STEM is an essential learning category for children and that includes 4-year-olds. Toys and activities you can find on this page are excellent for teaching 4-year-olds science, technology, engineering, and math. These hands-on top 10 STEM Toys will delight and educate little learners. Brain Builder Games Brain Builders from MindWare lets kids plan and create…
Top 10 STEM Toys For 1 Year Olds
How can a 1 year-old begin learning STEM skills? Building with blocks, identifying shapes and numbers, or moving beads along a track all introduce science, technology, engineering and math concepts. These are our top 10 STEM toys for 1 year-olds! #1 – Rainbow Rocket Wooden Stacking Play Set Rainbow Rocket Stacking Play Set is made…
Math Busy Bag: Counting Eggs
An Easter busy bag is much more than a way to occupy your young child. It can help your kiddo to build early learning skills. Like what? Keep reading to find out how to create an imaginative egg activity and what it can do for your developing child! Easter Egg Fun for Any Season Whether it’s…
Valentine’s Day Busy Bag – Sorting Hearts
Creating a Valentine’s Day busy bag is an easy way to keep your young child – well, busy. Obviously, that’s in the name! Along with occupying your toddler or preschooler, sorting hearts activity builds fine motor skills, inspires creativity, teaches about shapes and colors and much, much more. Sorting Hearts Busy Bag Materials Here’s what…
Velcro Fine Motor Color Sort and Patterning Activity
We love the texture, sound and the look of velcro. It can be a versatile resource for fine motor play. Your little one will need to use their pincer grasp in order to place items onto the velcro and pull them off. For the letter V in our A to Z Fine Motor Play series, we…
LEGO Color Graphing Sensory Play
Combining sensory play and math activity we came up with this super simple Lego color graphing sensory play idea. You can download printable chart we used in this activity and let your toddlers try this easy math activity. Don’t know about your kids, but my are crazy about LEGO®! Lately, it’s been all about LEGO®…
Counting Kites Fine Motor Play
After a windy day out at the beach watching kites flying overhead I knew we would have to create a Kite Fine Motor Play activities as part of our A-Z Fine Motor series. I cut eight kites from one piece of coloured card and added a number to each kite using a permanent marker pen….
Wheels Busy Bag
Although I have girls, they often play with cars, trucks, trains and other toy vehicles. And it’s totally fine! How about your kids? For today I prepared few patterning strips to use inside wheels busy bag for sizing and practicing patterns as a simple math activity. WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR WHEELS BUSY BAG? Lego…
Counting Roses Activity for Valentine’s Day
For today’s activity, we used some of the supplies from recycle bin and some stuff we had at home to create simple counting activity for toddler. Counting roses activity helps with learning numbers 1-5 and doubles as fine motor skill practice. Counting roses activity has been done in our house before Valentine’s day but you…
Wheels on the Bus Learning Activities
Nursery rhyme The Wheels on The Bus is one of my daughter’s favorite rhymes. She sings it all the time and even makes up her own rhymes to that melody! There are many nursery rhymes available, online, on CDs, DVDs and books. Common to the most of the nursery rhymes: babies, toddlers, preschoolers and children of…