With your child: make animals, people, etc., from pipe cleaners, string large beads, use play money.
Make a tent with and old curtain, sheet or blanket draped over a card table or two chairs.
Make puppets from old socks. Tell a story with characters.
Plant seeds in paper cups (lemon, orange, grapefruit seeds, grass seeds, carrot top, sweet potato, etc.).
Cut and paste together on a piece of cardboard scraps of old fabric.
Use cardboard boxes like blocks.
Play dress-up.
Dance to a favorite song on the stereo.
Finger paint a design on a table using shaving cream.
Use modeling clay or “playdoh” (get out the cookie cutters, rolling pins, silverware, etc.)
Blow and catch bubbles.
Make puppets from paper bags.
Give crayons and paper and let him create a picture (scribbling is important at an early age).
Fill the sink or dishpan with water and let your child play: provide cups, sponges, etc.
Read and listen to stories (books and records).
Sail boats in the bathtub.
Play store.
Make string or yarn designs (glue onto paper, wood, etc.).
Make and fly paper airplanes.
Make popsicle stick designs (glue them).
Fly a kite.
Make “things” with egg cartons (tulips, caterpillars, etc.)
Play a color game (I see something red).
Have a race, running on feet, knees, crawling, holding ankles, running backwards, etc.).
Have a pea race, blowing dried peas with a straw.
Make a “feel” box (cut a hole in the side of a box and put an object inside of the box; have the child tell what it is by feeling it).
Teach numbers and letters by cutting them out of sandpaper.
Make a picture dictionary (a page for each letter with pictures beginning with that letter).
Weigh things if you have a bathroom scale (yourselves, toys, objects).
Talk about time with your child (make a clock with a paper plate and hands cut from colored paper).
Make a counting carton (number each section of an empty egg carton, 1-12).
Play “Simon Says” (leader gives commands and others obey when preceded by the two words “Simon Says”).
Play musical chairs.
Imitate animal’s movements (frog, horse, fish, bird, duck, snake, spider, etc.).
Set up an obstacle course in the backyard (cardboard boxes, barrels, old tires, ropes, etc.).
Play a pantomime games (have your child act out a word such as hop, swim, comb, wash, chew, zipper book, swallow)
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