It is essential that written language is purposeful and meaningful to your child. Try the following activities.  1. Help your child learn the letters of the alphabet. Read ABC books, play letter-matching games, and work on puzzles to help her identify letters. Invite her to make letters using clay. 2. Take pictures of […]
Learning to write is a thrilling adventure for your child. It’s also key to building her reading skills. Like grown-ups, children use writing to communicate to others. You’ve probably noticed your child pretending to write notes, make lists, and take phone messages to embellish her dramatic play. These early activities provide powerful motivation to learn […]
Children will have a brand new answer to the question, “What’s for breakfast?” Â empty cereal boxes white paper glue tape markers, pencils, crayons old newspaper computer (optional) Â Children will create a new cereal and cereal box design to strengthen creative-thinking, problem-solving, language, and writing skills. Â Place a variety of the collected cereal […]
 salt dough (follow recipe) or air drying clay tempera paint or food coloring materials to decorate sculptures, such as feathers, art wire, toothpicks, smooth small wood shapes, buttons, and rocks paintbrushes  Children will help mix up a batch of salt dough to create animal sculptures. This activity will encourage scientific observation, creativity, imaginative […]
 Kids will love creating these Jackson Pollock-inspired fashion statements.  Read a children’s book about the artist, such as Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, and Robert Andrew Parker. Gather materials for your shirt project.  cotton t-shirt fabric or acrylic paints squeezable bottles  Fill squeezable bottles with a colorful variety of […]
The idea is that you want the ants to make it over to the picnic. Â How to make the game: I used a circle punch to make the black circles and glued them on to folder to make a path for the ants to take from the start to the finish, which is the […]
 The more children play with modeling materials, the more likely they are to want to help prepare, store, and even clean up — and soon your messy activities won’t seem so messy after all!  Playing with clay and other modeling materials is a tactile experience that benefits children in many ways, but it […]
 2 blue file folders 1 manila file folder Mod Podge (we used the Sparkle kind) blue tissue paper (we used two shades of blue) fish stickers (2 matching sets) glue scissors   First, I cut the manila file folder in half and then cut out the bowl shape. (I traced around an oval […]
