Activity 1
Creative art constructing a photo frame
Duration: 10 -15 minutes
What do you need?
- 4 ice cream sticks
- Glue
- Pieces of cardboard to fit behind ice cream sticks
- A photo
- Any decorations (glitter, buttons, beads)
What to do:
- Assist your child with building a square with the ice cream sticks.
- Have your child first attempt to build the square shape on his/her own.
- Caregiver then assist child with sticking ice cream sticks together using glue. Place in a sunny area to dry
- Once it has dried, have your child decorate the square with whatever decorative items available at home.
- Caregiver then assists the child to place a photo in the frame
Activity 2
Story: Three little pigs
Duration: 7-10 minutes
What do we need?
- Copy of the above story for child to either listen (from an audio device) to or read along by use of a book/picture
What to do?
- Tell your child the story/have him/her watch and listen to it via a book, pictures or visual-audio device.
- Remember to have your child try and retell the story to you, following the correct sequence of events. Guide where necessary.
- Use the following link to watch and listen to the short story.
Activity 3
Social-emotional development: free hand drawing of my teacher
Duration: 7-10 minutes
What do you need?
- A4 white construction paper
- Crayons/any other writing mediums
What to do:
- Discuss the concept of a teacher and what teachers and how helpful and loving she would be to children in her class.
- Allow your child to share about being kind and loving to others.
- Present your child with a variety of drawing resources and allow them be creative (including: crayons/ kokis-(supervised of course); highlighters – anything fun and novel
- Encourage him/her to add facial features to the drawing i.e. eyes, mouth, nose, ears, hair;etc.
- Allow your child to draw and be creative