Table Time Activity: Car Play
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
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to introduce new coping skills your child can use when they feel the 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
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
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
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to consume or explore an edible finger paint while playing with colors.
Growing My Skills
Read Recipe or Dairy-free alternative recipe.
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
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.
Growing My 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).
