https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 23:14:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-do-educational-activities-with-your-lo#post-2497665 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:18:58 +0000 yoursilverlining 2497665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess it depends on what you mean by education. Do we sit and do workbooks and do I have her sit and listen to me “teaching” – no, of course not. But just about everything you do is educational. </p> <p>Do your LO’s help cook at all – there’s math, science and more. Do you ever ask them how many of something they see? Or what color something is, or how something feels in their hands? That’s educational. All those questions get them thinking and making connections in their minds. Building blocks are educational, art/craft activities can easily double as science type “lessons” (using the term very loosely!), math and more. </p> <p>Something as easy as when you’re having a snack talking about the taste of something, the shape, the color, the texture, how many snack items you have, etc. All that is educational, but it’s also just natural parenting. </p> <p>So yeah, we do a lot of educational activities with LO! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-do-educational-activities-with-your-lo#post-2497641 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:07:03 +0000 Bao 2497641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hawksaz: I'm thinking informal, like the girls want to have a garden so maybe I'll just go off ideas for that...or go to the zoo and then teach them about specific animals. Something like that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-do-educational-activities-with-your-lo#post-2497638 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:06:15 +0000 Mamaof2 2497638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes - my DS craves science and art projects!</p> <p>We find most ideas online or he will just ask to mix a bunch of stuff together and see what happens!</p> <p>Volcanoes are super fun and easy<br /> Marbled paper<br /> exploding bags<br /> collect nature and make a collage<br /> leaf rubbings<br /> for the older kids we just dissected owl pellets - he loved it (thank you amazon!)<br /> modeling with clay</p> <p>some fav websites:<br /> <a href="http://theimaginationtree.com/" rel="nofollow">http://theimaginationtree.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://handsonaswegrow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://handsonaswegrow.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.learnwithplayathome.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.learnwithplayathome.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://preschoolpowolpackets.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://preschoolpowolpackets.blogspot.com/</a><br /> (her elephant tooth paste one is super fun) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-do-educational-activities-with-your-lo#post-2497609 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:51:06 +0000 looch 2497609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, I do, but not workbook type things. I recently bought my son a set of math dice and we do addition with those. He also loves Rory's story cubes for story telling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-do-educational-activities-with-your-lo#post-2497510 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:11:26 +0000 hawksaz 2497510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm jealous! My little guy wouldn't do anything remotely "educational" until he went to preschool and he's still really resistant. I think it's a "boy" thing. He just never wants to sit and "learn." But he absolutely loves to read, so we've done that since he was born. </p> <p>With my other two boys, I don't think I will try to do anything formal unless they seem interested. We do a lot of play during the day though, and I make sure we get outside and go to other places like parks, museums, etc., so they have a change of environment. </p> <p>As for learning ideas that come from play time - my 4-year-old loves Legos. I also let him and the 2-year-old play with dry noodles and "cook". That's all I've got right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-do-educational-activities-with-your-lo#post-2497467 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:51:35 +0000 Bao 2497467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't go out of my way to do anything now since she is in preschool, but we did used to work on things more before school started. I think this summer I want to do fun educational things but in a fun/play sort of way.</p> <p> Share any ideas you have for fun educational at home activities! </p>