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Baby Massages

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Social and Emotional | Age Group: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months
Learning Objective: After bath time, give your baby a massage on her arms and legs while talking in a calm, loving voice and naming parts of her body.

Bean Bag Balance

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Physical Development | Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old
Learning Objective: Toddlers and preschoolers enjoy using physical skills such as walking, running, and crawling to play games. This activity encourages children to combine two skills by balancing a bean bag on different body parts as they move.

Body Part Rhyme

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Social and Emotional | Age Group: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months
Learning Objective: Babies naturally love to hear rhyming chants, and this chant helps babies become familiar with common body parts. Face-to-face play also promotes bonding with a baby’s parent or primary caregiver.

Body Part Rock

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Social and Emotional | Age Group: 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 24-36 months
Learning Objective: Your child will become familiar with her body parts by hearing a rhyme paired with gestures.

Card Slot Drop

Learning Area(s): Physical Development | Age Group: 18-24 months, 24-36 months
Learning Objective: This activity strengthens fine motor skills as the child manipulates plastic cards with his fingers and inserts them into a slot. This activity also encourages hand-eye coordination and dexterity.

Chasing Bubbles

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Physical Development | Age Group: 18-24 months, 24-36 months
Learning Objective: Your child will practice chasing, popping, and blowing bubbles with you while learning vocabulary words to describe these experiences.

Climbing In and Out

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Physical Development | Age Group: 9-12 months, 12-18 months
Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will practice gross motor skills by climbing in and out of boxes, baskets, and tunnels.

Color Cards Match

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Math | Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old
Learning Objective: Toddlers will practice recognizing, naming, and matching colors using colored cards.

Color Hunt

Learning Area(s): Language and Communication; Math | Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old
Learning Objective: This activity encourages children to identify colors as they go on a color hunt to find objects.

Colored Ice

Learning Area(s): Science; Physical Development | Age Group: 18-24 months, 24-36 months
Learning Objective: In this activity, you and your child will explore ice and water and their sensory properties.

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