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
- Spend time discussing different ways people relax (going for a walk, taking deep breaths, yoga).
- Introduce the idea of using art and coloring as a way to relax.
- 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
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
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).
