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1

Let your child water flowers outside.
(Science)
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3

Let your child smell different flowers at the grocery store.
(Senses)
4

Recite the rhyme “Mary, Mary Quite Contrary” to your child.
(Rhymes)
5

Let your child flatten paper baking cups to glue on paper for flowers. (Art)
6

Make flower crowns by arranging flower stickers on a paper headband.
(Art)
7

Explore “Open and Closed” with your child— doors, hands, flower buds, etc. (Opposites)
8

Use four craft sticks to make a picture frame for a Mother’s Day present.
(Kindness)
9

Have your child count 3-4 flowers in a vase. (Math)
10

Mother’s Day


11

Place carrot sticks around a mound of cottage cheese for a flower snack.
(Cooking)
12

Cut out pink tissue paper flower shapes for your child to glue onto paper.
(Art)
13

Have your toddler make pink paint by mixing white and red paint. (Science)
14

Have your child paint
with pink paint. Cut when
dry into flower shapes.
(Art)
15

16

Sing about
how “Old Mac Donald had
a pig”.
(Music)
17

Bounce a ball to your child and have him try to catch it. (Coordination)
18

Show your child how to bounce her whole body like a ball.
(Movement)
19

Cut shapes in the plastic lids of three used coffee cans for shape sorters.
(Shapes)
20

Crawl like a caterpillar.
(Movement)
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22

Make 2-4 large brown yarn caterpillars for your child to count.
(Math)
23

Read the story of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. (Literature)
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25

Memorial Day
26

Have your child sit on a towel and
pull her
across the floor.
(Balance)
27

Let your child draw in the bathtub using washable crayons. (Writing)
28

Read stories
to your child with repeated phrases. (Language/ Recall)
29

What can you do with a cardboard tube?
(Imagination)
30

Make a dress-up box with scarves, hats, capes, etc.
(Pretend/Social Skills)