

Table Time
Activity: Spring Time Bingo
Materials:
Click here to download Bingo printable
Prep:
For two players: Print 4 copies of Bingo printable. Cut two of them up to make individual pieces and save two for Bingo boards.

Skill Check
Begin by modeling labeling the different images on the Bingo sheet. See if your child will point with you to the different pictures. Offer lots of praise and encouragement for participating!
See if you can encourage your child can match the cut images with the ones on their Bingo board. You can model the activity with your own board and narrate for them what you are doing.
Expanding Skills
If your child is ready to advance their skills, try tossing the squares into a bowl and take turns picking one out to match onto your board.
Take the activity one step further by introducing a winner as the first person to make a straight line. At the end, practice congratulating the winner as well as encouraging or consoling the loser.
Floortime Play

Skill Check
While outside, look for signs of spring like new leaves, weeds, cloves, and even a few blades of grass. Collect your child’s favorites and talk with one another about what you like about the items. For example, how the grass can tickle one another, or how the weed has pretty white flowers on it.
When you get home, encourage your child to help you tape the items to some saran wrap. Encourage your child to try and stick the items on themselves; the challenge will be good for their fine motor and problem solving skills, even if they wind up needing to ask you for help in the end!
Expanding Skills
The finished product can be taped up in a window to be admired throughout the week. Practice remembering with one another the things that you like about the items, where you found them, and other key events from your “spring hunt” together.
To increase the challenge on future walks, try turning the hunt into a more structured activity by giving your child a scavenger hunt list of items to look for!
Relaxation Time
Activity: Mindful Breathing
Book:
Breathe Like a Bear by Kira Willey – Flower Breath (follow along as Dr. Laura Mraz reads this mindfulness meditation here)
Materials:
Skill Check
Creative Time

Skill Check
Expanding Skills
When your rain cloud runs out, see if you child wants to play again! This time, step back a bit and see if your child can remember the different steps to recreating the activity.
Encourage you child to participate with each step of preparing the activity as well; they make take a little longer, but it is a great learning opportunity for them to try!
Movement Time
Activity: Hopping into puddles
Materials:
- Cushions or blankets
- bench
- playground chalk
- The Bunny Song is a great way to encourage participation in this activity. Click here to access Blue Bird Day’s Song Library and sing along with Dr Laura Mraz!

Skill Check
Expanding Skills
Mealtime

Skill Check
Expanding Skills
Practice dumping and pouring items into a sensory bin
Model holding a cup with one hand while pouring with the other
Then explore the different textures in the bin, labeling the experience of touch
Play “house” and pretend to eat your child’s favorite meal
Use play-doh to make “food” and grab toy utensils
Practice cutting and using both hands at the same time
Have your child feed the play-doh to a doll or toy
Language Time

Skill Check
Expanding Skills
Play dress up with different items of clothing (e.g., sun glasses, bathing suit, snow boots, rain coat, scarf)
Ask different questions to determine if it is a spring weather item (e.g., Is this something you wear in the spring? When in the year do you wear these?)
If your child doesn’t want to change clothes, you can hold up the items or play dress up with a doll
You can be silly with this to increase engagement!
Higher level skills such as categorization can be targeted by grouping the clothing items
Target increased expressive language by taking turns describing the clothing