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Table Time

Activity: Healthy Food Sort

Materials:

Healthy Food Snack Worksheet

Blue Bird Day and At Home Resources

Skill Check 

This activity focuses on fine motor skills, tasting foods, and recalling information.

Growing My Skills

Gather writing utensils, scissors, and glue

Follow the link to activity and print

Assist the child with cutting out food items

Review healthy and unhealthy foods

Provide the child with one image at a time and identify if the food is a healthy or unhealthy snack

Color pictures if desired

Floortime Play

Activity: Bath Time

Materials:

Baby doll or plastic animals

Water

Soap

Sponge

Blue Bird Day and bath time

Skill Check 

This activity focuses on bath time and hygiene! The goal with this activity is to promote healthy living by staying clean & water play.

Growing My Skills

To expand on skills, label the animals (if you decide to use animals) and bring in pretend play skill by pretending the baby or animals are taking a bath then going to bed.

Relaxation Time

Activity: Belly Buddy Breathing Activity

Materials:

Teddy Bear Belly Breathing Instructions

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to help you child engage and participate in deep breathing exercises to help them learn coping strategies/exercises

Growing My Skills

Gather materials

Ask your child about their senses (where is your nose, mouth, ears, hands/fingers, etc.)

Ask your child if they can smell anything (model sniffing with your nose).

Ask your child if they can hear anything (model touching/listening with your ear, etc.)

This activity can really help your child become in tune with their body!

Asking them questions like; how does your body feel? How do you feel? Is your body moving fast or slow?

Also making statements like feel your belly, close your eyes, listen for your breath, place your hand over your heart are all comments that can help your child feel and connect with taking deep breaths/slowing their body down!

Creative Time

Activity: Calm Down Jars

Materials:

Plastic bottles

Warm water

Glitter

Glue

Food coloring

Blue Bird Day At Home Parent Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to teach your child how to build/create their own calm down choices as coping strategies.

Growing My Skills

Gather materials

Help your child choose which colors they would like for their calm down jar!

Help your child follow the step by step instructions (please see the link included above)

Help your child explore their calm down jar after it is complete!

Movement Time

Activity: Yoga

Materials:

Yoga Mat

Quality Counts Yoga Card Deck PDF Download

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to take all the skills blue birds have learned over the year and combine them into a full game: Ring Around the Rosie, tag, hide-and-seek, and catch!

Growing My Skills

Switch directions during Ring Around the Rosie

Play Tag outdoors running over grass

Try ‘Freeze Tag’ and tell your child to stand as still as a statue!

Blow up a balloon and see how many hits you can keep it in the air. Use your hands, feet, or even your head!

Practice hitting a thrown ball with a bat. If you don’t have a bat, try using a broom or empty wrapping paper tube!

Play baseball outside using mats or rugs for bases

WEST LOOP LOCATION

1233 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60607

WHEATON LOCATION – Now Open!

140 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL 60189

NORTHCENTER LOCATION

1921 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613

CONTACT INFORMATION

(312) 243-8487

info@bbdprogram.com

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