Book Review : Purple JoJo

~Medha is 33.5 months old~

Medha's love for dogs made me buying "Purple JoJo" book by Tulika which is about a white dog. I am not wrong in choosing this book, this became one of her favorite book now. She keeps talking about this book everyday at least once. 

Title : Purple JoJo

Author :  Sameera Zia Qureshi

Publisher : Tulika Publishers

Color Collage Making Activity

Again for the color recognition confidence activity, I got Medha to do Color Collage Making Activity. For this I thought of starting with 3 basic colors Blue, Green, Yellow.

Materials:

• Chart papers of colors I wanted to teach/practice. I didn't find exact green color chart hence I went ahead with the shade of green and explained Medha that it's LIGHT GREEN color.
• Various pictures in the colors I picked above. This I googled for few pictures with color mentioned. ex: 'green color pictures for kids', 'yellow color pictures for kids' etc.

Book Actvities Brown bear Brown bear what do u see?

To increase the confidence in identifying the colors, I wanted to get Medha to match colors with the color of each animal in Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see? book. But the question is which one to give for matching. First I looked for crayons she had right now, but I didn't find some colors which are in the book. And then I checked her pom-poms, even in that I didn't find few colors.

Later I decided to print/buy some color papers and thought of asking her to match. But suddenly I remembered that I have an unopened play dough  box I bought for Medha. Luckily it has every color I need for matching with those of book.

Book Review : Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see?

This week we focused more on Colors and confidence activity for already known colors. So I picked 'Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See?' - a picture book by Bill Martin Jr. Pictures by Eric Carle.

Title : Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See?

Author : Eric Carle 

Publisher : Penguin

On-U-Mind

While browsing for some unique yet fun and learning included toys for Medha , I came across this toy in online. Though the concept is not totally new I thought this would be interesting for Medha to play with as this is with the balls and colorful balls. :) I bought this for INR 350/-

This has following features: 

• Montessori Toy
• Trains the child's graphical cognitive, hands on ability and patience.
• Nurturing the child's imagination, space preceivation ability and logical thinking.

Flower Painting

Toddlers love to paint. They love everything-color! Medha also no exception. She loved this activity! The best part is, you really don't need anything else except for a few flowers and the kiddie paints.

Items you need for this:

• Kid friendly washable paints 
• Drawing sheets, ( I have used note book pages as I am running out of Drawing Sheets)
• Flowers ( Any flowers, I plucked flowers from the plants in my balcony garden).

Animals Peel and Stick Foam Stickers

I have bought some Foam Animals Peel And Stick stickers for Medha. The vendor suggested me to use these to create your own jungle or your own Garden or Pet Store on a paper by sticking these.

And I have bought this full bunch for INR 120/- and it has more than 150 stickers in the packet. I mainly took this because Medha is so interested in Stickers, I thought of adding some learning to these stickers in the form of teaching her animals and colors and where these animals stay. (Farm Animals, Jungle Animals, Creepers like Snakes, Caterpillars etc.)

Indoor Activities with Toddler / Kids

Its always one of the most important things on my mind to find something to keep Medha busy instead of crying to play with the same toy or competing to sit with me or troubling me while working. As long as I can keep her busy for few minutes/hour, life is a bit easy and not to mention that I can breath for few minutes peacefully and can attend my office calls . Usually she is very cooperative but she is child so its always a hectic day for me.