I made these with stones I got at Michael’s, I painted them with white acrylic first, and then painted art with acrylic paint using miniature brushes, and finished the details with brush pen.ĭraw or glue printed color wheel to a box, make openings of the size that fit crafts sticks, and encourage your toddler to insert each craft stick to the matching color section on the wheel. 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. Scarlett loves this activity because it involves matching and animals.

Learning games for 3 year olds free