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My 28 month old daughter soaks up information like the proverbial sponge, with her vocabulary increasing every day-she speaks in sentences now and tells us JOKES!-and she LOVES to learn new things. Even after eleven years of parenting, I am always looking for creative suggestions on ways to teach concepts and have fun at the same time, so I was thrilled to find the book Gymboree Play & Learn, 1001 fun activities for your baby and child.

The book is divided into separate sections for babies ages 0+, 3+, 6+, 9+, 12+, 18+, 24+, 30+, and then years 3, 4, and 5. In the 24+ section, I found suggestions for teaching patterns using colored blocks, making a homemade sock octopus toy, tying shoe boxes together for a stuffed animal “train” (I just sent a bunch of shoe boxes to recycling, darn it!), painting sugar cookies with food coloring, teaching rhyming words, even teaching the positive side of the word “no” by asking ridiculous questions like “are we standing in the ocean right now?”. There are enough suggestions to keep us going for months!

And because she loves to “read” and be read to, I also got the Gymboree board books Shapes, and also Alphabet. All of these books use easy to recognize shapes in colors that just pop off the page.

Click any of the above links to go to the pages on Amazon where you can buy Play & Learn and the Shapes or Alphabet board books, you and your child are sure to enjoy them!

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