Good morning! You have made it to the middle of the week, Wednesday. Here are three invitations for preschoolers today.
Math/contributing activity: Sock matching!
Help your child gather all the stray socks in your house and invite them to match them into pairs with a basket or pile for those without matches (save them for later).
This invitation works on matching, one-to-one correspondence, and gives children a way to contribute to the family.
Art Invitation: Making sock puppets from mismatched socks
Once you have some mismatched socks, or an old or outgrown pair, invite your child to turn them into sock puppets. Markers, fabric paint, glue, embroidery floss, yarn, felt, other fabric and natural materials can be used to turn socks into puppets. What will your child create?
This invitation encourages creativity, invention, and building fine motor skills.
Language/Literacy Invitation: Puppet Theater Story
Your child can use the sock puppets they created, paper bag puppets, or other puppets or stuffed animals to act out a story they have imagined. If you want to extend the activity, you can work with your child to turn a larger cardboard box into a puppet theater. Your child might also appreciate having someone write down their story and read it back while they act it out with the puppets.
In this invitation, children are working with language and literacy skills and concepts, and building their creative expression skills.
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