Table Time
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to receptively or expressively identify pictures from the Bingo card, match identical pictures, scanning skills, and turn-taking!
Growing My Skills
When choosing an item on the Bingo card, ask a more complex question that involves discrimination by feature, function, and classes. For example: Find the one that has long teeth? Which one with wings? Which one is brown?
Floortime Play
Activity: Animal Play
Materials:
Print out pictures of arctic animals and tape them on small boxes or wooden blocks
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to promote animal awareness and creativity with the boxes/blocks! Your child can just build with the boxes/blocks and create a variety of animal structures!
Growing My Skills
Expand by labeling the animals, adding novel animals or engaging in pretend play with the animals.
Relaxation Time
Activity: Have a Family Movie Night and Watch Planet Earth: Frozen Planet
Materials:
A comfy couch and Planet Earth: Frozen Planet. (Can be seen on Amazon Prime or YouTube).
Skill Check
The goal of this activity to learn about arctic animals while spending time with one another.
Growing My Skills
Pop some popcorn and gather on the couch to watch this educational artic movie!
Creative Time
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to practice fine motor skills and learn about shapes.
Growing My Skills
Cut out shapes
Match shapes to their corresponding arctic animal
Try to find items around your house that match the shape!
Movement Time
Activity: Arctic Animal Walks/Yoga
Materials:
Ideas for different animal walks: Act Like An Animal, 13 Moves To Help Your Child’s Gross Motor Development
Ideas for Animal Yoga:
Sitting like a Seal = prone extension
Husky Pose (Down Dog): Place your hands and feet on the floor, make an upside-down V with your body
Moose Pose (Tree Pose): Stand tall on both feet and reach your arms high!
Walrus (Cobra): Lay on your stomach with your legs flat, push your arms along under your shoulders
Snow Goose Pose (Dancers Pose): Stand on your right leg, bend your right knee, and hold your right foot with your right hand (also try the other side!)
*Snowy Owl (Airplane): Stand tall on both legs, spread your arms out wide
Optional Materials :
Painter’s tape
Animal toys
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to work on motor planning and coordination to move your body like different arctic animals!
Growing My Skills
Reference visual for animal walk directions
If your child is having a difficult time imitating a picture, they may benefit from watching you do it first
Have fast races or see “who can go the slowest” to really work on motor discrimination and motor planning
Create a pathway by placing painter’s tape on the ground and have them do each animal while following the pathway
Make it even harder for your child by incorporating obstacles to walk over, such as making a “snowy mountain” with pillows
Be silly and creative – making up walks for all your favorite animals
If your child has animal toys, you can put them all in a box, have them reach in to randomly choose an animal, and have them walk like that animal
Mealtime
Activity: Penguin Fishing Jello Craft
Materials:
1 packet of blue jello
1 serving of Swedish fish
Penguin cut out pictures or stickers
Tooth picks
String (optional)
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to consume “fish” like a penguin in the arctic!
Tip: include varying candy, berries or vegetables in the “lake”
Growing My Skills
Wash hands, prepare mixing bowls, whisk, and plastic wrap
Prepare blue jello mix, place Swedish fish and other foods into the blue jello, (Optional: place a rope tip on top of the fruit so it lays off the side of the cup)
Refrigerate for 8 hours and serve
Prepare penguin cut-outs, with toothpicks
Attach toothpicks to the penguin
Take the jello cup out, attach the rope from the jello cup to the toothpick
Make it look like they are “fishing” for the Swedish fish in the lake.
See example on Pinterest
Language Time
Activity: Make a Polar Bear Craft – Work Together To Make a Fuzzy Polar Craft!
Materials:
Polar bear template
Glue
Cotton balls
Polar Bear Coloring Page
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to work on your child’s expressive language and problem-solving skills! Use this time to work on requesting items or problem solving what items are needed if you keep some materials hidden.
Expanding Skills
Work on asking for turns or requesting craft items to make a fuzzy polar bear
Expand your child’s vocabulary by talking about how the polar bear feels (i.e., soft, fluffy, fuzzy), looks (i.e., big, white), etc.
Work on problem-solving skills by withholding craft items (i.e., glue) and have your child problem-solve what they are missing!
