Toddler Activities

Long before Thanksgiving of 2013 came around, I started working on toddler activities for the wee ones (James and Camille).  They are getting to the age where they can handle more structured activities.  I knew after the New Year, when I wanted to start said new activities, I'd be way too tired (3rd trimester) and overwhelmed (homeschool starting back up, plus baby prep) to have any brain power to do much of anything.  So, I planned ahead (sacre bleu!) and ordered the items I needed along with my Christmas gifts.  Will the miracles never cease?

Overall, I spent less than $50 on these activities, but this first one is my favorite type: FREE.

I started with this old calendar we had in our school room from 2013.  I loved the images and didn't want to get rid of them, but clearly, they were not useful as a calendar anymore!  So I chopped off the calendar part and voila! Matching cards for the babies.  Leif found matches from our stash of Schleich animals (and a few Safari Toob animals, as well as one random octopus I've had since childhood) and we were set.

New. Free. Activity.

The best part is Leif can use the set for homeschool (biology and geography) as well, but more on that later.

They're pretty good matches, too.  We only currently have 9/12 of the matches, but that is fine for now.  And I've yet to go through the large number of Safari Toobs we bought on clearance (yay!) right before Christmas.

As for our calendar, we were sad to see the old animal calendar go, but I thought it would be boring to do the same thing again this year.  So we downloaded a freebie from the internet, and I love it, too.  :)

Happy New Year!