Teach Your Child – Colors
You can teach your child how to learn their colors in a fun and imaginative way. Go to your local paint store or home depot and pick up colorful Disney paint samples with Mickey Mouse heads. Use markers to add letters or numbers or just leave the Disney paint samples as they are.
Teach Your Child Colors
Teach your child to pick out each of the colors by saying the name of the color as they pick up each Disney paint sample. This inexpensive activity has a number of variations: write the name of the color on each Disney paint sample, mount paint samples on a poster board to create a color matching game, write letters on each paint sample to teach your child small words, or adding numbers to teach your child to count.
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Plant Terrarium
The joy of a plant terrarium is an activity where your child can begin to learn about the natural world. A plant terrarium is a container made of glass or other clear material, usually sealed, enclosing a garden of small plants.
As they make a terrarium, your child has an opportunity to learn about photosynthesis: how a plant takes in sunlight and carbon dioxide, produces food for itself and releases oxygen. Once they make a terrarium, water it and seal it up, you can teach your child about the process of condensation that automatically waters their plants.
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plant terrarium
Materials:
� Clean container – fishbowl, glass cookie jar, fish tank
� Small stones
� Horticultural charcoal
� Potting Soil
� Small plants � moss, lichens, spider plants, miniature ferns, African violets, etc.
� Ornamental or decorative elements � rocks, twigs, figurines, etc.
Directions:
1. Add a 1� layer of stones on the bottom of the jar.
2. Add a �� of charcoal.
3. Spoon in a 2 to 3 inch layer of potting soil. Dig small holes for the roots.
4. Take plants from their pots and remove extra soil from the roots. Place plants in the holes and pat soil over the roots. Place taller plants in the back. Dampen the soil. Do not over water.
5. Decorate with rocks, animal figurines or a garden gnome. Seal with plastic wrap or lid. Place in indirect sunlight.
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Big Phone Number
Using the big phone number game to teach your child about numbers and their own phone number. Each big phone number can be made from separate pieces of paper taped to the wall or floor like a telephone keypad, or make each big phone number from colorful felt.
Big Phone Number
Teach your child about numbers by making a beep sound each time they push one, and say the number asking your child to repeat the number. Pretend that the phone is ringing after pushing the correct sequence to teach your child about their own phone number. Older children will like the inexpensive activity of creating the big phone numbers for their siblings. The big phone number keypad can be a cherished activity to pass to future generations.
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