The journal
Notes on keeping small people busy
Short, practical pieces on early skills, printing, and what a small person can actually do on their own.
- Seasonal Halloween activities for preschoolers you can print tonight Friendly ghosts, patient cats and pumpkins that smile. Things to do in October that need a printer and a box of crayons, nothing more. Read the piece
- Early skills Pencil grip at 3 and 4: when to help and when to wait Most grips sort themselves out. Here is what is normal at each age, what actually helps, and the one thing that makes it worse. Read the piece
- Early skills Pre-writing skills: what to practice before letters The strokes, the grip and the sitting still that make letters possible, and the order to work on them. Read the piece
- Quiet time Printable activities for 3 year olds that actually hold their attention Which pages work at three, which ones are secretly for five year olds, and how to get more than four minutes out of any of them. Read the piece
- Quiet time Quiet time activities for a 4 year old that need no screen Twenty to thirty minutes of calm, on a normal weekday, with nothing to set up and nothing to wash afterwards. Read the piece
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