![]() And when Scarlett gets a little older I’m thinking to make more story stones for other books, and then all stones can be mixed up in a bag, and we can take rocks in a random order and create our own stories. Another way to play is to recreate a story without a book. We play by matching rocks to the pictures on each page of the book. I made story stones for Room on the Broom book. Story stones can be a great addition to your story time. Then we count how many circles that caterpillar already got. Here’s a free printable of this game. Then we take turns rolling dice, and depending on which color is on the dice, we take a circle of that color and put it on the caterpillar. Each person gets a board with a caterpillar of certain color. We love board games and here’s a simple game we play with our 25 month old Scarlett. I stick an animal there, she guesses, and I turn the box the other way for her to check. I made it by taking an old gift box, making cuts radiating from the center in the form of the sun rays in order to fit different size of animals. ![]() Scarlett was sticking animals into the box herself after a while. I wanted to try a version with our animal figures and it was a hit. This activity was inspired by the book Whose Tail on the Trail, where you have to guess an animal by its tail. We have a large collection of Schleich animal figures that we decided to invest in because of their beautiful quality – but since this map is not too big, only a few of them can fit on the same continent. I’ll probably get a bigger map like this for this activity since we both like it so much. This map is not big, so it easily fits on the table, but because of its size it’s easier to fit smaller animal figures on it. Then we take one of our animal figures and see if we can find it on the map so we can place it there. I got her a small world map that has illustrations of animals around the world. Alternatively, an older toddler could brush paint onto the potato stamper with a paintbrush before printing.Scarlett loves this activity because it involves matching and animals. Put some poster paint in saucers and let your child dip the potato in the paint and then make prints on paper. Remove the cookie cutter – and you have a perfectly shaped potato stamper!.Peel off the strip of potato you’ve just cut, leaving the middle bit (inside the cookie cutter) in place.Cut around the rest of the side of the potato half in the same way.Stop when you feel your knife touch the cookie cutter. Take your knife and make a cut into the side of the potato half roughly where the embedded end of the cookie cutter is.With a knife, cut a potato in half vertically, then press a cookie cutter right into one of the cut surfaces – so that you can only just see the top of the cookie cutter.This is one of those activities that toddlers love but many of us avoid because, frankly, who’s got time to carve a reverse 3-D shape into a potato? Well, we have a brilliant trick! All you need is cookie cutters (and a potato or two, obvs) and then. Prep time: 20 mins | Materials: Potatoes, cookie cutters, knife, paper, paint
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