DIY Sensory Rice Play Why Sensory Rice Play is Great for Toddlers      Sensory rice play may look simple, but it delivers big developmental benefits for little learners. When toddlers scoop, pour, and explore the rice with their hands, they are strengthening fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination—essential building blocks for …

Teaching colors at a young age is an excellent way to give them some vocabulary to describe the world that surrounds them. This opens the door to new and exciting opportunities to communicate verbally. Because early identification of colors creates the cognitive bond between visual cues and words.  The ability to identify colors is…

Letter recognition is a key step in a child's reading and writing skills. It is also the ability to name letters, to identify features specific to those letters, and to form letters from the 26 alphabets.  According to my research, alphabet/letter recognition has been shown to be one of the strongest and most reliable predictors…

Sorting and grouping of things is a significant cognitive skill. It teaches your little one to notice similarities and differences, to learn to categorize and develop literacy and numeracy skills from an early age. Sorting activities often attract children and many of them naturally sort based on the qualities and features they noti…

Learning handwriting takes time and practice for each child. Much of this involves taking control of the movements of the arms, hands and fingers required to form numbers and letters.  Line tracing is only one way to help children prepare to write. Tracing can help children develop fine motor skills, improve hand-eye coordination, d…

Doing Dot-to-Dot activities really helps to enhance writing skills and are valuable pre-writing teaching tool. It is fun to do and has a number of advantages. Kids can learn to follow the sequence of numbers or letters, create shapes, focus their pencil, and learn how much pressure to apply to paper. Working on a dot-to-dot teaches …