These awesome magnets are one of the things I purchased from Lakeshore Learning Materials for $10 bucks I think. They come with 10 different colored round magnets and 40 different match cards. There is a pole that you place the magnets on and depending if they are placed on their positive or negative sides, they will stick together or repel and float/hover. Its pretty cool!
You can tell by his face that he thought so too.
He was so excited about what the magnets were actually doing that we didn't focus as much on the actual matching part of it (as you can tell). But I did give him a magnet wand to play with as well and it kept this crazy little guy busy and quiet for almost an hour.
That's a record folks.
My only complaint is that I would love for them to have plus or minus sides on each side of the magnet to tell which sides are which. I think I'll just end up doing it myself with a sharpie.
We did some gluing for art too. I literally used scrap pieces of construction paper that we had drew on marked on that would have just got tossed. I ripped them up into pieces, gave him some glue watered down with a paint brush and a piece of cardboard. Easy. Recycling. Free. (The little Cars glue cup is an old Easter egg cup that you buy when you dye the eggs. I save ours because they make awesome paint/glue cups!)
Playing IS learning! What we learned today:
Magnets have positive and negative sides
Magnets can attract or repel each other depending what side we use
Following directions (okay so we're working on that one!)
That we can reuse paper for other purposes (Recycling art paper)
Fine motor skills (Holding a paint brush, gluing paper)
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