Course 3
Activity 1
Play dough self-portrait
Duration: 5-10 minutes
What do you need?
- Play dough
- Buttons
- Play dough roller or (empty kitchen towel holder can be used)
- Pieces of cut up straw s
What to do:
- Caregiver to assist your child to roll play dough out.
- Next have your child form a head and encourage positioning of facial parts onto it.
- Your child can use buttons for eyes, assist them to make a mouth pressing a piece of straw into the play dough.
- Talk to your child about the various parts as he/she is making a face.
Activity 2
Mathematics
Duration: 5-10 minutes
What you need?
- Fingers
- Small toys (or your child favourite toys)
What to do:
- Count aloud with your child on their finger 1,2,3,4,5
- Put out as many of your child’s favourite toys and ask them to choose 3
- Now count with your child 1,2,3
- Sing the following song to create further awareness of number 1 – 5 as you work with your childhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/WoKJSN-H4NU?wmode=opaque
Children learn things faster if they associate them with something enjoyable. Music is one of the best ways to teach numbers to toddlers, because it’s easy to memorize songs. Sing nursery rhymes related to numbers such as ‘1-2, buckle my shoe’, ‘5 little monkeys jumping on the bed’, and ’This old man’. Hold up your fingers for the number of characters in the rhyme. It’ll give your child an understanding of the concept of less and more.
Activity 3
Physical activity: obstacle course
Duration: 5-10 minutes
What do you need?
- Pillows
- Table
What to do:
- *Caregiver is to set up by packing pillows in a square shape, then pack a trial of pillows under a table
- Demonstrate to your child to walk over pillows starting at one point, and crawl through under the table
- Now let them do by themselves.
- Talk to your child about what they are doing, i.e. walking over and crawling under and through. Try singing to a familiar tune while emphasizing the spatial concepts.