Category: Creativity and Movement

  • Map Our House

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make a map and visual-spatial skills

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Draw the shape of your home’s perimeter on a piece of paper (if your home has more than one level, pick one floor to
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  • Map My Day

    Your Child Will Learn

    Map making and how to get places they need to go

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk with your child about their schedule for tomorrow. Mention the places they need to go, and in what order.
    2. Help
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  • My Favorite Place

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to explore their environment and learn about a place in their community.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Take your child to a favorite place in your community. Bring snacks and drawing materials.
    2. Give them a tour
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  • World Dance Party

    Your Child Will Learn

    People around the world enjoy special music from their cultures, and dancing to that music is fun!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Using the internet, find music from all around the world. Search songs from your family’s
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  • Heritage Tree Leaf

    Your Child Will Learn

    About their family and their family’s culture and traditions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Talk about your family:
      • People in your family
      • Traditions in your family
      • Language(s) your family speaks
      • Culture(s) your family belongs to
      • Things your
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  • Hand Tracing

    Your Child Will Learn

    The shape of our hands can be used to make creative art

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Use a pencil to trace your child’s hands on paper 
    2. Ask your child what shapes and figures can they create
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  • Dance Together

    Your Child Will Learn

    Moving your body to music is called dancing

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Clear an open space for you and your child to dance together
    2. Play lively music that your child will enjoy 
    3. Perform simple movements and
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  • Make Your Own Sound Shaker

    Your Child Will Learn

    Shaking a hollow object with many small parts inside can make sounds 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Halfway fill 3-4 small clear plastic bottles with different smaller objects like rice, corn kernels, dry beans, dry seeds, nuts,
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  • Natural Mosaic Moods

    Your Child Will Learn

    Mosaic art is an image made of smaller pieces

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Fold a piece of paper into 4 equal parts
    2. Give your child a pencil and ask them to draw a face that represents
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  • Paint to Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    The beats and rhythms heard in music can inspire how we paint

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Play a lively song with lots of instrumentation and percussion
    2. Give your child paper, 2-3 non-toxic paint colors, and paintbrushes
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