ideas 4 a very EL Christmas

This reminded me of the light brite. James got it for his third birthday a few days ago.

Good for patterns, counting, fine motor and just a lot of fun.

http://www.amazon.com/Educational-Insights-Design-Activity-Center/dp/B00012O42W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355456278&sr=8-1&keywords=Design+and+drill


So cool!!!

What would you propose for my 15 mo (16 for Christmas) twins? All these ideas are very interesting, but I find them most suitable for 2-3 year toddlers, am I right? I would appreciate any idea from you all, you have soooo much experience!!!
Thank you!!

My 5 yr old got the Snap Circuits Jr kit for Christmas and we are loving it!! I’m just not sure ifi want to spend $10 more to get the student book to really learn more about the science behind each project. http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-SC-100-Snap-Circuits-Jr/dp/B00008BFZH/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1356929792&sr=8-2&keywords=Snap+circuits

Would highly recommend it to older EL kids to use with their parents, great bonding time too.

There are lots of good option online, you know that you can make your own lighting table at home for maybe $5? search from some idea on bloggers, moms put great stuff for their kids very cheaple, at the end you child can’t tell the difference at all, if you paid $200 or $5, as soon as it works he will never see the difference.

You can choose a french learning program for your kids, becasue i have seen in many news papers, that there is a huge demand of this language trainer in many countries.
You can go for it.