Category: Mess Level

  • Create A Song

    Your Child Will Learn

    Speaking words is different from singing sounds

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Think about all of your baby’s wonderful attributes!
    2. Create a short song of 3-5 lines about your baby, including their name
    3. Add harmonies and rhythms
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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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  • Kitchen Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    Different sounds can be created with kitchen objects

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your baby safe and shatter-proof kitchen objects like light-weight pots, pans, wooden spoons, plastic spoons, plastic spatulas, plastic bowls, and etc. (avoid objects
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  • Fast and Slow Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    Exploring movement and music

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Place your baby on a blanket on the floor. Play some music or sing to your baby.
    2. Hand your baby a scarf, tissue, or handkerchief, and hold one
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  • Let’s Cook Together

    Your Child Will Learn

    Food and cooking vocabulary

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Describe to your baby what you’re going to cook. Talk about each step as you complete it.
    2. Show your baby different ingredients and kitchen tools. Name the items
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  • Talk and Change

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to have a “conversation”

    Here’s What to Do

    1. As you go through the diapering routine, describe each step to your baby as you do them.
    2. Keep eye contact with your baby, asking and answering your
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  • Picture Walk

    Your Child Will Learn

    To look at pictures and words in a book, and that reading is fun!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose a board book to read that has only pictures or just a few words. 
    2. Read the title
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  • Push and Pull

    Your Child Will Learn

    When more or less force is needed to move an object

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather a laundry basket/cardboard box and objects of different weights to put inside (books, cans, water bottles, toys, shoes, etc.).
    2. Ask
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