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Here are more activities that you can do with your child. Most of the activities use materials within your home. You can be creative to use what materials are around your home to recreate these ideas.
Rubber Bands
Use an empty container and have your child put the rubber bands around the container
Pipe Cleaners
Use a colander or a strainer of some sort with big enough holes to fit pipe cleaners through and let your child poke the pipe cleaners through the holes.
Straws
If you have straws. Your child can practice cutting, by cutting them into little pieces. The pieces can be used in Play Dough, building with blocks, or putting into a container
Play Dough
Add toys, kitchen utensils, hide pennies for them to find and then count how many. Don't have Play Dough recipe at bottom of the page.
Plastic Cups
Leftover plastic cups? Hand a stack to your child and watch them create.
Also can create art with plastic cups
Measuring
Trace your child's foot, use a ruler, measuring tape, have your child go on a hunt around your house to find objects that are the same length, longer, shorter then their foot.
Recycled Tubes.
Use paper towel and toilet paper tubes and tape them up on a wall. Give your child a small ball or pom pom and have them try to get it into a cup.
Patterns
You can create patterns with any materials that you have handy in your house. (use crayons/markers, shapes, coins, beads, buttons, blocks, socks(mom, dad, child), painted rocks, painted sticks, candies, snacks, books) When creating patterns with your begin with the AB pattern (Blue, Red, Blue, Red, Blue, Red). Explain that there is are two colors that are repeating.
Sorting Activities
Give your child a collection of objects- coins, beads, buttons, blocks, socks(mom, dad, child), rocks, sticks, candies, snacks, books, anything that you have many of. Have your child sort the collection by color, size or shape.
Puzzles
Puzzles are a nice calming activity to do with your child. If you don't have any puzzles you can make one! Draw a picture, color a picture or color an sheet of paper and cut it into pieces, then piece it back together.
Mixing Colors
Use an ice cube tray, plastic egg carton, clear cups. Fill them with water and food coloring, use the eye dropper to transfer the colored water into clear water to mix the colors.
Water Color Art
Use colored water and eye dropper to paint paper towels, coffee filter, tee-shirt
Paint on an extra piece of wood, sticks, rocks
Finger Painting!
Mess and Sensory Fun
Spatter Painting
Take a paint brush with paint and throw the paint at the paper
Spray Painting
Fill a spray bottle with water and add food color, spray the snow (since we have some)
Fill bottle with water downed paint and spray paper or wood
Frozen Creatures
Fill a balloon with water, stick a dinosaur or other figure inside, let it freeze. Once frozen have your child use a tool (you pick what you feel is safe) have them break it apart to find out what was inside.
Fairy Houses
Explore in your back yard, collecting materials to create fairy houses! This is a fun way to use our imagination!
Linking Paper Clips
Give a handful of paper clips, see how long a chain your child can make!
Screwing Screws
Extra wood and screws laying around. Pre-drill some holes and let your child screw some screws into the wood.
Nuts and Bolts
Have extra nuts and bolts. Let your child put the nuts and bolts together.
Playdough ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup salt
4 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 cups lukewarm water
2 Tablespoons of vegetable oil (coconut oil works too)
Food coloring, optional
Quart sized bags
Stir together the flour, salt and cream of tartar in a large pot. Next add the water and oil. If you’re only making one color, add in the the color now as well. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly. Continue stirring until the dough has thickened and begins to form into a ball. Remove from heat and then place inside a gallon sized bag or onto wax paper. Allow to cool slightly and then knead until smooth. If you’re adding colors after, divide the dough into balls (for how many colors you want) and then add the dough into the quart sized bags. Start with about 5 drops of color and add more to brighten it. Knead the dough, while inside the bag so it doesn’t stain your hands. Once it’s all mixed together you’re ready to PLAY. https://www.iheartnaptime.net/play-dough-recipe/)
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