Learning for Little Ones - building a big tower

I bought Emma some Mega Bloks on a garage sale for $3 and she loves building things with them. They are the perfect size for her and after some practice, she can now put them together and take them apart pretty easily. I'm sure it's teaching her good hand-eye coordination! Our latest fun with blocks is building big towers. Most of the time she doesn't build very stable towers, but that's okay.


I've been trying to teach her the colors of the blocks, but everything still is blue. Because of her blue chair. Or blue-white. Because of the neighbors' white dog. Which are both things I've referred to exclusively as the "blue chair" or the "white dog". We need to get something where she can match the colors...like a puzzle. Add it to her wish list!!

The blocks are good for chewing on, also. Although she is getting better at not putting everything in her mouth.

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Learning for Little Ones - Coloring

Lately Emma has loved coloring. She even made up a sign for "color" just to get her point across. She points her pointer finger and pretends like she's coloring something with her finger. It's so cute, I have to say "okay, let's color". Even though sometimes she tries to eat the crayons.

Anyway, today she really wanted me to just write her name for her. I wrote it out while telling her the letters. I don't know if she actually was learning anything but she did say one of the letters. And I've been trying to tell her the colors that she or I am using, but she still thinks everything is blue. Maybe after a lot of repetition she'll figure out some of the colors.

So coloring is a good learning activity for us. We are hopefully learning colors and her name. And how not to eat our crayons. And not to color on the table. Still working on everything, though.

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