Cooking

Cooking dinner with my kids has become a daily activity. My daughter loves to stand up on top of a chair and help me in the kitchen. Even though it usually makes a bit of a mess, it is fun to see her get excited about cooking! It also makes her a little more likely to eat dinner when I remind her that she helped me make it!
I hope that everyone is enjoying cooking week! If your kids are big fans of Disney Playhouse, be sure to check out "Tasty Time with Ze Fronk!" There are videos, recipes and printable coloring sheets online for your kids!

H is for house and so much more!

Since we are learning all about houses this week, we are also learning about letter H! My daughter and I took these pictures today of things around our house that begins with letter H. I am going to print them and hang them on the refrigerator so that we can see them all week long! I did this last week with letter C also. When each week is over, we are going to make a little book out of the pictures. Hopefully, over time, we can make all 26 homemade letter books! I just wanted to share this incase anyone else wants to try it!

My Address

My sister called me today and told me that she was teaching her three year old their address as part of Houses week! I thought this was such a great idea, that I wanted to share it!
If anyone has any other fun ideas, email me at corey@teachyourtot.com and I will post them here!

Photos Week

I hope that everyone is enjoying photos week! My two little toddlers are loving it! We completed our ABC pictures yesterday (it took a few days to take 26 pictures) and printed it. They have loved looking through and "reading" their homemade picture book today.
After talking about the letter C and writing it or trying our very best to write it, we took pictures of things around the house that start with Letter C. I actually printed these pictures and hung them on the refrigerator for us to look at everyday! My almost three year old loves it!
We are going to work on our color book tomorrow, but I mangaged to take this picture of an orange ball while we were playing outside yesterday!

And we completed our number book also today! We counted bananas, or bannies as my kids call them!

Leave us a comment and let us know how your week is going!

Wonder Website for Mouth Week

Since your toddler is learning all about their mouth and sense of taste this week, I wanted to recommend a fantastic website! Weelicious features amazing recipes for babies and toddlers (as well as for the entire family).
We were at a birthday party for a good friend's baby a few weeks ago and she made a beat dip recipe from this awesome website. I know what you are thinking...beat dip? How can that be good? But, let me tell you, it was fantastic and super healthy, not to mention that it was hot pink! What could be more fun for your toddler than dipping his favorite bread or cracker into hot pink yummy dip! My friend gave me the name of the website and I was hooked. We actually made Weelicious' Indian Lentil recipe last night and, again, I was not disappointed.
Take a few minutes and browse through some of these yummy recipes and snacks. Maybe you could find a few that you and your toddler could make and taste together this week!

Time to Update

It has been awhile since I have updated the Teach Your Tot blog. When I started this website, I wanted the blog to be an "extra" place for ideas. But as you all know, life with little ones is so time consuming, that this area of the website has been neglected. However, I am going to begin posting on the blog again. My goal is to try introduce one new toddler product or website to you each week via the TYT blog. I would also LOVE to share pictures of your kids doing Teach Your Tot activities as well. If you have any pictures that you want to share, please email them to me corey@teachyourtot.com) with a brief description and I will post them on the blog.
Thank you for everyone's involvement with Teach Your Tot. I hope that everyone enjoys the ideas and activties as much as we do!
Corey

Fruit Pictures

My daughter and I had a great time creating our grocery list (filled with fruit) today and taking it with us to the grocery store! She carried it around with her and found all the fruit on the list!
I decided to post all the pictures that we took. If you want, you can right click on each picture, save and print it to create your toddler's fruit books this week!