Activities for At Home: Board Games
Children don’t play board games anymore, but they should be! Playing board games is fun and they help develop important social skills needed in the early years for becoming “ready for school”.
Support Your Child’s Curiosity
Young children are curious and actively explore the world. This curiosity and exploration may look like inappropriate behavior. Plan and prevent problem behaviors using these strategies.
Activities for At Home: Playing Games
Sitting down and playing games with children is a way they learn to take turns, learn rules and spend quality time with you. This time also gives you the opportunity to observe skills that need to be worked on.
Does Your Child Have a Hard Time Cleaning Up His/Her Toys?
Be sure the child understands the clean-up routine and expectations.
Activities for At Home: Create an Indoor Obstacle Course
Obstacle courses are a unique physical activity that encourage problem-solving, creativity, and of course, lots of fun.
Tips to Connect with Your Child
An easy project to do with your child is to make a homemade Emotion Book. All you need is paper, crayons or markers, and a stapler. You can make a book about one emotion and have your child fill the pages with things that make him feel that way.
Activities for At Home: Make the Holidays Memorable
Whether you are celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa, the holidays can be busy and stressful. We all want the holidays to be fun. But we want holidays to mean more to our children than receiving lots of gifts.
Activities for At Home: Cooking Together
Preparing meals is part of the “real work” of family life. Children can help their parents make simple foods. The whole family can benefit when parents involve children in cooking activities.
Tips for Connecting with Your Child
A great way to connect with your child is to spend time interacting with them. This might mean going grocery shopping together, playing a favorite game or toy together, singing to songs in the car together, or going for a walk together.
Activities for At Home: “I Spy” Color Games
Have fun as you play “I Spy” color games. Play the game by spying on different colored objects in your home or outdoors. Your child will try to guess what you spy.
Tips For Helping Your Child Solve Problems At Home
Provide opportunities for your child to practice making decisions, such as choosing between two choices, asking them open-ended questions, giving them simple tasks, being a role model, and identifying different parts of a problem.
Activities for At Home: Develop Routines
Routines for sleep, meals, homework, chores, and play can provide stability for young learners. What might seem like a simple routine to you may be a source of comfort and accomplishment for your child. Having routines at home may also help your child get better at following routines at school.