Activity 1
Creative Art Activity: Footprint flower
Duration – 7 – 10 minutes
What do I need?
- Paint (green and any other colour)
- A4 paper
- Sponge/Paint brush
- A bath with clean water and a towel
What to do:
- *Caregiver is to firstly explain to child that he/she will be creating a footprint flower, using their own foot or both feet.
- Caregiver could either paint your child’s foot or have the child paint it themselves (assisting of course)
- Your child can then proceed to print his/her footprint onto the paper
- After washing and drying the foot, they could choose to do the other foot too.
- Your child will then paint the stem for the foot flower (Parents to assist only if necessary)
- Your child can continue to decorate the flowers in any way he/she desires to. (Optional: When completely dry, have your child draw faces for his/her footprint flowers using a marker.)
- Encourage your child to either write or copy his/her name on the artwork afterwards using a crayon.
Activity 2
Mathematic: Building the basic shapes with stick and drawing it on afterwards
Duration: 15-20 minutes
What do I need?
- Pre-traced basic shapes on cards (Basic shapes- rectangle, triangle, square, diamond, pentagon, hexagon etc.) *Caregiver to prepare beforehand
- A few ice- cream sticks or match sticks or tooth picks
What must I do?
- Hand the pre-traced shape cards/pictures to your child
- Caregiver to discuss the shapes with the child and have him/her name it on their own at first. Assist if necessary.
- Describe the basic properties like the number of sides and corners as well as what the shape resembles while engaging with your child.
- Have your child build the shapes on the card using the available sticks provided.
*Hint: Children use their hands to learn and they remember best when they can engage their bodies in any activity.
Activity 3
Pepper and Soap Experiment
Duration: 15-20 minutes
What do I need?
- Pepper
- Plate/bowl
- Water (optional to color it blue)
- Dish washing liquid soap
What must I do? (Parents to assist)
- Have your child pour some water into a plate or bowl, (ensuring that it covers a fairly large part of the plate
- Color the water by adding a drop of blue food coloring
- Next, have your child sprinkle some pepper onto the surface of the water
- Let your child then dip his/her finger into some dish washing soap and then places it into the center of the plate into the water
- Watch how the pepper quickly scatters to the edges of the water on the plate.
This is a lovely way to demonstrate how soap gets rid of dirt and germs and why it is so important to wash our hands using soap and water.
*Using experiments are a great way of explaining difficult facts to children in fun, visual and concrete ways.