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Table Time

Activity: Brown Bear Coloring

Materials:

Brown Bear PDF Download

Blue Bird Day and 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

Materials:

Small caterpillar stuffed animal or make one out of paper towel roll

Pretend food

Blue Bird Day and caterpillar book

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

Materials:

Book: Eric Clare: Brown Bear, Brown Bear book or audio

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

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 storytime!

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

Materials:

Glue

Scissors

Brown and black construction paper

Paper plates

Marker

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

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

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

Materials:

Tape

Yarn

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

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

Materials:

Samples of or pictures of the following foods: apples, pears, strawberries, blueberries, oranges, muffins, ice cream, hot dog, pickle, pie, watermelon, lollipop

Take a bite of or view the same foods the hungry caterpillar consumed

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 classic book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, with your child and create your own caterpillar craft!

Materials:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Book or YouTube Video

Paper

Markers

Crayons

Scissors

Glue

Blue Bird Day and kid reading

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to work on your child’s expressive and receptive language skills! Use this time to work on following directions, identifying color and numbers, and describing pictures using different qualitative concepts.

Expanding Skills

Work on following directions by telling your child which colors/items to use to draw/color a caterpillar (use the book for visual support too if needed!)

Work on expressive language skills by describing all the different foods the caterpillar sees and eats

Work on following directions by “feeding” your caterpillar the different foods you create based on the book

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