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Preschool Home Activities for Parents and Young Children
Preschool
Home Activities
for Parents and
Young Children
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Educational activities that
parents and their young children can do
together. Counting, pre-reading, language, science,
and physical skills
are developed as parents play with their preschool
children. Use of
ordinary household items make these activities
easy as well as fun.
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Making Your Home
a Place For Readers
Several tips to help parents of young children
promote literacy at home.
Choose a quiet time for reading to your child,
as in before a nap, bedtime, or after dinner.
Choose a special place for family reading, like
a comfortable chair or pillows piled on the floor.
Let your child select the book for you to read
aloud.
Hold the book so that she or he can see the
pictures. If possible, also let her or him turn the pages.
Take time to look at and talk about the pictures.
Don't
just read the story: talk about it. Let your child point out letters, shapes,
colors, and animals.
Understand that reading begins at home. Children
read their environments, so make your home a print rich environment.
Read! Don't expect reading to be important to
your children if they see that it's not important to you.
Invite your child to read to you. If he
or she is a pre reader, he'll often interpret his own story using illustrations
and his imagination.
Make lists, lots of them. Make them for
grocery shopping, books to buy and things to take on trips.
Read aloud to your child every day.
*adapted from My First Week
of School by Derrick Gantt.
Lots of suggested picture books that parents
can use with their preshool childen to encourage literacy are in
Preschool
Books Listed by Themes
Art and Craft: Personal
Placemats
This early childhood activity by Tricia
V. results in a product that can be used by children everyday.
Materials: Clear contact paper (many, many
uses for this so buy a big roll). Large sheet of art paper about
12 X 14 inches, paint or crayons.
Description: Let your child draw a picture
on both sides of the paper or if you a using sloppy paints use 2 sheets
and secure them back to back with tape. "Laminate" them with the
clear contact paper! They can be used over and over for months or untill
your child decides to make a new one. You can let them make one for holidays
and older children can use Wrapping paper to make Holiday placemats for
everyone at dinner!
No Heat Recipe:
Crunchy Vegetable Burritos
Try these easy to make, healthy
burritos for lunch. Parents or older children can do the shredding and
chopping. Then preschoolers can do the mixing and wrapping.
Serves 4
Ingredients:
½ cup shredded carrots
½ cup chopped broccoli
½ cup chopped
cauliflower
2 green onions, thinly sliced
4 ounces shredded low fat cheddar
cheese
¼ cup nonfat ranch salad
dressing
½ teaspoon chili powder
4 (7 inch) flour tortillas
1 cup torn iceberg lettuce,
bite size pieces
Method:
1. In a mixing bowl,
combine carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and onions with cheese, dressing
and chili powder.
2. Lay tortillas flat
on the counter and spoon about ½ cup vegetable mixture and ¼
cup of lettuce down the the center. Wrap each tortilla around the
vegetable mixture. Enjoy with your children!
Recipe: Create
a "Broccoli Forest"
Instead of a sweet treat, try
serving young children this picture perfect forest. Serves 4
Ingredients:
Dipping Sauce
¼ cup plain nonfat yogurt
¼ cup light sour cream
2 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons spicy brown mustard
Broccoli Trees
2 carrots, peeled
3 cups broccoli florettes
4 cherry tomatoes
3 tablespoons parsley leaves
Method:
1. To prepare dipping
sauce; combine all sauce ingredients in a small bowl (children can
do this). Set bowl aside.
2. The Forest: Parent
or older children do this. Hold carrots against a cutting board
and trim off ends. Cut each carrot in half, crosswise. Then
cut each piece lengthwise, to make 4 pieces.
3. Next, arrange each
plate by putting two carrot pieces side-by-side in the center. Arrange
broccoli florettes around the carrots forming a cluster. Arrange
the tomato at the top of the plate. Now, spoon the dipping sauce
around the base of the carrots and sprinkle with the parsley leaves.
Talk with preschoolers about
the different colors and tastes as they enjoy this vegetable snack!
Vegetable Riddle
What looks like a tree?
Is high in Vitamin C
And is good for you and
me?
Homemade Ice Cream
This activity by April
N. make a good snack while teaching the affects of temperature on liquid.
Ingredients:
ice
salt
milk
measuring spoons and
cup
small ziplock bags
large plastic bags, (shopping
bag fine)
towel
cups
spoons
Procedure: Tell your
child that you and he / she are going to make ice cream. First,
one cup of milk is measured and poured into a small ziplock bag. Two tablespoons
of sugar are added to the milk. The recipe can be doubled in each
ziplock as needed. The bag is zipped up, and put into another ziplock.
The bag is put in to a large
plastic bag, grocery bags work fine. This bag is put into a second
large bag.
Now, ice is added into the
bag, covering the smaller bags containing the milk and sugar mix. Salt
is added to the ice. This makes it colder and keeps it cold. Use a
generous amount of salt. The bag is tied tightly closed. Wrap a
towel around the bag and hold closed. Your child can help to shake the
towel with the bags inside. It must be shaken for about 15 minutes. The
more helpers the better.
As the ice and mixture are
shaken, the ice cream starts to form. The milk and sugar thicken and harden.
It comes out tasting like ice milk and is thick. The bags with the
ice cream are removed once hardened, and the salt must be washed off the
bag right away. The treat can be scooped out and enjoyed.
Comments: It really
works! Make sure the bags are tightly closed because they can open
while being shaken and the salt will get in to the ice cream.
Sing and Move
Sing a few familiar songs together
with your child. As you sing march, clap your hands, or stamp
your feet in time to the music. Then, Take turns saying favorite
nursery rhymes aloud. Agree on one rhyme that both of you can repeat
together. Add some hand and body actions as you say the words.
For nursery rhymes, songs and
finger plays go to the
Preschool
Rainbow Rhyme Collection.
The Calendar
Parents, explain to your preschool child
that days, like people, have names.
Say, "Today's name is (Monday). Tomorrow's
name is (Tuesday)." Show him or her the day's names at the top of
the calendar. Help your youngster understand the passage of time
and how we measure time by the month, day, hour etc.
Circle special days on the calendar and
count how many days until each special day arrives. The special days
can be any day that you and your child will be doing something that your
child likes, for example, a visit to grandparents, trip to the zoo, or
the day he or she will help wash the dog etc.
Holidays
Sit with your preschool child
and explain what the holiday is all about. Look for TV programs
about the holiday that he or she might enjoy and watch with your child.
Parents and teachers can find craft activities for holidays in
Holiday
Art and Craft Activities
and rhymes, songs and fingerplays
are in
Nursery
Rhymes for Special Occasions
Tracing Shapes
Parents cut out a circle, square
and triangle from a large piece of cardboard. Give your preschool
child a large sheet of paper on which to make a picture or design by tracing
the shapes . Encourage your child to color the picture or design.
Write your preschooler's name at the top of his or her picture, spelling
their name letter by letter as you write. Later take your child
to the library. Find some books on shapes, colors or sizes to enjoy
with your child.
The Color
and Shape Theme is in the Rainbow
Resource Room.
Looking for Animals
Parents, gather several old
magazines and ask your youngster to look for and cut out pictures of animals.
Help him or her glue or paste the pictures on a large sheet of paper.
Then ask your preschool child to name as many of the animals as he or
she can. Write each name under (or near) the picture and spell out
the letters as you write. Also, write your child's name at the top
of the paper, spelling as you write.
For more activities about animals
go to the Animal Theme.
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Outdoor Preschool Activities
Outdoor fun
Observation Walk
Take a walk with your child. As you
walk ask your child to look at the different ways people are moving. Examples:
walking, running, biking, driving, etc. Ask your child to tell you
how the people are moving. During your walk, suggest that the two of you
find and name things that grow. Examples:
trees,
flowers, weeds, cats, people, dogs, etc. Ask, "Do rocks, streets,
or cars grow?"
Traffic Light
While out walking with your youngster, see
if he or she can tell you the colors on a traffic light. Talk about
what each color means. Go over important points of safety with him
or her. Talk about how and when to cross the street. Talk about bike
safety.
Outdoor Bug Hunt
Give your preschooler a magnifying
glass and go on a outdoor bug hunt together. Encourage your child to look
at the bugs carefully and tell you what he or she sees.
The Creepy
Crawler Theme is in the Rainbow
Resource Room.
Counting a Silly
Walk
Take a walk with your child.
Make up some silly steps to do together. Examples: Take two large
steps and three tiny steps counting 1,2 - 1,2,3 - 1,2, etc., as you go.
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Activities
I Love You
Tell your child four things
that you love about him/her. Write them on a sheet of paper and
give it to your child to keep.
Sing
Together
Sing some favorite songs together. Use
your arms and hands to show the action of particular words in the song.
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