Category: Creativity
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Music All Around Us
Your Child Will Learn
How to recognize music in the world around us
Here’s What to Do
- Begin in a relatively quiet environment indoors or outside.
- Walk around and notice the sounds that you hear (birds chirping, horns honking, faucet
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Fast and Slow Music
Your Child Will Learn
That music has different speeds (tempos)
Here’s What to Do
- Play some music, perhaps while in the car. Hand your child a tissue and tell them to wave the tissue to the speed of the music.
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Dramatic Play
Your Child Will Learn
How to express themselves and apply learning through play
Here’s What to Do
- Invite your child(ren) to play pretend with you. Decide what you’d like to play together. Some ideas:
- Use your kitchen table to play
- Invite your child(ren) to play pretend with you. Decide what you’d like to play together. Some ideas:
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Food Painting 1
Your Child Will Learn
Use edible paint on fingers and feet to make marks on paper
Here’s What to Do
- Find a safe surface to do this activity, like the kitchen table or outside on your patio; cover the surface
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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
- 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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Make-Your-Own Concentration Game
Your Child Will Learn
Use working memory to match images that are the same
Here’s What to Do
- Ask your child to create multiple sets of 2 drawings that are the same image on small squares of paper (we suggest
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Paint Play
Your Child Will Learn
To explore a sensory art experience
Here’s What to Do
- Pour small amounts of paint into clear plastic bags that can be sealed; make sure the bags don’t have holes
- Release the air out of the