Category: Learning for the Whole Family

  • Belly Breathe

    Your Child Will Learn

    A breathing technique to help calm down before bedtime (or anytime!)

    Here’s What to Do

    1. At the end of your child’s bedtime routine, ask them to take a deep breath while lying down in their bed. 
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  • Our Family Dinner Menu

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use drawings and words to communicate the menu for family dinners

    Here’s What to Do

    1. On a large piece of paper, drawing 5 big circles or squares and label them with the days of the week;
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  • Food Painting 2

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use vegetables and fruits with edible paint to stamp on paper

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a safe surface to do this activity, like the kitchen table or outside on your patio; cover the surface with
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  • Child Friendly Yoga

    Your Child Will Learn

    A way to calm and stretch their bodies 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find an open space with room to move.
    2. Do the Spaghetti Test: wiggle your child’s arms and legs to make sure they’re relaxed, like
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  • Relax My Body

    Your Child Will Learn

    A relaxation technique to prepare for sleep

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to make their toes still, and say “Goodnight toes!”
    2. Continue naming body parts in order: toes, feet, legs and all the way
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  • ABC (Apple, Beet, Carrot) Juice

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to prepare and enjoy a healthy food

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather and wash your ingredients (1 apple, 1 beet, 1 carrot, 1 lime, optional small piece of fresh ginger). 
    2. Peel the beet, carrot, and
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  • Let’s Make a Tortilla!

    Your Child Will Learn

    Trying foods that are important to my family / Trying foods that are important to other cultures

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Pour an entire 2.2 lb. bag of masa harina into a large bowl. Add 2
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  • Explore-a-veggie

    Your Child Will Learn

    That the same food can taste differently depending on how it’s prepared

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to pick a vegetable to explore. 
    2. Choose a few different ways to prepare the veggie. Examples:
      1. Raw
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  • Calm Corner

    Your Child Will Learn

    Strategies to help calm big emotions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. With your child(ren), brainstorm some actions that help them calm down when they’re upset. Some ideas:
      1. Rainbow breath (arms up on the inhale, down on the
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  • Smiley Face Check In

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to express their emotions to an adult

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a time when you can do your Smiley Face Check In at the same time each day (like: breakfast, bath time, story time)
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