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7 Times I Can Do Activities with My Kids

Success: Finding Time

Jot down 7 different times of the day, or times during the week, that you can squeeze in an activity. Whether it’s before you head out for the day or after dinner. Remember that activities usually only take 15 minutes (give or take depending on the age of your child). Don’t be discouraged if you don’t have huge chunks of times. They literally can be squeezed in small spots!

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One Year Old Activity Plan: Week One

Monday: Make a necklace by threading o-shaped cereal on a string. Tape the string to a surface to secure it for threading. When complete, knot the ends together. (page 24)

Tuesday: Push ribbons into a narrow-neck bottle and pull out again. (page 25)

Wednesday: Create a sensory bag with hair gel in a baggy. Add other small objects, such as googly eyes or sequins, if desired. Tape it to the window to explore in the sunlight. (page 26)

Thursday: Lay pillows and cushions on the floor in a line. Attempt to walk across them! (page 27)

Friday: Make sensory foam with dish soap and a little bit of water in a food processor. Put on a tray to explore! (page 28)

Saturday: Use canned foods from the pantry as blocks to stack towers! (page 29)

Sunday: Look through photo ablums (print or digital) together and name people you know.

o-shaped cerealribbon or stringtape (optional)

ribbonsnarrow-neck bottle

gallon size baggy hair gelsmall objectstape

pillows and cushions

dish soapwaterfood coloring (optional)food processor tray

canned food

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One Year Old Activity Plan: Week Two

Monday: Play with play dough and drive trucks in it. (page 30)

Tuesday: Sort pom poms by color or size in a muffin tin, or just transfer them back and forth. Add tongs for some fun! (page 31)

Wednesday: Blend fresh fruits to make homemade edible finger paint. Paint paper with fingers or paint-brushes! (page 32)

Thursday: Make a ‘rattle’ with a bottle. Set out snack items (Goldfish, raisins, etc.) and a bottle to stick them in and close the lid. Shake! (page 33)

Friday: Practice pouring water from a pitcher into cups. Take it outside! (page 34)

Saturday: Tape a bubble wrap runway to the floor and run along it! Drive trucks across it to hear it pop! (page 35)

Sunday: Head to the library as a family and check out new books for everyone.

play doughtoy trucks or other toys

muffin panpom pomskitchen tongs (optional)

fresh fruitfood processor / blenderbowls or other dishespaintbrushes (optional)paper

plastic or paper cupswaterpitcher

small bottle with lidsnack items

bubble wraptoy trucks or other toys

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One Year Old Activity Plan: Week Three

Monday: Stick craft sticks into a narrow neck bottle and shake them out again. Repeat! (page 36)

Tuesday: Mix up a batch of bubbles in a bucket with dish soap and water. Add kitchen utensils to play with! (page 37)

Wednesday: Set up a very simple obstacle course with cushions (line them up, stack them, make small ramps and tunnels) and have toys to crawl across to find. (page 38)

Thursday: Cut a sponge into a desired shape (such as a heart). Dip into paint and make prints on a piece of paper. (page 39)

Friday: Use a tub of soapy water to wash favorite toys. (page 40)

Saturday: Spread corn meal onto a baking sheet to explore with measuring cups and spoons. (page 41)

Sunday: Play a game of ball as a family, roll it back and forth or toss it gently.

craft sticksnarrow neck bottle

tub or bucketdish soapwaterkitchen utensils

pillows & cushionsball or other toys

spongescissorspaperpainttray

tub or bucketsponge or toothbrushwaterdish soaptoys

corn mealbaking sheet or traymeasuring cups, spoons

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One Year Old Activity Plan: Week Four

Monday: Pour dry pasta into a tub to explore with measuring cups and spoons. Include an empty bottle or two to fill and pour between. Shake it to listen to the sounds. (page 42)

Tuesday: Cut pipe cleaners in 1” sections and push them through the holes of a large spice bottle. Poke them in, shake them out and repeat! (page 43)

Wednesday: Make a super simple edible indoor sandbox in a tub with dry oatmeal! Bring out the sandbox toys! (page 44)

Thursday: Stack plastic cups! Make a tower and knock them down, or nest them inside each other. (page 45)

Friday: Tape a runway of contact (sticky) paper to the floor, sticky side up. Run across, crawl over, or lay on it! (page 46)

Saturday: Paint with water! Whether it’s on a chalkboard filled with chalk, or the sidewalk outside. Or even on construction paper! (page 47)

Sunday: Plant something together as a family, inside in a pot or outside in the ground.

waterpaintbrushchalkchalkboard, sidewalk, construction paper

contact (sticky) paperpainter’s tape

plastic or paper cups

tub or bucketdry oatmeal or ricemeasuring cups, spoonssmall sandbox toys

pipe cleanerslarge spice bottle (or oatmeal container with holes cut in lid)

dry pastabaking sheet or traymeasuring cups, spoonsplastic bottle with lid

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Monday: Shake your way to beautiful art! Cut paper into desired shapes and lay flat in a box. Add paint blobs around the paper in the box. Add toys to the box, close it up and shake! (page 48)

Tuesday: Mix 2 cups flour with 2/3 cup oil to make cloud dough! Play with it like wet sand, mold it any way they like! (page 49)

Wednesday: Clip clothespins (slotted style is easier for younger kids) onto the edge of a bucket. (page 50)

Thursday: Fill plastic jars 2/3 with water and some dish soap. Add food coloring and glitter! Seal the lid on with glue and shake, shake, shake! (page 51)

Friday: Bang on pots and pans! Grab some spatulas and spoons and make music! (page 52)

Saturday: Make a homemade balance beam using old boards. Then walk along it! Can you do it backwards? (page 53)

Sunday: Everyone take a nap together in one big fam-ily bed.

old boards or books

pots & panskitchen utensils

large plastic jars w/ lidsdish soapwaterfood coloring (optional)glitter (optional)super glue

clothespins tub or bucket

oil (baby, vegetable, etc)flour or cornflourglitter (optional)

boxpaperpaintobjects (hard toys/balls)

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Gross Motor / Movement: Fine Motor:

Arts Projects:

Crafts: Sensory:

Just for Fun:

Activity Idea List

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How My Child is Playing:

My Child is Playing with:

My Child is Asking About:

My Child is Learning:

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Activity Details

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Set a cup on the floor and stand over a couch or railing and try to aim a piece of yarn into the cup.

Draw squiggly lines of chalk on the sidewalk, paint them with water to erase them. Tape a target on the floor and blow pom poms to hit the bullseye.

Pretend to be the “Claw Grabbing Machine” with pom poms in a bowl and grab them with a clothespin.

Cut paper snowflakes.

Wrap a rubber band around your fingers and pass objects back and forth.

Staple construction paper together to make a pouch that becomes a mailbox. Set out paper and a pencil to ‘write’ letters and mail them.

Cut an object out of paper. Write in the middle “S is for Snake” or “T is for Tree” in regards to the object. Write various letters around the edge of the object. Find the letter that the object starts with and clip each with a paper clip.

Find various pairs of leaves in nature. Tape one of each leaf on the back of a piece of paper. Rub crayons over front side of the paper to show the leaf! Match the remaining leaf to the crayon rubbings.

Write their name on a piece of paper in highlighter. Then trace over it with pencil. Trace over that with glue. Trace over that with yarn!

Poke pipe cleaners through holes in a colander.

Push ribbons into a narrow-neck bottle and pull out again.

Thread o-shaped cereal onto dry spaghetti noodles.

Cut apart and punch holes in the sides of egg carton cups and thread pipe cleaners through to connect them.

Snip straws into pieces.

Cut pipe cleaners in 1” sections and push them through the holes of a large spice bottle. Poke them in, shake them out and repeat!

Make a ‘rattle’ with a bottle. Set out snack items (Goldfish, raisins, etc.) and a bottle to stick them in and close the lid. Shake!

Stick craft sticks into a narrow neck bottle and shake them out again. Repeat!

Sort pom poms by color or size in a muffin tin, or just transfer them back and forth. Add tweezers for some fun!

Practice pouring water from a pitcher into cups. Take it outside!

Make a paper clip chain! See how long you can go.

Clip clothespins (slotted style is easier for younger kids) onto the edge of a bucket.

Play with blocks. When you’re done, hand over kitchen tongs for clean up time.

Hang a bucket from a ‘clothesline’ made with yarn. Clip ribbons around the line to remove and put in the bucket.

Stick tape onto a surface. Criss cross over each other. Peel the tape off, one by one.

Tape cardboard tubes (toilet paper, paper towels) to a wall or the fridge. Drop pom poms through to fall into a tub at the bottom.

Draw letters or shapes on a chalkboard or whiteboard. Trace over them with water to erase them away.

Roll out a tube of play dough and pound golf tees into it using a toy hammer.

Weave something with ribbon! What can the kids weave? Baby gate, stair railing, clothes basket, cooling rack.

Keep kids busy with rubber bands, or hair bands. Slide them on and off a can of food, one at a time.

Draw several dots in several colors on a piece of paper to make a simple connect the dots. Draw lines to connect the same colored dots.

Make a bird feeder by threading o-shaped cereal onto yarn and tie the ends together. Hang outside for the birds!

I spy baggy! Write letters, words, shapes or notes on a piece of paper and put in a large baggy. Add rice on top of the paper. Let the kids ‘spy’ the letters through the rice.

Snip straws into one inch sections and thread a necklace using shoestring or yarn.

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Hunt for nature. Use colors and shapes as clues.

Go on a scavenger hunt around the yard to explore textures. Can you find something that’s bumpy?

Head to your local appliance store and grab a large box! Fill it with newspapers and add little trinkets and treasures to dive in and find.

Night time fun! Shut off the lights and go on a flashlight scavenger hunt to find pre-hidden objects!

Create a sticky spider web with tape across an open doorway. Throw balled-up newspapers to stick to it!

Have kids walk along straight, curvy and zig zag lines of tape on the floor, or blow pom poms along them.

Go on a spy hunt! Tape diagonally between walls down a hallway, stick pom poms to it randomly. Have the kids crawl through, over and under, to collect the pom poms. Trace favorite toys on butcher paper. Put them away. Search for the toy that matches the outline!

Play balloon badminton. Make ‘racquets’ from paper plates and cardboard tubes and swat a balloon back and forth.

Go on an ‘I Love You’ scavenger hunt. Hide hearts (or just hide one a day) with words of how you love your child all over.

Draw a target on the driveway or sidewalk in chalk. Make, or gather, mud to throw at the target.

Make a homemade kite using a plastic bag and string. Run around the yard ‘flying’ it behind.

Balance boards between chair rails, or on pails, to create an advanced balance beam to walk across.

Make a homemade balance beam using old boards. Then walk along it! Can you do it backwards?

Tape a runway of contact (sticky) paper to the floor, sticky side up. Run across, crawl over, or lay on it!

Set up a very simple obstacle course with cushions (line then up, stack them, make small ramps and tunnels) and have objects to crawl across to find.

Tape a bubble wrap runway to the floor and run along it! Drive trucks across it to hear it pop!

Lay pillows and cushions on the floor in a line. Attempt to walk across them!

Make an activity course to crawl over, under and run through. Use dining room chairs, ABC mat (or books) as stepping stones, and add balloons to move through the course!

Wad newspapers into ‘basketballs’. Aim and shoot them into a basket!

Tape a few different large shapes on the floor (circle, rectangle, square, etc). Sit on opposite ends of the shapes and roll a ball back and forth and shout out what shape the ball crosses or lands on.

Line up plastic bottles to go bowling! Roll a strike!

Tape two lines as the sides of the roads around the house! Create intersections and curves!

Tape lines of tape on the floor equal distances apart and challenge the kids to a jumping game. Measure how far they can jump.

Draw a large maze on the driveway in sidewalk chalk for kids to find their way through.

Make a ‘catch the ball’ toy by cutting the bottom out of a bottle and tying a ball to it. Try to catch the ball in the bottle!

Run and spin with homemade streamers. Tie fabric straps or ribbons to a ring (those ring toys work great).

“Blow” tissue paper into a goal (under a chair works) by fanning paper plates.

Make a ring toss! Cut the centers out of paper plates to make rings. Write the letters of their name on the bottoms of cups to ring the letters of their name.

Draw a large rainbow on butcher paper. Go on a hunt to find toys in the matching colors to place on the corresponding color of the rainbow!

Snap photos of objects around the house (look for shapes) with your iPad or camera. Go on a hunt to find the shapes in the photos!

Play catch with a ball and say the ABCs with each pass back and forth.

Cut various shapes (two or three of each) from paper. Hang just high enough out of reach in a doorway using yarn and tape. Jump and grab the matching shapes.

String one long yarn around a room. Clip the letters of their name onto the string in order from start to finish. Follow the string to find the letters to make your name!

Write letters on sticky notes and place them around the house (under and on top of the dining room table and chairs works great). Name a letter then stomp it! Repeat!

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Make a necklace by threading o-shaped cereal on a string. Tape the string to a surface to secure it for threading. When complete, knot the ends together.

Blend fresh fruits to make homemade edible finger paint. Paint paper with fingers or paintbrushes!

Cut a sponge into a desired shape (such as a heart). Dip into paint and make prints on a piece of paper.

Paint with water! Whether it’s on a chalkboard filled with chalk, or the sidewalk outside. Or even on contruction paper!

Shake your way to beautiful art! Cut paper into desired shapes and lay flat in a box. Add paint blobs around the paper in the box. Add toys to the box, close it up and shake!

Use Q-tips, instead of a paintbrush, to paint a masterpiece.

Make a paper bag mask by cutting two holes around the eyes. Decorate with paper and glue!

Dip balls in paint and roll across pieces of paper.

Float a boat! Stick the straw in the side of a juice box, add a sail with paper. Float it in a tub of water.

Use unusual objects to paint! Make textures with combs, roll on the paint with a rolling pin, and try tape resist!

Paint a piece of paper with the wheels of their favorite cars and trucks.

Paint with cookie cutters! Pour paint into a dish and dip cookie cutters to cover and stamp onto paper.

Dip ribbon in paint and throw it on pieces of paper to create an abstract painting.

Make a collage on clear contact paper using scrap pieces of tissue paper, ribbon, etc. Cover with another piece of contact paper. Cut into shapes and hang in the window.

Make a telescope from a plastic bottle. Cut off the bottom of the bottle. Decorate the sides with markers or colorful tape.

Make beautiful flowers with coffee filters. Paint or dip them in colored water. Let dry. Twist centers to form a flower and wrap a pipe cleaner around the center for a stem.

Make flowers with dried painted paper, cut circles of different sizes and crumple them up. Layer them together to make flowers with a button glued on the center.

Combine art and sensory with contact (sticky) paper taped to the floor, sticky side up. Decorate with small decorative items such as buttons and sequins.

Build and create with craft sticks and glue.

Write a secret note in white crayon! Have kids paint over with colored water. It magically appears!

Rainbow painting! Paint a sponge in rainbow colors for the kids to paint a rainbow with one swipe!

Find a great walking stick and clip off any sprouts. Decorate it with paint to their desire.

Paint and decorate cereal boxes to make buildings. Can you make your town?

Trace child’s body on butcher paper. Color it in to create a self portrait.

Make a nature suncatcher. Cut the centers out of paper plates. Cover with clear contact paper. Fill with found objects from nature.

Make homemade wind chimes! Paint tin cans and punch a hole in the bottoms. Thread nuts and washers on the inside using yarn to hang them.

Draw in an odd spot. Tape butcher paper to cover a table, or the back of a chair, or the floor...

Make window paint using dish soap, corn starch and food coloring. Paint the window with brushes and sponges.

Freeze paint in an ice cube tray. Add a small amount of water to make it go further. Stick craft sticks in while they’re freezing. Take out and paint while they’re melting.

Create paint swatches with two colors of paint (or one color plus black and white).

Splatter paint with a toothbrush! Hold it up vertically for drip painting too.

Mix glue with Epsom Salt and paint an icy scene.

Paint the inside (or outside) of clear glass jars with glue (or Mod Podge) mixed with food coloring. Drip excess off. Bake at low temp to seal.

Mix food coloring with shaving cream. Press paper onto marbled mixture and remove. Scrape off excess shaving cream to leave a marble print!

Cut living and non-living things out of magazines. Glue onto two separate pieces of paper to classify them and make a collage.

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Spread flour on a baking sheet (or tray) to explore with toys or kitchen utensils.

Paint with baby food on paper. Just use fingers to paint and enjoy a snack.

Shake together rice, a few drops of food coloring and scent (optional), a squirt of hand sanitizer and mix to make scented and colored rice!

Make a super simple edible indoor sandbox in a tub with dry oatmeal! Bring out the sandbox toys!

Get rid of all your old lotions. Squeeze them out in a bowl and mix them up with utensils or just your hands.

Play with newspapers. Rip them up. Wad them up. Dip them in water for a squishy sensory.

Fill plastic jars 2/3 with water and some dish soap. Add food coloring and glitter! Seal the lid on with glue and shake, shake, shake!

Make a ‘rattle’ with a bottle. Set out snack items (goldfish, raisins, etc) and a bottle to stick them in and close the lid. Shake!

Spray a gob (or two!) of shaving cream on a tray for sensory play! Make writing marks, or build ‘towers’.

Banging on pots and pans is a favorite! Grab some spatulas and spoons and make music!

Play with play dough and drive trucks in it.

Mix 2 cups flour with 2/3 cup oil to make cloud dough! Play with it like wet sand, mold it any way they like!

Tape sticky contact paper to the floor, sticky side up. Let your toddler run, crawl, or lay on it!

Use a tub of soapy water to wash favorite toys.

Pour dry pasta into a tub to explore with measuring cups and spoons. Include an empty bottle or two to fill and pour between. Shake it to listen to the sounds.

Create a sensory bag with hair gel in a baggy. Add other small objects, such as googly eyes or sequins, if desired. Tape it to the window to explore in the sunlight.

Make sensory foam with dish soap and a little bit of water and food coloring in a food processor. Put on a tray to explore!

Mix up a batch of bubbles in a bucket with dish soap and water! Add kitchen tools to play with!

Attach contact (sticky) paper to a wall with tape, sticky side out. Set out a basket of goodies, including paper, ribbons and even photos, to stick to it!

Blend fruits for a surprise taste test. Look at it, smell it, taste it. What fruit is it?

Make an ocean in a bottle. Fill 2/3 with water. Add food coloring. Fill rest with clear oil and seal the lid on with glue. Create waves!

Spread corn meal onto a baking sheet or other tray to explore with measuring cups and spoons.

Play with ice! Put it in a bowl and pick it up, try to eat them. This is great for a hot day!

Have a water play day! Set out tubs of water with some scoops to transfer water back and forth. Add color to the water if you’d like.

Add food coloring and oil to leftover cooked spaghetti. Put in a tub for little hands to explore. Add kitchen utensils to “cook”.

Combine art and sensory with contact (sticky) paper taped to the floor, sticky side up. Decorate with small decorative items such as buttons and sequins.

I spy baggy! Write letters, words, shapes or notes on a piece of paper and put in a large baggy. Add rice on top of the paper. Let the kids ‘spy’ the letters through the rice.

Write any number on a piece of paper. Trace the number with a paintbrush and glue. Play with sand on the paper and shake it off! It’ll stick to the number to create a texture!

Squirt shaving cream on a baking sheet. Write letters and numbers or make shapes with your fingers.

Make three sensory bags in the primary colors using finger paint in baggies (or clear hair gel with food coloring). Tape them to a window. Explore. Overlap them to mix colors to see what colors you can make.

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Look through photo albums (print or digital) together and name people you know.

Have a camp out, indoors or out!

Head to the library together and everyone check out a new book.

Attend a town festival and play the games!

Play a game of ball as a family, roll it back and forth or toss it gently.

Everyone take a nap together in one big bed.

Plant something together, inside in a pot or outside in the ground.

Run errands together and ask for help whenever you can.

Have lunch on the living room floor as a picnic today.

Be a tourist in your own town, pick a place to visit.

Go to the park for a picnic.

Go on a family scavenger hunt around the neighborhood.

Build a fort and read with flashlights inside it in the dark!

Make homemade pizzas together and grill them.

Make homemade ice cream.

Attend a local school game, baseball, basketball, football.

See a fireworks display!

Bake your favorite dessert or snack together.

Go for a drive and let the kids navigate the way.

Watch a movie together.

Lay out on a blanket and look at the stars.

Learn to fly kites together.

Cuddle up and read books.

Have a campfire cookout!

Play a new-to-you game.

Visit the local fire station.

Try Geocaching as a family.

Go to a local orchard to pick fresh fruits and veggies for dinner.

Go on a family bike ride to the park to play.

Learn about family favorites and play a favorite game.

Go fishing in a nearby river or pond.

Do a family craft or art project. Stack your handprints on top of one another for a keepsake.

Learn what every family member’s favorite color is today.

Go on a field trip to somewhere sentimental to Mom & Dad and tell the kids about it.

Conduct a family interview of each other. Record it with a video camera for a timeless keepsake.

Learn every family member’s favorite meal and make one together.

Create a new family tradition!

Crank up the music and pretend to be an air band!

Play a game of baseball, or basketball, together as a family.

Have a family photo shoot.

Draw your family portrait with sidewalk chalk on the sidewalk or driveway.

Make a day of washing your vehicles by hand.

Play dress up with the kids!

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Activity Plan for Two Year Olds

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Monday: Use tape to make roads and train tracks to create a whole city! Add toys to the city to play in for days.

Tuesday: Roll out a tube of play dough and pound golf tees into it using a toy hammer.

Wednesday: Use Q-tips, instead of a paintbrush, to paint a masterpiece.

Thursday: Make an obstacle course to crawl over, under and run through. Use dining room chairs, ABC mat (or books) as stepping stones, and add balloons to move through the course!

Friday: Have a water play day! Set out tubs of water with some scoops to transfer water back and forth. Add color to the water if you’d like.

Saturday: Stick tape onto a surface. Criss cross over each other. Peel the tape off, one by one.

Sunday: Crank up the music and pretend to be an air band!

painter’s tape toys

play doughtoy hammergolf tees or toothpicks

q-tips paperpaint

tubs or bucketswaterfood coloring (optional)

household objectsabc mat (or paper)balloons (optional)

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Activity Plan for Preschoolers

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Monday: Go on a spy hunt! Tape diagonally between walls down a hallway, stick pom poms to it randomly. Have the kids crawl through, over and under, to col-lect the pom poms.

Tuesday: Write a secret note in white crayon! Have kids paint over with colored water. It magically ap-pears!

Wednesday: Float a boat! Stick the straw in the side of a juice box, add a sail with paper. Float it in a tub of water.

Thursday: Keep kids busy with rubber bands, or hair bands. Slide them on and off a can of food, one at a time.

Friday: Draw a target on the driveway or sidewalk in chalk. Make, or gather, mud to throw at the target.

Saturday: Experiment with milk. Pour whole milk into a shallow dish. Drop in food coloring. Dip a cot-ton swab in dish soap and hold it in the milk. Watch it swirl!

Play a new-to-you game together as a family.

shallow dishwhole milkfood coloringcotton swab (q-tip)dish soap

sidewalk or pavementsidewalk chalkmud or dirt and water

canned foodrubber bands

empty juice boxscissorsscrap paper

paper white crayonfood coloring & water or watercolorspaintbrushes

painter’s tapepom poms or cotton balls

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Weekly Activity Plan: LearningLearning Plan for Preschoolers

Monday: Write letters on sticky notes and place them around the house (under and on top of the dining room table and chairs works great). Name a letter then stomp it! Repeat!

Tuesday: Make a puzzle with the side of a cereal box. Write numbers in a grid, in order, on the back. Cut apart the numbers in various shapes. Count to put the puzzle back together! (Put it together again using the front side.)

Wednesday: Graph blocks. Make several columns on a long sheet of butcher paper. Draw the shape of the blocks you have at the bottom of each column. Sort blocks and ‘stack’ in each column to graph them.

Thursday: Find various pairs of leaves in nature. Tape one of each leaf on the back of a piece of paper. Rub crayons over front side of the paper to show the leaf! Match the remaining leaf to the crayon rubbings.

Friday: Squirt shaving cream on a baking sheet. Write letters and numbers or make shapes with your fingers.

Saturday: Tape their name on the floor. Trace the let-ters using objects and toys from around the house.

Sunday: Learn what every family member’s favorite color is today.

painter’s tapeobjects and toys

baking sheet or trayshaving cream

leaves from naturecrayonswhite papertape

butcher or art papermarker or tapeblocks

cereal boxscissorsmarker

sticky notes markers

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