Hi everyone! Happy Thursday!
I've previously shared that I try to keep five major areas of development (fine motor, gross motor, sensory, vocabulary/ language, and social/emotional) in mind when creating age-appropriate activities to help support growth for my 20-month-old daughter, L.
One activity that I've found to pretty much hit every one of these areas of development is STICKERS!
Fine Motor: This one is probably the most obvious. Toddlers must concentrate on using his or her pincer grasp, especially with handling small stickers.
Gross Motor: Different types of gross motor can be incorporated into sticker play. Above, you can see L squatting while manipulating her fish stickers.
Sensory: Stickers are STICKY! Sticky isn't necessarily a texture L experiences daily.
Vocabulary/ Language: Toddlers can learn new words and their meanings through a variety of different kinds, colors, and shapes of stickers.
Social/ Emotional: Stickers allow little learners to explore self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
Stickers are an inexpensive teaching tool. Additionally, stickers are so versatile that you can use them to teach or reteach basically anything. In the picture above, you can see that we used stickers to review L's color recognition. She can sort colors quickly now, but we've been continuing to work on having her independently verbalize the names of colors.
Think about how you could incorporate stickers into teaching your toddler. What are some ideas that you have? I'd love to hear from you in the comments below!
Thanks for reading! I hope you continue to follow along to find (and share!) inspiration, information, and innovation! :-) Have a great weekend everyone!
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