Julie filled gallon sized Ziploc bags for her daughter, who is 2. Here is a list of some of the great things she has used.
*Cardboard tube with small ball and small car
*Several color-by-number sheets torn from old coloring books we had lying around
*Index cards with various numbers of stickers on them, number cards, and magnetic transparent bingo chips with magnet. Can match number cards to sticker cards or cover stickers with chips and count.
*Small clipboard with same sized corrugated cardboard and construction paper for hole-punching (lay cardboard under construction paper), use small nail (supervised, of course)
*Paper and stencils in bag with small clipboard, also
*Bag of about 50 spare buttons assort. sizes, shapes, colors
*Several different packs of alphabet flash cards, all mixed up together, for matching
*Crayola color wonder paper, coloring book, and color wonder markers (don�t write on anything but the special paper)
*Index cards with thick marker line squiggles or zigzags to cut with kiddie scissors, also in bag. In the same bag, several sheets of regular and construction paper, and some sheets of pictures that didn�t print right from our digital camera.
*Color flash cards, watercolor paints pack, q-tips.
*Sticker activity books
*Plastic craft "canvas" and large needles and yarn to "sew"
*Pack of colorful paper clips and magnet
*Pringles can with small slot cut in lid, filled with variety of plastic coins from school supply store
*Pattern blocks and patterns to make with them
*Linking cubes
*Jar of lacing pictures
*Lacing shoe to practice tying
*Mini-play-doh packs with alphabet cookie cutters (small)
*Lacing spools and plastic lace
*Counters, color chips, and colors flash cards to do matching, sorting (counters are frogs, kittens, mice and puppies)
*Large peg board
*Magnetic letters, numbers, shapes and magnetic board to go with
*Small snack container of beads (very small, variety), empty container, frozen orange juice lids, and tweezers
Julie's kids each have their own pencil box- her toddler�s is one of those cheap cardboard ones you can get at school supply stores and it has a small ruler, small stencil with alphabet on it, plastic safety scissors, Crayola large crayons, Crayola large sized color pencils (very cute, btw) and a beginner�s writing pencil. She loves having her own and chose it herself (it has the United States on it).
Homeschooling with your preschooler at the table doesn�t have to be a distraction any more!