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Table Time

Activity: Shaving Cream Drawing

Materials:

Shaving cream

Smooth surface

Blue Bird Day and shaving cream play

Skill Check 

This activty targets fine motor skills, tacting colors and body parts and exploring tactile play.

Growing My Skills

Smooth out shaving cream

Discuss who is in family

Draw a cirle and add eyes, build on with other body parts and details

Add family members, pets, etc.

Floortime Play

Activity: “Family Finger” Finger Play

Materials:

Coloring Sheet Printable Image

Song Lyrics: Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am How do you do? Mommy finger, mommy finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am How do you do? Brother finger, brother finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am How do you do? Sister finger, sister finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am How do you do? Baby finger, baby finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am How do you do?

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to spend time together and engage in a song together. You can even change the lyrics of the song to anyone/anything they want to increase imagination! Lots of silliness is key while singing songs with your child!

Growing My Skills

First prepare materials (cut out/color faces) and wrap around your fingers or your child’s fingers. If these materials are not available, just use your fingers during the song!

Tape pictures of your own family on each finger to support family member identification and sing the song with your family’s pictures!

Relaxation Time

Activity: Me and My Family Tree

Materials:

Me and My Family Tree Youtube Video

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to spend time together, slow down, and strengthen listening and focusing skills. It also allows children to think about who is in their family and how they are all connected.

Growing My Skills

What does your child like about this story?

Who is in your child’s family?

What do they like to do with their family members?

Creative Time

Activity: Family Tree Craft

Materials:

Photos of family members

Construction paper

Glue

Crayons or markers

Blue Bird Day and painting

Skill Check 

This is an activity to help visualize how family members are related. Starting with the immediate family (siblings, parents, pets) leads to a nice conversation about who your child lives with. Expanding it to include grandparents, cousins, etc allows your child to see that you have parents and how they are connected to more family members. It also supports fine motor control as they can cut, paste, and write.

Growing My Skills

Gather your materials

Print out photos of family members

Tape or glue your child’s photo in the middle of the page

Ask them to find photos of mom, dad, siblings, etc and tape/glue them nearby

Ask them to find photos of specific family members and glue or tape them on the page too

You can write names near the photos

With your child find a place to hang up your family tree so they can look at it regularly

Movement Time

Activity: Playground Games with Family

Materials:

Safe area or room to play in- in case we lose our balance!

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Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to get the whole family to work on movement or playground games!

Growing My Skills

Work on listening to directions, strengthening, spatial awareness, and getting some sensory input during any of the following games

Ring Around the Rosie: switch directions and go fast or slow motion to work on grading of movement and listening to directions

Simon Says: take turns being the “Simon” and work on listening to directions, moving our bodies, and coming up with ideas

Balloon Play: hit it back and forward, watch it fall and use good timing to catch with both hands, or play “keep it up”

Tug of War: use a bedsheet or beach towel and work on holding it tight with two hands to pull the other side

Mealtime

Activity: Making a Family Portrait Out of Food

Materials:

Finger foods you can use for the heads (ex: crackers, banana slices, bread, pancakes)

Small food for eyes/mouth/nose/ears (ex: raisins, chocolate chips, sprinkles, blueberries, grapes)

Stick foods for arms and legs (ex: pretzels, celery sticks, apple slices cut into small sticks)

Optional: use leftovers (ex: pasta, bacon, or bread) for hair!

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to explore new or non preferred foods without the expectation of eating.

Growing My Skills

How to make a family portrait:

Wash hands

Gather materials listed above on an accessible surface

Prepare a face with crackers, pancakes, waffles, or flat piece of food

Use raisins or chocolate chips or blueberries to make the eyes/ears/mouth/nose

Give the face a body, arms, and legs

Optional: use extra ingredients (ex: pasta, bacon, sun butter, or peanut butter) to make hair

Examples: Making Faces From Food or The Best After School Healthy

Language Time

Activity: Family Portraits

Materials:

Housecraft: precut strips, small rectangles, and big triangle out of construction paper; black construction paper; glue

Popsicle Family craft: popsicle sticks in different sizes (cut to make shorter), paper, glue, markers

Family Tree Craft: Big tree drawn/made out of construction paper; blank white circles to draw family members on (markers, crayons); glue

Playdoh family: download & print family playdough mats from Family Playdoh Mats; playdoh
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Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to build vocabulary related to the family. Work on identifying family members in pictures, and then work towards labeling (e.g. brother, sister, aunt, pet dog). Discuss defining characteristics of each family member. For example, “Sara is the oldest sister with red hair, she likes to play soccer”. Use the craft activities below to help facilitate descriptive language.

Expanding Skills

Make a picture of your house, talk about everyone who lives in your house

Popsicle Family craft: Make a portrait of your family using different size popsicle sticks (can cut them), decorate them to look like your family

Family tree craft: draw each member of your family on the tree

Playdoh family: Make portraits of your family out of playdoh, have people guess who it is

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1233 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60607

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140 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL 60189

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1921 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613

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