Category: Some mess

  • Book Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    Retell a story from a favorite book through dramatic performance

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to select a book that they enjoy reading.  Read the book together and discuss the characters and settings, and
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  • Redesign A Book Cover

    Your Child Will Learn

    Art and pictures on book covers give a preview of the story and gains the interest of readers

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Have your child select a book to read and ask them to describe what
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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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  • 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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  • Happiness Boost Cards

    Your Child Will Learn

    A way to add a little more joy into their daily routine

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Together with your child, brainstorm some very short activities that make them happy. Some examples:
      • Give a hug
      • Smile big
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  • Signs of Affirmation

    Your Child Will Learn

    A positive way to start or end their day

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Together with your child, brainstorm an affirmation to repeat each day. An affirmation is a short, positive phrase. Examples:
      • I have a big
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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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  • 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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  • Eat the Rainbow

    Your Child Will Learn

    Food vocabulary, colors, and where different foods come from

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Draw a rainbow (include red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple stripes). 
    2. Challenge your child to find a food in your kitchen that
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