Category: Creativity and Movement

  • Sensory Bottles

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for sight and touch sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Fill 3-4 small plastic bottles with water
    2. Add a few drops of food coloring, dish soap, and glitter to each bottle
    3. Make sure the
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  • Sensory Wall

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for touch sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a combination of soft and textured objects like balloons, fabric, balls of yarn, sand paper, and bubble wrap.
    2. Tape the objects to a wall in
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  • Sponge Painting

    Your Child Will Learn

    Make marks and patterns with a sponge on paper

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Put a few dots of paint on a plate or tray.
    2. Give your child sponges of different shapes and sizes.
    3. Optional: Cut the
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  • Finger Painting

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring creative expression with “paint”

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Make the baby-safe finger paint ahead of time (it needs time to cool). If possible, your baby can watch you make the paint. See below for the
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  • Surprise

    Your Child Will Learn

    Sounds different objects make

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather materials: an opaque cup or box with a lid, small objects that fit inside. When your baby’s not looking, put one object in the container and put
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  • Rhyme Time

    Your Child Will Learn

    An introduction to rhyming words

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Select a nursery rhyme from the attachment linked below, or use one you already know.
    2. As you recite or sing the rhyme, act out the words for
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  • Sounds Around Me

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different kinds of sounds and the objects that make them

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather some objects that make noise (like: rattle, bell, two blocks to bang together, crinkly paper, etc.)
    2. Hold an object out of
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  • Explore A Museum

    Your Child Will Learn

    Museums are spaces where people can learn about the things they see and experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan a trip to a child-friendly museum
    2. While inside the museum, tell your child to point to things
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  • Colors of the Seasons

    Your Child Will Learn

    Certain colors are associated with the different seasons

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Discuss the four seasons according to the regional climate you live in
    2. Ask your child to describe the colors of the sky and land
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  • The Clothes We Wear

    Your Child Will Learn

    Clothing is a creative form of expression

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut up some fabric scraps or old clothes with bright and interesting colors and designs
    2. Ask your child to draw a self-portrait and have them
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