DIY Cardboard Activity Box

Here comes an activity which got added recently to LO's favorites list. All you need for this is a package box, preferably in square shape and some markers. A super activity to teach toddlers alphabets, shape recognition and sorting.

Our activity is not complete without Alphabets, so obviously I started with writing uppercase alphas on one side. This is to go with the magnetic uppercase alphas we have. LO had immense fun in finding the alphas and matching over it.

The second face was a kinda shape sorting. We have a wooden block set which I thought to tie up with this activity box. So I etched out shapes on the box that will fit the wooden blocks in. LO loved this game of dropping the blocks in the right holes and picking them back from inside. You need to leave the box open on one side, of course to collect the blocks.

On the third face I traced out a structure with the wooden blocks, so that LO can build on it. He tried his level best to complete the castle!

The fourth face was again a shape sorting but for different set of shapes blocks.

This activity box is so simple to make and will hold the kids busy for quiet long time. This also enhances kids' hand-eye coordination. Customize the activity box that would fit to your kids interest and available toys.

This video was taken when LO was 19 months old.

Happy Parenting!😊

Alphabet Train Activity for Toddlers

Keeping my LO busy for hours without the gadgets was a big challenge for me when he was in his second year. Later I started to browse for activities and then ended up with these activities which I customized for LO with the available materials and according to his interests.

As everyone knows LO is deeply in love with alphabets! So let me first list out an alphabet activity which we did during last winter.

Supplies:

All you need is alphabets, a train track and a train of course!

LO's idea is to carry the alphabets one by one on the train and put them in order on the train track.

This activity held him at one place for long time. He loved carrying the alphabets on the train, moving it slowly to the track....

  

          

I loved the way he arranged the alphabets on the track, looks cool right!!

  

     

LO's day is not complete without an alphabet activity. We will keep you posted with more alphabet  activities. 

Happy Parenting!!!

Time to wake up...

The alarming inflation of cancer incidents is another conspicuous basis for this post. While many illness still remain as paradox, this mighty broad group of diseases kills billions of people world-wide every year.

Statistics shows appalling figures about the cancer related deaths that might occur in the current and future generation. While causes for few cancers are known straightforward, for many type of cancers the causes aren't still trapped. Doctors yield the causes to many factors, but I want to stress on our food habit and the life style.

We are becoming addicted to modern life style and fast foods, that we don't want to lay down them neither accept our fault. Many people are ready to argue with me regarding this point and they are not ready to understand the fact. 

We are so self-fish that we are not worried about ourself and also about our future generations. We are mutating the genes noiselessly and passing them to the next generation. The Pediatric cancer, to me is the worst type of cancer, is also attributed to genetics and heredity. 

Image courtesy: ICPCN

The genes are getting mutated fast in an undesirable way passing from one generation to another, may be in a dormant way. Every person has his own responsibility to protect his gene copy from getting altered to BAD gene.

What we can do :
Let us battle against this deadly disease by all means we can. Once we change our Attitude and decide to adopt a healthy life style, nothing is impossible.

Give up all processed foods, eat nature's gift- fruits and vegetables which is loaded with high amount of anti-oxidants. Beware of GMO foods. Don't believe on any food product that advertises on Television. Sure it will has its own bad face. Before buying any processed food packet, google on how it is processed, check for preservatives and chemicals in it, think twice is it necessary to buy.

Know the importance of drinking ample amount of water. Try going for a walk or doing exercise or yoga continuously for one month. Then you will never give up the habit if you are "determined"!

Respect your body. Every machine needs fuel but lubrication makes it to work smoothly. 

"Prevention is better than cure"

 Introducing Alphabet for Toddlers

We introduced Alphabet for our Little One when he was around 18 months. We bought a foam sheet ABC puzzle and he started to show interest in playing with that. I never thought he would start learning the letters at an early age. 

We want to make his learning more fun. So what I did was, I stuck alphabet with a related picture/toy all around our living room. I stuck the letters one at a time so that he would get familiarized with that before I move on to the next one.

We bought another kinda foam alphabet and I used letters from that to stick on the wall. Like for 'A' Apple, and for 'B' Butterfly....

We did the pictures for few alphabet together, so it was also a kinda craft time for me and LO:) We used pipe cleaners, colored ice cream sticks and foam sheets to do some of them. We completely enjoyed doing it. For 'K','C' and 'J' it was my husband's idea.

LO loved this idea lot and had immense pleasure looking around for the letters with the pictures.

We still have these letters on the wall and its been more than a year and a half, even now LO loves looking around for them.

 The World of Kids

The World of most kids is now occupied by Gadgets. The Gadgets are the "Guru" now-a-days. Daily we read many articles in social media about the bad effects of Gadget exposure on children. But we are not able to quit the habit cold-turkey, methinks.

Nevertheless my kid is not an exception. I exposed him to gadgets before he turned one to make him eat, during long travel and to calm him down in public places when he threw tantrums. Hussssshhhh...The moment I hand-over the gadget to him he calms down immediately. He is 3 now. And very lately I realized the mistake I'm doing and the fact it's not shame to see my child throwing tantrums in common place.

Check out this link: Steve Jobs was a Low Tech Parent
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?_r=0

Once we make up our mind to make our child "Gadget-free",ways to keep them engaged pops-up immensely.
I'll keep you posted with the activities for babies, toddlers and preschoolers which would keep them engaged for hours. Let's bring our children "Gadget-free".