Category: At Home

  • 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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  • Super Smoothie

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to prepare and enjoy a healthy snack

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather smoothie ingredients and a blender or food processor. Try to include one ingredient from each category:
      1. Something frozen (frozen fruit, or ice cubes)
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  • Soup Chef

    Your Child Will Learn

    Food groups and cooking skills

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather ingredients for your soup. Try to include one ingredient from each of these categories:
      1. Liquid (water, stock, broth, etc.)
      2. Soup starter aromatics (garlic, onion, ginger, peppers,
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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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  • Robot Directions

    Your Child Will Learn

    Positional words and spatial awareness

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a goal that you will direct your child, “the robot,” to reach.
    2. Give your child a series of directions to help them get to the goal.
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  • Draw your Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to communicate their feelings to an adult

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to close their eyes and notice how their body and mind are feeling.
    2. Invite your child to sit down and draw
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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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  • Rose, Thorn, Bud

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to tell an adult about their emotions

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a time when you can do your Rose, Thorn, Bud reflections at the end of every day (like: commute home from school, dinner
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