Dot to dot remix

Last week I saw the giant dot to dot that they did over on http://www.momandkiddo.blogspot.com/ and fell in love! M has been on a coloring book marathon for months and there are always dot to dots and mazes in them. But they are too small and too complicated for her to do them successfully. No one is going to work that long at a task that is way too hard for them. Especially our children! We need to set them up to succeed.

I cut a big square from our newspaper end roll and made her a basic 1-12 dot to dot. She loved it! Plus I taped to the wall for an added extra 'this is differnt' factor. When she was done she wanted her doll house babies to come check it out. The big sister rode her tricycle on the road M made, and the baby was pushed in her stroller along it.

A few days later I decided to expand on the idea and creat a large maze for her. Again, it was a huge hit! When the maze was completed, M wanted to go back and color the baby who needed to go home. For it he next maze, I was instructed to draw a mommy, a big sister and a baby who needed to get home. After they we safely home, M gave them all beautiful, and extremely long hair!

It's fun to play and learn outside the box, you never know what will happen.

How do you set your child up for success?