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Toddler Counting Fun . encourages very young children to explore texture during this sensory counting experience. Materials: Lunch paper bag and cotton balls. Description: Place cotton balls in a lunch size bag. Ask the child to reach into the bag and grab a handful of cotton balls. Put the cotton balls on the floor and count them out loud as the child watches, or helps. Teach toddlers five colors with this song . Materials: White work gloves; red, yellow, green, blue and orange paint. Description: Take the white gloves and paint the fingers only of both hands. Paint them red, yellow, blue, green, orange, so that you have two of each color. Then, sing this song. Tune: "Are You Sleeping"Where is red? (bring one hand up with all fingers showing) Where is red? (repeat with other hand.) Here I am, (wave one hand) Here I am (wave other hand) Show me if you can, (Hold hands up) Show me if you can. Where is red? Where is red?Repeat this with all the colors allowing the toddlers to show you the colors. Dinosaur Eggs Two year old preschoolers discover what is inside of an egg after patiently awaiting it's time to hatch. secret recipe for "Sand Goop". Materials: Plastic eggs, small dinosaurs and teacher made "sand goop" (recipe below). "Sand Goop" Recipe 1 cup sand 1/2 cup cornstarch 1/2 tsp. alum 1/2 c. water.Cook on medium heat stirring until thick. Cook to touch. Put dino into the plastic egg and cover with "sand goop". Place in "nest". On Monday, talk about dinosaurs and how big their eggs were. Show the children the "eggs" YOU found. Say, "Look how big they are. What kind could they be?" The eggs should still be wet. Tell children that we have to watch them until they turn white and crack. When ready, let children finish cracking them open and find their dinosaur.