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Baby Activities

Our baby activities are geared towards children ages 0-12 months. These activities will mainly focus on development of the senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, and hearing), early literacy skills, and gross motor skills.

Keep these two important points in mind when engaging in play with your baby:

  1. Slow down! It is hard to watch a baby or toddler who is not understanding what we want them to do, but it’s important to give your child time to try on their own. Doing things for them is not benefiting anyone. Modeling (showing what you want your child to do using your own body) is a great tool to aid in understanding.
  2. Read the Signals– Babies are easily overstimulated. If your baby gets fussy while you are playing, take a break and come back to this activity once they are rested.

Check out some of our recent baby activities:

May 4, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 2 Comments

Tape Pull Painting for Babies and Toddlers

Tape Pull Painting

Grandparents of the world are you tired of homemade gifts yet?  Well, sorry, here comes another tape pull painting craft fun for babies and toddlers alike! Mother’s Day is approaching quickly, and since the girls have been born we also acknowledge their MiMi and Nana on this day as well.[Read more]

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April 13, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 4 Comments

Flower Activity Round Up for the Spring time!

Flower activity spring time round up

Spring is here? Nope, not a typo. That was most certainly a question. With spring comes all the warm fun, for us, that’s flower activity based learning! Those of us here on the northeast know that mother nature has been seriously confused lately. This past weekend we got a pretty serious[Read more]

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April 2, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 10 Comments

Activities for your 9-12 Month Old

10 activities for 9-12 month olds

Remember that time I posted a list of activities for your 0-3 month old? My tiny little peanut was the inspiration for that post. I can hardly believe that little baby is now 9 months old and is a crawling, climbing, mischief making machine. Babies in the 9-12 month range are really getting[Read more]

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March 19, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 4 Comments

Spring Play Dough Recipe for toddlers and children

spring time play dough recipe

There are things that my younger childless self would just never believe real people did.  For example, spend a Friday night cleaning car seats before promptly passing out at 10 PM, or scraping tiny little play dough crumbs out of the crevices of a coffee table with a tooth pick.[Read more]

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March 14, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 9 Comments

Saint Patrick’s Day Activity Round up

Saint Patrick's Day Activity

Since we had kids, my husband and I have traded in our green beers and goofy Saint Patty’s day apparel for child Saint Patrick’s day activity, rock crafts, leprechauns, and super cheesy Saint Patrick’s Day baby apparel. This has been the ultimate sacrifice for my husband who is in fact a Saint Patricks[Read more]

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February 27, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 17 Comments

Cat in the Hat Puzzles, 18 months +

Cat in the Hat Puzzles, 18 months+

Dr. Seuss day is upon us, and it’s a day you should most definitely be celebrating with your little ones and what better way to celebrate than some Cat in the Hat Puzzles!  Who doesn’t like an excuse to eat tons of Swedish fish in the name of One Fish[Read more]

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February 13, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 11 Comments

Five Ways to Learn with Candy Hearts

learn with candy hearts

You know its a tough day when you start dreaming of bed time before noon.  That’s the kind of day we were having. We’ve had two weeks of sickness (no one warned me that having two kids ensured that when one gets sick, the other will immediately follow) which means[Read more]

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February 4, 2016August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 1 Comment

Valentines Day Activities, Love is in the Air

Let me begin this post by saying – Yes I know, we dropped off the face of the earth.  The last month has been a blur of birthdays, holidays, blizzards, and the unavoidable winter sicknesses. The good news is we’re back- and just in time to give you some oh so[Read more]

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December 18, 2015August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi 1 Comment

Christmas Crafting for 6 – 24 months

I don’t know how I accumulated so many boxes of Christmas decorations. I feel like every year I find something adorable I just can’t resist, but absolutely do not need…so obviously I buy it.  I decided this was the year to put a stop to the endless purchasing of decorations, mainly because[Read more]

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December 14, 2015August 4, 2016 - Jenny Moradi Leave a comment

Christmas Tree Painting, 3 months+ AND 18 months+

Christmas Tree Painting, toddlers 18 months+

It was 70 degrees today. I was sweating in long sleeves. We opened the windows in our house. Christmas is 12 days away, somethings not right here. Despite the fact that we are living in a tropical paradise compared to Decembers of the last few years, Christmas is just around[Read more]

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