Baby Explorers: October 2019

Baby Explorers is the program I run for infants and toddlers 0-36 months, where we use activities, crafts, and early science experiments to explore the world around us. I try to include 4 activities per session: gross motor, fine motor, create (a craft or take home activity), and explore (a sensory activity). Here's what we were up to this month:

Fine Motor: Pipe cleaner threading- we used giant pipe cleaners and slices of foam pool noodles to practice threading. Of course some of us just had fun playing with the pipe cleaners!

Explore: Sensory bottles- I filled several bottles with a variety of objects to explore. Some were heavy, some made a lot of sound, and some were shiny. Adults were encouraged to talk about the colors, textures, and sounds they experienced.

Gross Motor: Ball pit- we filled our kiddie pool with balls from our play time set. The sides of the pool were nice for our babies who needed a little help sitting up and adults were encouraged to talk about the colors they saw in the pool (and also to talk to the other adults about how cute all the babies were!)

Create: Unfortunately I didn't get any photos, but our Create station was making bath tub clings. Kids or adults drew shapes on foam sheets and then cut them out. When they're wet, they cling to the sides of the bath tub!