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Floortime Play

Activity: Car play

Materials:

Cars

Construction paper (colors to match the colors of cars you have)

Tape the construction papers around the room on the floor. Play cars with your child and have them drive the car to the correct color “garage.”

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to promote engagement with your child and color awareness. Drive the card around park in the garage and label the colors as you “park.”

Growing My Skills

To expand on this, talk about which cars and “garages” are the same or different.

Relaxation Time

Activity: Relaxation Coloring

Materials:

Colored pencils or crayons

Paper

Relaxing music

  1. Spend time discussing different ways people relax (going for a walk, taking deep breaths, yoga).
  2. Introduce the idea of using art and coloring as a way to relax.
  3. Invite your child to spend time coloring using their favorite colors while listening to soft, calming music.

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to introduce new coping skills your child can use when he/she feels they need to relax.

Growing My Skills

Discuss how different colors make you feel.

Practicing drawing slowly along with the music.

Creative Time

Activity: Color Mixing with Ice

Materials:

Jars/Clear Cups

Ice tray

Food Coloring

Skill Check 

1. Make colored ice cubes (you can give your child directions on how many drops of food coloring to add to the water).

2. Add blue and red ice to one jar and yellow and blue to another.

3. Make predictions on what the combined colors will make!

4. Explore and have fun playing with the ice!

Growing My Skills

Create colorful artwork by taking the dyed ice cubes and pressing them onto a blank piece of paper.

Movement Time

Activity: Colors & Music Game

Materials:

Pieces of different colored paper

Phone or computer to play music

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to dance to our favorite song, listen to the directions when the music stops, then run to the right color!

Growing My Skills

Scatter each piece of paper on the floor around the room.

Put on your favorite song and start dancing.

Intermittently stop the song and shout out a color to which your child will run and stand on.

Make the activity even harder by shouting out 2 or 3 colors for them to step on in the order you stated.

Mealtime

Activity: Pudding finger paints

Materials:

Vanilla pudding mix

Milk

Food coloring

Painting paper

Muffin tin or 6 paper cups

Recipe

Dairy-free alternative recipe

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to consume or explore an edible finger paint while playing with colors.

Growing My Skills

Wash hands!

Prepare pudding mix by combining milk and mix for 2 minutes, spoon 2 T. servings into each muffin tin or cups, mix with 3 drops of food coloring in each compartment.

Prepare the table and child’s clothing with newspapers or smock, prepare painting paper and paint away!

TIP: draw the outline of a tree or animals for the child to paint.

TIP: use a paintbrush if child is not ready for finger painting.

Language Time

Activity: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Enjoy this classic book with your child discussing all of the different descriptive concepts this book has to offer. After, take turns “fishing” in your homemade pond and describe the fish you have caught.

Materials:

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss book or audio

Box or bucket

Paper and markers to create different color and sized fish

Piece of yarn or string

Tape

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to expand your child’s expressive language skills by describing the different size, color, and shape of fish caught in your homemade pond.

Expanding Skills

Work on “I see…..” phrases, by describing the fish you caught.

Challenge these skills by including 2+ qualitative concepts in your description (e.g., “I see a big blue fish”).

Work on pragmatic language skills of turn-taking and sharing by taking turns with the “fishing pole” with yourself, or other siblings.

Work on receptive language skills of following directions by telling each other which specific fish to catch next (e.g., next, catch the small red fish).

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