Table Time Activity: Brown Bear Coloring
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to promote color awareness and coloring skills.
Growing My Skills
Expand on those skills by identifying genders and identifying attributes!
Floortime Play Activity: Hungry Caterpillar
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to just promote engagement with you as a play partner! Support your child with simple 1-step pretend play actions of the caterpillar eating the pretend food.
Growing My Skills
To expand on this skill, use the book and have the caterpillar follow along eating the pretend foods.
Relaxation Time Activity: Eric Clare Bedtime/Naptime story
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child connect the theme(s) of the month, the book, and the craft together! While working on a healthy and relaxing sleep time routine.
Growing My Skills
Work on literacy skills during story time!
Ask your child questions during the book, have them turn the pages, and see if they can make any connections from the day’s crafts/activities they worked on!
Creative Time Activity: Make Brown Bear
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child follow directions and build their creativity and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
Cut out brown construction paper into squares or rectangles to glue onto the back of the paper plate.
Make cut ears out of construction paper and glue onto paper plate.
Draw a face onto a paper plate to create a bear – Toddler Approved Activities.
Movement Time Activity: The Very Busy Spider’s Web
Skill Check
The goal for this week is to climb through the very busy spider’s web without getting caught!
Growing My Skills
Use tape on the floor to create a “Spider Web” and have your child walk across without touching any of the tape.
To make it even harder, you can use yarn to create a spider web in a doorway or along a hallway. Have your child try to climb through the web without touching the yarn!
Mealtime Activity: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to identify the caterpillar that grew after having lots of different foods.
Growing My Skills
Wash hands and prepare foods with a story.
Book or YouTube Video.
Follow along with the story and identify the foods in pictures or on the table.
Feel free to sample each food and watch how the caterpillar grows.
TIP: Show your child a picture of them as a baby if available, show them how they started as a caterpillar too, they are growing every day.
Language Time Activity: Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle
Enjoy this fun, silly, and pragmatic language driven book with your child in order to target expressive and receptive language skills! After, reenact the book, pretending to be dinosaurs, utilizing appropriate pragmatic language to complete activities of daily living (e.g., getting ready for bed, brushing teeth, getting dressed, etc.). Take turns being the dinosaur, and identify whether the language was “thumbs up” and pragmatically appropriate, or “thumbs down” and needs some work.
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to work on your child’s pragmatic language skills while completing activities of daily living, such as use of appropriate requesting, terminating, and commenting.
Growing My Skills
Work on receptive language skills by following 1-2 step directions, based on your child’s language level (e.g., put toothpaste in drawer and then turn off the light).
Expand this pragmatic language skill building and incorporate siblings or other family members.
Challenge your child’s expressive language skills and have them use language to explain why one of the “dinosaurs’” exchanges was not appropriate.