Category: Mess Level

  • Making Friends

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make a friend

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Choose two stuffed animals (or dolls or action figures).
    2. Use the animals to play pretend, with your child being the voice for one animal and you being
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  • 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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  • Let’s Go to the Library

    Your Child Will Learn

    That they can find some favorite books at the library and take them home!

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Go to your local library and find the infant and toddler part of the children’s section. Many libraries
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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 1

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use edible paint on fingers and feet to make marks 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
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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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  • Texture Tales

    Your Child Will Learn

    To look at and interact with books.

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Find a board book with different textures your child can touch. (Or, tell a story out loud and have your child touch the textures of
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  • Homemade Books

    Your Child Will Learn

    Independently explore a homemade book with different texture

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather safe and child-friendly materials with different textures to create a homemade book for your child (examples: corrugated cardboard, bubble wrap, fabric, recycled plastic,
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  • Food Letter Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    Identify letters and sounds using edible alphabet letters 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Purchase edible alphabet letters from your local grocery store. For example: alphabet cereal, crackers, cookies, or pasta (cook the alphabet pasta first). (Note: if
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  • Label Your Home

    Your Child Will Learn

    To identify letters and their sounds

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Before you begin, use post-it notes or small sheets of paper to write labels for 10 objects in your home. Make sure some of the names
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