I found a huge, felt-backed board that was part of a Bible
visual aid set and got it out for the girls to make some shape
pictures and patterns on. I cut out some simple shapes of
varying sizes from felt sheets (I got a pack of 100 from eBay
for about £8 a little while ago), as well as some numbers and
irregular shapes too. C set about putting all of the shapes on
and talked about them as she did so using comparative and
descriptive language. “This is a BIG one!” “Put the little one
there” “One circle, two circles” “All the yellow ones go over
here” etc. I also made a simple tree shape and some leaves and
she loved putting themm all at the end of each branch. She then
added some little red circles to make “apples.” Baby thought the
whole thing was wonderful and came along to see how much she
could pull off in 30 seconds flat! It took her a few minutes to
work out she could stick things on again, and when she did she
had a whale of a time. On, off, on, off, on, off- perfect baby
activity! We kept it out all da