decided to try a heart shape  and incorporate the pattern to punch.  Even though they themselves are not making or even saying the pattern, they are visually seeing a pattern so it counts! And…it is AMAZING for fine motor work (small hand movements by getting the paper between the punches all while squeezing the puncher and holding the paper). 

I used dot stickers to make the outside color pattern but you could use markers too (you could also have your child color the pattern themselves for an added step). If you don’t have punchers you could have them put stickers over the pattern to match colors or poke the pattern with qtip and paint.