Infant and Toddler: December 2016

Today, our group discovered some new, exciting ways to play with yogurt containers and plastic balls.

Even simple objects can create such enlightening experiences!

Our children developed some new fine motor skills as they placed the containers together, dropped the balls (from a distance) into each container and spun the containers around so the balls inside of them would spin.

A child carries two different colored balls.

The children select balls to sort out.

He sorts all of the white balls into one container!

Many children also developed memory skills by having someone else place a ball into a container and letting them choose between 2 containers to decide which one the ball was in.

This experience also allowed the children to enhance many of the skills they have already acquired. A couple examples of this include: enhancing depth perception by throwing the balls from a distance into a container (just like basketball) and enhancing organizational skills by sorting each type of ball into a different container.

He removes the white balls as he adds the green ones!

When the group was done with the balls, we decided to take a trip to a place we haven't been in awhile; the gym.

Stomping around on the mats!

"We play so well together!"

Play in the gym is not only exciting and fun, but it also plays a part in developing skills and physical development!

We worked on mostly gross motor skills while in the gym; throwing around balls and rolling on mats!