April 5th- April 11th
Toddler and Preschool Activities
Sunday: House Tour
Toddler: Take your toddler on a "tour" of your house/apartment. See how many things you can give your toddler to touch, open, feel. Talk about textures (use words like smooth, rough, bumpy, sharp, breakable) and explain how things work.
Preschooler: Have them take you on a tour. Ask them to tell you about everything they see. What is important to them, what do they tell you about? Listen and repeat what your child is telling you about.
Monday: Colors/Bath Time
Toddler and Preschool
You will need food coloring. Add drops of color to the water in the tray. Use different colors in different sections. Freeze.
When your child takes a bath put ice cubes in the tub, one at a time. Watch how they melt. Discuss colors, how things melt, and temperature of water and ice cubes.
Tuesday: Let's Play Ball
Toddler: Sit on the floor and roll a ball back and forth. Get a small bin and try to throw the ball into it.
Preschooler: Take a laundry basket and try to throw the ball in it. Keep track of where you are standing and take steps back every time you make a basket. Discuss distance and speed. (Use words like fast, slow, far, near, closer, next to, and under)
Wednesday: Music/Raid your kitchen!
Toddler: Bang on pots and pans with spoons. Shake smaller plastic bowls inside larger plastic bowls. Watch as your toddler puts one bowl in and dumps it out repeatedly.
Preschooler: Use plastic bowls with plastic spoons, metal pans with metal utensils, and wooden spoons on a wooden surface (cutting board, small stool). Talk to your preschooler about the different sounds and different materials. See if they can notice anything about the sounds, or if they prefer one material over the others.
Thursday: Let's Get Messy!
Toddler and Preschooler
Let's finger paint. No worries about your toddler eating the paint...we can make edible finger paint! Pick a recipe from below. Use the "paint" on paper, paper plates, or directly on the tray of your highchair.
Recipe Ideas:
Flour and water
Pudding
Rediwhip
If you want different colors add food coloring.
Friday: Artsy Fartsy
You will need paper and crayons or pencils.
Toddler: Draw, show your toddler how to draw lines... "Big Ones" from top to bottom of the page, "little ones", curvy, circles etc. They will scribble and that is GREAT! Now write their name on the top and put it on the wall with blue tape or hang it on your refrigerator. Show any one who stops by and watch how proud your child is.
DISPLAYING ART-Blue tape is painter tape and a treasure with small children's art work. Hang it up and take it down with out ruining the wall. Another idea is to get a clothes line and hang that in the playroom, bassement, or on a bedroom wall. Use clothes pins to hang art work and easily take down and add to the line.
Preschooler: Ask your child to tell you about something they are interested in...dinosaurs, cars, babies, grandma, or family pet. Using only the bottom half of the paper, write down the "story" they tell you. You can do minor adjustments but try to stick to their version as close as possible. Then give them the paper to draw a picture on the top. Remember to hang it up and tell them they are an author!
Ask questions to help guide them.
"What color was it?"
"What happened next?"
"How did they feel?"
"What did it look like?"
Saturday: You Can Count On Me / Number Sense
Toddler: Show your toddler everything about their faces and how they have two of some things and one of another.
Two-eyes, ears, cheeks, eyebrows, nostrils
One-chin, nose, mouth, lips, tongue.
Be silly: Wink, blink, sneeze, stick out your tongue, PLAY!
Preschooler-Same as toddler but they have a longer attention span so you can move onto fives and tens.
Two-legs, arms,knees, wrists, hands, feet
Five-fingers on one hand, toes on one foot
Ten- fingers altogether, toes altogether
Extent this and talk about symmetry!
ALWAYS REMEMBER TO READ 15 MINUTES
A DAY TO YOUR CHILD!
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation"
-Plato, Greek Philosopher
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