Tower of Babel 1 Year Old Ideas

We read a version of the this story in different children's Bibles daily.  Even on our busy days when our schedule is thrown off, I try to make it a point to read to the babies.  During this story, we focused on building/construction.  We built with several types of blocks and items including cardboard blocks, foam blocks, play dough, sand, books, cups, etc.


I also focused on teaching numbers and counting 1 through 5 both in Spanish and English to reinforce how they spoke different languages
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For sensory play we tried to build bricks with sand and play dough.  J loved having sand indoors!

We built with MegaBloks.

We played outside in the sandbox!

I let them pretend to be construction workers.  I think they enjoyed the hat more than playing with the blocks.


For an art lesson, we made our own Tower out of construction paper.  They painted clouds using cotton balls.  They finger painted the green grass, and then I allowed them to glue on the bricks anywhere they wanted with as little of guidance as possible.  I used glue stick to make most of the paper sticky so that they could lay down the papers anywhere they wanted.  It took a few days to finish these.  I don't push the boys to do anything they don't want; therefore, if they get tired of doing 'work' we stop for the day and do something else.

Battle of Jericho

We begin each lesson every day reading a version from a children's Bible of the Battle of Jericho.  Then I try to have a small activity daily for reinforcement.  I also try to have a main theme for them to learn or explore.

This unit we learned about instruments to go along with blowing horns to knock wall over.  They also loved knocking over the block walls I built.
  


Along with the instrument theme, we read Pots and Pans.  They enjoyed using kitchen items to make music!




We participated in the Mommy's and Me class at the library and enjoyed playing with bells!
     
We also played with kinder music instruments that were bought at a yard sale along with other rattles.  We read "How Big is Baby Elmo" because of the part where it says he's in a band.  That is by far the boys' favorite book!



Eventually, I broke out my old keyboard and let them explore the music and keys on it.  They loved it!