Table Time Activity: Rice Writing
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is literacy awareness and tactile exploration.
Growing My Skills
To grow skills, work on writing out the letters in the rice.
Floortime Play Activity: Heart Scavenger Hunt
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is engagement, matching, and color awareness.
Growing My Skills
Upgrade: Have your child find a certain letter hiding around the room.
Relaxation Time Activity: Friendship/Partner Yoga!
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child focus on engagement, following directions, and building core strength.
Growing My Skills
Talk about how each yoga pose makes your body feel. Try adding in mediation in small time increments – see if you can get up to 1 or 2 minutes!
Creative Time Activity: Make Valentines Cards for Friends and Family
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to help your child follow directions and build their creative and fine motor skills.
Growing My Skills
1) Cut construction paper out into heart shape.
2) Write out happy valentines day to: and from:.
3) Decorate heart.
Movement Time Activity: Partner Yoga
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to focus on working together and supporting each other while building strength!
Growing My Skills
Follow along with the video, or look up “partner yoga poses for kids” on google images for more ideas!
Help your child assume each pose with a sibling, friend, or yourself!
Mealtime Activity: “Food friends” or Food Pairing
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to encourage taste exploration and find foods that go well together.
Growing My Skills
Wash hands and find 1 – 2 tablespoon sized samples of 5 – 6 foods. Put them on the table for exploration.
Have your child sample foods together or separately and ask which foods could be “friends. Which could be yummy together?” For example: 1) Apples and peanut butter 2) Bananas and peanut butter 3) Tortillas and cheese 4) Crackers and cheese 5) egg and cheese.
TIP: Mix and match the foods in front of you. Suggest a pair that definitely would not go well together.
Language Time Activity: Rainbow Fish
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to practice and improve your child’s pragmatic language skills including sharing, turn taking, and requesting.
Growing My Skills
Work on utilizing appropriate pragmatic language skills to request the stickers from the rainbow fish.
Expand descriptive expressive language by describing the specific sticker wanted by color, size, shape, etc.
Expand this play to include other family members.
Work on prepositional concepts by describing where to put the sticker (e.g., put the blue sticker on top of my hand).