Activities for One Year Olds

[Momof4]

Thanks for the ideas LittleFeet. We're starting our Christmas crafts tomorrow and I spent a lot of money at Dollarama on the weekend. But we're ready to create.

When you were talking about ziplock bag activities I remembered the best way to paint. Mess free painting. Someone I know found it and shared with us, probably from Pinterest. Put a few squirts of differen colours of acrylic paints in a big ziplock bag with a few tablespoons of oil and the paint and oil won't mix. The children can push the paint around through the bag. I used little ziplock bags for the babies. They LOVE this!

My opinion of sensory is that no matter what we do, what the children touch or look at or smell, it's ALL sensory. So if it's a baggie or box full of different things for them to look at, yes that's sensory, if it's crawling on the rug, that's sensory, smelling a flower, playing with leggo, and so on and so on. Everything they eat, touch, play with is all different. I like to make sure I have a good supply of different kinds of toys and crafting but I wouldn't want a bin full of sand or water or rice in my house. Outside, yes, inside no!