This article is dedicated to Kelly, or whoever parents wana self help at home for young toddler
How to make my toddler focus and do things on table or within the boundary when drawing1. Encourage your child to draft on big mahjong paper.
You can help to guide your child to draft on big mahjong paper. Create an interesting atmosphere during the session, such as play nursery rythm songs, while drawing, singing at
the same time.
2. Practise montessori exercise such as practical, math and sensorial.
Do it within a mat. You may want to consider from this blog
http://theworkplan.blogspot.com/ Personally I like the idea of doing simple mathematic practise such as sorting on the mat. This at least can focus more than 10 mins, by given variety items to sort them. Our home has
lots of resource to use, no really need to buy montessori materials
3. Prepare lots of recycle paper as scribble paper for them. I recycle my old school days exam writing pad, some of my old exercise books that left over pages, my brother also donated some to me during his last housekeeping. I stappler them into small booklet, and let the child draw
anytime when in the mode of drawing. After the drawing, put a star marking or place sticker to encourage them to do this more. Slowly the child will be drawing more on the writing paper book, instead of all over the place in the house.
4. Reward the child when he/she do the right thing. The important is when the child do the right thing, give a reward like draw star or sticker. They will naturally repeating the right habbit.
5. Invest a big/small white boards. I have 2 big white boards at home, on is hanging type, one is standing type. So all the children can draw freely on the board. Normally I bought those cheapo white board maker for them to scribble.
Note : ensure the permenant marker is not able to reach for them to prevent "disasterous". I also have small white board for them to draw during sitting on study table.
Hope this help!
