Toddler Learning Boxes/Busy Boxes!(Preschool Prep)
Summary
TLDRThe video showcases a creative solution for organizing toddler activities using daily learning boxes. Each box contains fun, educational tasks that teach motor skills, shapes, colors, numbers, and language. The presenter explains how the boxes simplify daily routines, making it easier for stay-at-home moms, daycare providers, or homeschoolers to engage toddlers aged 1-4 years. Activities include matching games, Play-Doh shapes, fine motor tasks with Cheerios, and color-matching exercises. The video offers tips on sourcing materials from local stores and crafting simple, effective tools to enhance a child's learning experience.
Takeaways
- 📦 The video introduces 'toddler learning boxes' designed with daily activities for teaching motor skills, shapes, colors, numbers, and language to toddlers.
- 🧩 Each box contains activities aimed at children aged 1-4, making it suitable for stay-at-home moms, daycare providers, or homeschoolers.
- 🎯 The idea behind the boxes is to have organized activities for each day, making it easier and faster to access them rather than using a single large bin.
- 🦁 One example of an activity is using Safari Ltd tubes (like transportation vehicles) and matching cards to help toddlers learn language skills by matching toys to pictures.
- 🔵 Play-Doh molds are used for teaching shapes, with triangle, circle, and square being the primary shapes taught.
- 🍴 Fine motor skill activities include using Cheerios to place inside pill containers, promoting hand-eye coordination and one-to-one correspondence.
- 🎨 Visual discrimination activities include matching fabric patterns backed with adhesive foam, which can be easily made using materials from craft stores.
- 🥚 Another activity involves matching plastic eggs to numbers written inside an egg container, aimed at teaching toddlers number recognition (1-6).
- 🎨 Color matching is done using popsicle sticks and felt or foam sleeves, teaching toddlers about colors and enhancing fine motor skills.
- 🖍️ Each box also includes items based on the child’s interests, such as a toy cell phone, spinning top, magic clip doll, and other fine motor tools like a notepad for scribbling.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of the toddler learning boxes discussed in the video?
-The purpose of the toddler learning boxes is to provide organized daily activities that help teach toddlers fine motor skills, shapes, colors, numbers, and language.
How are the toddler learning boxes organized?
-Each box is designated for one day of the week and contains activities focused on developing various skills such as motor skills, language, shapes, and colors.
What was the initial method the creator used for organizing activities, and why was it changed?
-Initially, all activities were kept in a large plastic bin, which made it time-consuming to find specific activities. The boxes were introduced to make the process more efficient and organized.
What age group are these toddler learning boxes suitable for?
-The activities are designed for toddlers aged between 1 to 4 years old.
What type of language activity is included in the boxes?
-One language activity involves using small figurines from Safari Ltd tubes and matching them with picture cards created by the parent to help children associate objects with their names.
How do the Play-Doh molds help toddlers learn shapes?
-The Play-Doh molds represent the primary shapes (triangle, circle, square) and help toddlers create and recognize these shapes while strengthening their hands through play.
What is one fine motor skills activity mentioned in the video?
-One fine motor activity involves using Cheerios and a small pill container, where the toddler places the Cheerios inside the container to practice hand-eye coordination and fine motor control.
How does the creator incorporate visual discrimination activities into the boxes?
-The visual discrimination activity involves matching different fabric patterns, where the child has to match similar patterns and colors, improving their ability to distinguish subtle differences.
What materials are used for color matching activities in the boxes?
-For color matching, popsicle sticks are used along with felt and foam sleeves. The child matches the popsicle stick to its corresponding colored sleeve, which helps with both color recognition and fine motor skills.
Where can parents find materials to create these activities for their toddler learning boxes?
-Most materials can be found at local dollar stores, craft stores like Michaels, or even around the home. Some items, like Safari Ltd tubes, can also be purchased at discount prices using coupons.
Outlines
🧒 Organizing Toddler Learning Activities with Themed Boxes
In this paragraph, the speaker introduces their system for organizing daily learning activities for toddlers. Each box represents a day of the week, containing activities that focus on motor skills, colors, shapes, numbers, and language. This approach saves time compared to their previous method of using a large bin, making it easier to prepare activities. It is especially useful for stay-at-home parents, daycare providers, and homeschoolers. The system is designed for toddlers aged 1 to 4 years, and the speaker explains that they will demonstrate how to create such boxes, using mostly household items or items from local dollar or craft stores.
🦁 Using Safari Ltd Figurines for Language Development
This section highlights a language development activity using Safari Ltd figurines, such as transportation vehicles, paired with matching cards created by the speaker using Google images. The goal is to help toddlers match the figurines with the correct pictures, reinforcing vocabulary through object recognition. The speaker emphasizes that each box contains a similar activity to promote language learning. These figurines can be found in local stores or purchased with coupons, making them affordable options for parents.
🟢 Teaching Shapes with Play-Doh Molds
In this paragraph, the speaker explains how Play-Doh molds representing basic shapes (triangle, circle, square) are used to teach toddlers about shapes. The use of Play-Doh helps strengthen children's hands while they mold the shapes, making it a beneficial activity for both motor skills and shape recognition. Play-Doh is recommended for its versatility and ease of use for toddlers.
🍒 Fine Motor Skills with Cheerios and Pill Containers
The speaker describes a fine motor skills activity using Cheerios and a pill container. Toddlers practice placing Cheerios into small compartments, which improves hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. The activity is designed to avoid choking hazards by using safe, large objects like Cheerios and pom-poms.
🔲 Visual Discrimination with Matching Fabric Cards
This paragraph introduces a visual discrimination activity using cards made from different types of fabric backed with adhesive foam for durability. Toddlers match the fabric patterns and colors to enhance their ability to distinguish between visual elements. The speaker mentions that the fabric can be easily sourced from a craft store, and the foam backing makes the cards easier for small hands to handle.
🥚 Number Matching with Plastic Eggs and Popsicle Sticks
The speaker discusses a number matching activity using plastic eggs, an egg container, and numbers written inside the eggs. Toddlers match numbers from 1 to 6, and as they become more advanced, the activity can be adjusted to focus on quantity. Additionally, the speaker describes a color matching activity using popsicle sticks and felt sleeves, which further develops fine motor skills and color recognition.
📱 Toddler-Interest Items for Fine Motor Skills
This section focuses on incorporating items that are of particular interest to the speaker's toddler, such as a toy cell phone, spinning top, magic clip doll, and a notepad for scribbling. These items serve to keep the toddler engaged while also developing fine motor skills through play. The speaker mentions using a roller set to enhance hand coordination by having the toddler take it apart and put it back together.
📦 Creating Toddler Learning Boxes with Varied Activities
In the final paragraph, the speaker summarizes their approach to creating learning boxes for toddlers, which include activities for language, shapes, fine motor skills, colors, numbers, and personal interests. They encourage viewers to find similar activities on platforms like Pinterest and Google, tailoring them to the child's developmental stage. Additionally, the speaker promotes their blog, where they share more toddler activities with pictures, providing further resources for parents and caregivers.
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Keywords
💡Toddler learning boxes
💡Fine motor skills
💡Shapes
💡Language development
💡Visual discrimination
💡One-to-one correspondence
💡Dollar store
💡Play-Doh
💡Homeschooling
💡Interest-based learning
Highlights
The presenter introduces toddler learning boxes with activities for each day of the week, aimed at teaching motor skills, shapes, colors, numbers, and language.
Each box is set up with specific activities, saving time for parents or educators by providing a structured approach to toddler learning.
The boxes are designed for children aged 1.5 to 4 years, making them versatile for various developmental stages.
The activities within the boxes are mostly made from everyday household items or inexpensive materials from the dollar store or craft store.
The presenter highlights a language activity using Safari Ltd figurines and matching cards to teach vocabulary and recognition.
Shapes are taught using Play-Doh and molds for primary shapes, helping children develop hand strength and fine motor skills.
A fine motor skills activity is shown where toddlers place Cheerios into small containers, enhancing hand-eye coordination.
The presenter emphasizes safety by choosing materials that do not pose choking hazards, such as large pom-poms and Cheerios.
Another activity involves visual discrimination with fabric swatches that toddlers match based on patterns and colors.
Number recognition is practiced with plastic eggs and a numbered egg carton, allowing toddlers to match numbers inside the eggs.
Color matching is taught through popsicle sticks and felt sleeves, which help toddlers learn colors while also improving fine motor skills.
The boxes contain personalized items based on the child's interests, such as a toy cell phone, spinning top, and magic clip doll.
The presenter encourages pre-writing activities by including items like notepads and crayons for scribbling, aiding in pencil control development.
The learning boxes are easy to create using simple materials, with additional activity ideas available on Pinterest, Google, and the presenter’s blog.
The video aims to inspire parents, daycare providers, and homeschoolers to create their own learning boxes for toddlers, providing structure to daily learning activities.
Transcripts
hello everyone today I want to show you
my toddler learning
boxes and here I have one box for each
day of the week that has activities for
my
toddler so each of the Box holds
activities to teach fun motor skills to
teach about shapes colors and numbers
and
language and before I had these boxes
set up all of my activities were inside
of this big jumbo plastic bin and I
would go there and take such a long time
every morning or every day um taking out
the activities that I wanted my toddler
to do now I basically just grab one of
these boxes and I have activities um for
each day of the week um so this is great
for stay-at-home moms for daycare
providers or for
homeschoolers looking to have activities
for toddlers so this um boxes can be be
uh for children from 1 and A2 to 4 years
old and so I'm going to go ahead and
show you guys um how to create your own
todler learning boxes and I've opened
one of them to show you what I have
inside so I got these um shoe boxes
these plastic shoe boxes at the dollar
store and most of the things that I have
inside are things that you you can find
around your home or you can find at your
local Dollar Store or local craft
store so let me go ahead and show you
guys here so here's an activity um this
is a language activity with the Safari
Ltd um tubes um this is the
transportation Vehicles little
toys and um here I got these cards that
I got that I found online and I created
these little cards out of it um I found
the pictures on Google and then I just
created these little cards so that the
child could do matching this is a good
language activity so the child
finds um the little toy the little
um um figurine and matches so motorcycle
motorcycle and so on so for each of the
boxes I do have a matching activity like
this which helps to develop language and
I use the Safari Ltd tubes um you can
also get any type of little figurines
that you can find in um the dollar store
and Michaels Michaels actually sells um
these uh safari Ltd tubes and you can
get them for really cheap for like 40%
sometimes if you can get their coupons
online and so for each of the boxes I do
have one of these it can be either
animals Transportation
vehicles um there's so many of them
check them out okay so that's that's
that then um for learning shapes I have
these three Play-Doh
molds um representing the three primary
shapes triangle Circle uh square and
then I have Play-Doh and and Play-Doh is
great for those little hands to
strengthen the hands and so then the
child would create these shapes uh using
the
Play-Doh here I have another um activity
this is fine motor skills activity this
is Cheerios and so this is going to be
put the Cheerios inside of these little
pill container and you can get a little
pill container like this at the dollar
store um and this is good for Ono one
correspondence hand eye coordination
fine motores as they grab the little
Cheerios um I do have all the activities
that I have I try to have the activities
that they're not a choking hazard so you
know for activities I either have pom
poms uh Cheerios or something that is
really large and not a choking
hazard here I have um these little cards
that I created this is for visual
discrimination and so I created these
little cards and I got these little
pieces of fabric at
Michaels and I backed it up with some
adhesive
foam and so the child would do some
matching with these so I would lay them
out
lay out the different kinds and there's
so many different kinds that I've made
and lay them out and then I have the
child do some matching with these so
they would find the correct they would
match the correct patterns and colors
some of them are actually very similar
and so um again you can get the fabric
at your local craft store and then back
it up with some adhesive
foam and and it is uh very makes it a
lot more durable although you don't
really need the foam in the back it just
makes it easier to handle for the little
hands um so this is good for visual
discrimination let's see what else I
have here here I have some plastic eggs
and um you guys can get these at the
dollar
store and I have an old egg container
and um I've written some numbers right
inside and then the child would do the
matching with the numbers like
four three and so on numbers 1 through
six um
matching and again guys so you would
make this age appropriate for your child
so if your child already knows numbers 1
through six you want to move on to
quantity and make things a little bit
more difficult here is color matching
and I got these popsicle sticks I did
take some of felt and foam pieces and I
uh sold the sides and then the child
would match the sleeves with the
popsicle stick so I take out the take
them out of the sleeves and the child
would Place uh the popsicle sticks
inside of the sleeves um this is good
find motor skills and it's also good to
learn their
colors um so the rest of the things
inside the box here I have like some
interest Le things like she really loves
cell phones right now she really into it
so I got I put a little flip phone in
here uh I got a spinning top for fine
motor just spinning top got at the
dollar store I got a little magic clip
doll that um she loves playing with I
also have a little notpad um that she
scribbles on with crayons or with a a
marker and some stickers um I want to
get her writing um using those hands
those fine motor skills um so that she
can get ready for writing and um develop
good pencil
control here I have some rollers and um
basically I take these apart and then I
and have uh her put them together and
then put them in the little bag and
that's good for finding motor skills as
well so I have shown you what I have
inside of one box um to give you guys an
idea I don't want to make the video like
super long so I only showed you what's
inside of one box but I have tons of
activities here and you can find
activities on Pinterest and Google all
you have to do is type in toddler
activities
or um busy bags or type in any
activities that you're looking for like
I said um most of my boxes just have
language shapes fine motor skills colors
numbers and some type of Interest Le um
thing inside of it something that my
child is interested in um so I also have
a section of my blog dedicated for
activities and I have pictures of tons
of activities that I have done for my
toddlers And you can check that out I'll
put a link on the description box uh
where you can find my blog well guys I
hope you have gotten good ideas here in
this video I hope the video is
resourceful and until the next video
thanks for watching
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