As most of you know we have an adorable 2 1/2 year old little boy who is always wanting to be a part of our garage projects. He wanted desperately today to use "Turner" and "Phillipe." I've been trying to come up with things that he can do in the garage that is safe, and fun for him. Below are some of the pictures of the projects that we've created.
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I took a branch that blew down in the last storm and drilled a series of holes in the branch. These served as pilot holes for Miles to drill a variety of screws into.
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| Miles can match up the nuts and bolts. It serves as a great fine motor development activity, and is relatively inexpensive to create if you buy "by the pound" at the farm store. |
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| Watering the garden, or missing as the case may be. |
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| Hammering nails in a board and removing them with "Pat the Hammer." |
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| Sometimes we just have him pop in the car and "play driving." |
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| The cars can always use another washing. Too bad he's too small to do an adequate job on the dog. |
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| When you just need a good spin, play airplane! |
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| Keeps him away from under fast cars and dangerous chemicals. |
Another project that I'm working on creating I took from "Teacher Tom." Its a peg board that uses "tree cookies" (Tree Cookies=pieces of tree cut into 2 inch sections and then have holes drilled into them.) I just need to finish cutting my dowel rods and then drill the holes. I wanted to buy the dowel rods before I drilled the holes in the tree cookies, so I would create them in the right size. It looks like it will be a lot of fun! I'm pretty excited about creating more manipulatives for Miles to use in the garage.
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