Superhero Scavenger Hunt
Materials: Verbal or visual list of items (sock, spoon, shoe, etc), small bag or basket
Activity: Create a scavenger hunt for “S” items found around the house (ex spoon, sock, soap, shoe). Give your child a verbal or visual list of the items and then ask them to find the corresponding objects. At the end, they can count how many items they found. Put on a cape (or use a blanket) to make it even more fun!
Shadow Play
Materials: Flashlight, various objects (shapes, toys, paper, etc)
Activity: Use a flashlight in a dark room to explore shadows. Let your child experiment with how objects like toys, shapes, and their own hands make different shadow shapes. Talk about the letter S for Shadow and explore how they change.
Snowman Name Game
Is it too cold to play outside? Build a snowman in the house while helping your child spell their name. Using paper plates, the first paper plate will be the snowman’s head. The children can be creative in finding small items around the house to make his eyes, nose and smile.
Next, make the snowman’s body using the paper plates. Write each letter of your child’s first name on a separate “snowball” paper plate, using a capital for the first letter and lower case letters for the remaining letters.
Now, the fun begins as children can “rebuild” their snowman and stack the snowballs over and over, learning the sequence of the letters in their name. If they place the letters in the incorrect sequence, try to pronounce the “name” and see if they can correct it. You my be surprised how long they play the Snowman Name Game.
Snowman All Year Round
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