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Table Time

Activity: Playdough Mat

Materials:

Playdough (red and white)

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to focus on fine motor skills and tactile play.

Growing My Skills

To grow skills, work on ABA patterns to create the cat’s hat!

Floortime Play

Activity: Green Eggs and Ham

Materials:

Construction paper

Stuffed animals

Make green eggs and ham out of construction paper with your child or before you play

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to promote engagement and play with your child. Have the stuffed animal pretend to eat the green eggs and ham. Support your child to imiate play idea.

Growing My Skills

Expand this skill by having pretend money and a pretend Dr. Suess cafe

Support your child in role-playing by pretending to be the worker or customer

Relaxation Time

Activity: Practice Deep Breathing

Materials:

Smelling the flowers

Blowing out the birthday candles Activities To Do At Home

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to help your child with their coping and deep breathing skills. While also practicing following directions and working on their imaginary play skills!

Growing My Skills

Talk about different emotions with your child (happy, sad, angry, etc.) and help them come up with choices to help their body when having those big feelings! (going for a walk, hugging a stuffed animal, drinking water, etc.)

Creative Time

Activity: Make Cat in The Hat

Materials:

Glue

Scissors

Paper plate

Construction paper (red, black, and white,)

Markers (red and black,)

Stapler

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to help your child follow directions and build their creativy and fine motor skills.

Growing My Skills

Dr Seuss Cat In The Hat Instructions

Cut black construction paper into squares or rectangles to glue onto the edge of the paper plate

Cut out white construction paper into shape of a hat

Glue hat onto the top of construction paper

Color hat in stripes (red and white,)

Draw on cats face with marker

Paper plate

Movement Time

Activity: Hop on Pop Hopscotch

Materials:

Tape (painter’s tape or masking tape)

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Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to work on hopping on one and two feet!

Growing My Skills

Use the tap to create hopscotch squares in an open area of your home

You can use a coin, beanbag, ball, etc. with a picture of “Pop” on it. Have your child toss “Pop” into one of the squares, and see if they can make it across without hopping on pop (i.e., without using the square Pop is in)

Read “Hop on Pop” as your child goes across, having them try to hop with each word. Make it even harder by seeing if they can stop and balance wherever they are when they hear the word “Pop”

Mealtime

Activity: Green Eggs and Ham

Materials:

Ingredients to prepare green eggs and ham or a variation depending on dietary preference; green food coloring, oil or butter, salt to taste, cooking materials

Watch YouTube video for full recipe

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to consume or explore similar foods to characters in the Dr. Seuss story.

Growing My Skills

Wash hands and prepare food

1 egg (separated)

Green food coloring

1 serving of ham

Water

Place uncooked ham in a bowl, cover with water, and 3 drops of green food coloring. Let sit for 15 minutes

While ham is sitting, separate eggs – egg yolks in a bowl and egg whites in a bowl.

Add green food coloring to the egg yolk, cover completely

Cook egg whites on the stove with oil and salt, add the green egg yolk to the cooked egg white. Turn.

Take ham out of water mixture, cook in the oven until ready. Serve and enjoy!

Language Time

Activity: One Fish, Two Fish

Enjoy this staple story with your child, reading together, and working on language skills! After “go fishing” for different color fish that you create!

Materials:

“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” By Dr. Seuss

Paper

Crayons or markers

Scissors

Something to use as a fishing pole (such as a ruler, kabob stick, or measuring tape), string, tape

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to work on your child’s receptive language skills such as following directions, identifying color, size, and number, as well as pragmatic language skills for turn-taking.

Expanding Skills

Work on size, color, and number concepts by creating different fish with paper and crafting supplies

Take turns “going fish” with your homemade fishing pole

Utilize langauge to describe the different fish you each catch

Work on turn-taking language skills by taking turns with the single fishing pole

Ask siblings to join! It’s excellent practice to work on turn-taking and pragmatic language skills with other children, even brother or sister!

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