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easy IDEAS to entertain a one-year-old

Posted August 11, 2008 at 10:01AM in Activities, Arts & Crafts by dustbunny | Back 

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Here are a few fresh ideas to keep your one year old busy! Total Montessori-style entertainment. Look around the house for these readily available activities.
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-Putting toothpicks (supervised!) into the top of a spice jar / pens into empty bottles with narrow necks
-Putting large poker chips into empty wipes containers/box with a slit in the top
-Shape sorting
-Taking old credit cards/library cards out of a wallet
-Washing hands in a basin
-Brushing hair
-Putting on sunglasses
-Listening to animal sounds and identifying them on picture cards
-Building block towers
-Playing with nested items (blocks, bowls)
-Mopping (or really just swishing the mop around in a bucket of water)
-Talking on a disconnected telephone
-Taking a variety of small balls (ping pong, tennis, rubber, wooden) out of a muffin tin and putting them back
-"Playing" basketball
-Moving objects around with a plastic golf club
-Typing and writing (with crayons, magnetic doodler)
-Feeding the pets
-Helping with the dishes
-Stirring anything
-Using a spoon and fork to eat
-Walking up and down hills/over rough surfaces and climbing
-Reading familiar books
-Walking wagon (above)

ideas thanks to montessoriblog.com

 

Tags: infant activities

 

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  benbaby responded August 11, 2008 at 12:57AM

  Goofing around with my babies - Big and Lil

Kids these days love to play with utensils,empty cartons, spoons which are easily available at home. Is that a blessing?

 

 

 

 

 

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