Last weekend we got the opportunity to get out and enjoy the warm weather, fishing, as a family. I didn't realize how much fun it would be frolicking on the pebbly river banks! We weren't able to, nor did we want to, pack any of our two-year-olds curriculum, so we just played it by ear. And with a little bit of creativity we were able to muster up some fun activities that kept him entertained and engaged all day!
As we walked alongside the river we noticed there was a pattern of different colored pebbles everywhere! So I organized a quick "game" where we sorted the pebbles by color. The pictures below show the colors orange, blue and purple, but there were many other colors. And this game alone could have kept us entertained for at least an hour. We also could have taken it further by making different color patters, counting them and by laying out several of the smaller pebbles into letter forms.
My husband also carried our son on his back for a portion of the day and our son got to experience how his daddy catches a fish! He was very impressed with daddy's fish, and really happens to believe his daddy is his hero. :) One of my favorite things that day was watching my son touch the fish for the first time - which is also a sensory activity.
During our hike we stumbled across this tree! It was a beautiful opportunity to tell our son about beavers and their habitats. We're also working on prepositions right now, so in our conversation I would make room for that (eg. The pine tree is behind the tree stump. Or the beaver is in the water etc.)
And we found a frog! Of course this all was nothing new for my husband and myself. But, it was a whole new world for our son! We spent time talking about each item that caught our sons interest: ants, flying insects, plants, bushs, logs, rocks, pine cones, mushrooms, animals etc. our biggest focus was to enlarge our sons understanding of the wild life around us. And it's an amazing thing to see him start to understand the things that we teach him.
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