Tag Archives: Toy Tuesday

Toy Tuesday: Animals

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Elaine (Littlesheep Learning)

Most children have some toy animals – the standard plastic toy animals, wooden ones (often from Noah’s Ark sets) or soft toy ones – so how can these be used to help children learn? Labelling the animals, the different parts … Continue reading →

Posted in Activity Ideas | Tagged incidental learning, Toy Tuesday | Leave a comment

Toy Tuesday: Transport

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Elaine (Littlesheep Learning)

Being in a house of boys we have quite a collection of vehicles and they are forever driving them around the furniture but can they be used for learning? Thinking back to life before children when I worked with children with … Continue reading →

Posted in Activity Ideas | Tagged colour, matching, sorting, Toy Tuesday, transport | 1 Comment

Toy Tuesday: Dressing Up

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Elaine (Littlesheep Learning)

Do you have a dressing up box? If so you’ll know that children love to dress up and play pretend games. Did you ever think about all the things that children can learn by dressing up? First of all - conventional … Continue reading →

Posted in Activity Ideas, Motor Skills, Self Help Skills | Tagged dressing skills, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, play, Toy Tuesday | Leave a comment

Toy Tuesday: Tea Party

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Elaine (Littlesheep Learning)

For today’s Toy Tuesday we are getting out the teddies and the tea set and having a pretend tea party. So how can this be educational? write invitations to practice writing skills count plates and teddies to set up the … Continue reading →

Posted in Activity Ideas | Tagged activity ideas, incidental learning, matching, play, Toy Tuesday | Leave a comment

Toy Tuesday: Lego Learning

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Elaine (Littlesheep Learning)

I have three boys so perhaps unsurprisingly we have LOTS of Lego in our house and it is something that they all play together with so it seemed a good first toy to choose for Toy Tuesday. Despite them getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Activity Ideas, Literacy, Motor Skills, Numeracy | Tagged activity ideas, construction play, creative play, fine motor skills, play, Toy Tuesday | 1 Comment

Holiday Posts

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Elaine (Littlesheep Learning)

Over the holidays I’m planning a set of themed posts which all include things to do and ideas to encourage your child’s learning – I hope they are helpful to you… The themes are: Messy Monday – messy play activities … Continue reading →