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1

Glue yellow tissue paper petals to a brown paper circle to make a sunflower.
(Art)
2

Glue clean coffee grounds in the center of paper sunflower.
(Art)
3

Have your child search for sunflowers at your local grocery store or florist.
(Nature)
4

5

Make juice Popsicles with your child.
(Cooking)
6

Stuff small
zip-lock bags with cotton balls to make simple beanbags.
(Sm. Muscle Dev.)
7

Toss beanbags into a basket.
(Coordination)
8

Tell your
child how special he is
to you.
(Self-Esteem)
9


10

Make a tent outside using chairs and blankets.
(Imagination)
11

Do nature collages by gluing nature items onto cardboard.
(Art)
12

Give your
child a bucket of water and
a large paint brush to “paint” the house.
(Lg. Muscle Dev.)
13

Show your child how to put small cars down a cardboard
tube chute.
(Science)
14

15

Make a pretend steering wheel for your child from a paper plate.
(Imagination)
16

Let your child help you wash plastic toys outside.
(Responsibility)
17

Make up songs with your child’s name in them. (Music/Lang-uage Dev.)
18

Play baseball with a cardboard tube bat and
a crushed paper ball.
(Coordination)
19

20

Count red cars as they pass you while riding
in a bus or
a car.
(Math)
21

Discuss with your child how sometimes her cars go “fast” and sometimes “slow”.
(Opposites)
22

Make garages for your
child’s cars
by using old shoe boxes.
(Imagination)
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25

Sing
“Twinkle, Twinkle,
Little Star”.
(Music)
26

Make your child a star wand by
gluing a cardboard
star to a straw. (Imagination)
27

Have your child count
the points
on a star.
(Math)
28

Sort out a basket of red and blue toys into two piles.
(Color Discrimination)
29

Sort a group
of balls by size, smallest to largest.
(Size)