Sunday March 29th> Activities

Good Morning my dear Toddlers!

Small Group Activity: Painting with a Tissue roll (Paper Tube)                                                                                Approximate Time: 15 minutes

Materials Needed: ●     Paper tube (from the empty paper towel in the kitchen or a small one from the toilet paper) ●     Paint ●     Paper ●     Markers

Vocabulary: Circles, shapes, print, press, release, observe

How to start the activity: ●     Tell the child that today we are going to print some circles on a paper using a paper tube.

What to do in the middle: ●     Place some paint on a plate. ●     Place the paper and the paper tube next to the child. ●     Invite the child to dip the tube in the paint and observe what happens when he/she print it on the paper. ●     Count how many circles the child made. ●     Encourage the child to make figure with the circles (caterpillar, snowman, wheels for the car, and more” and he/she can draw with the marker around or inside the circles.

Extension: The child can decorate the paper tube and use it as binocular to see objects around the house.

How to finish the activity: ●     Give the child a 5 minutes warning. ●     Tell the child that is time to clean up. Let him/her help you to put the materials away. ●     Display his/her work around the house.

Small Group Activity: Pizza Counting                                            Approximate Time: 15 minutes

Materials Needed: ●     Paper plate ●     Glue ●     Marker ●     Red circles cutouts

Vocabulary: Count, slice, piece, How many?

How to start the activity: ●     Tell the child that today we are going to make a pretend pizza and we are going to put a lot of pepperoni.

What to do in the middle: ●     Bring the paper plate and with the marker make similar size divisions. You can divide it in 4, 6 or 8 ‘slices’ depending on your child’s counting ability. ●     Once you divide it, invite the child with the glue to paste the red circles (In case you don’t have red paper to make circles, you can cut out some circles on fail paper or old magazines). ●     Count together how many pieces of pepperoni the child pasted in each slice.

Extension: ·      You can add different ‘Ingredients’ to the pizza (different color papers or shapes and then counted them while sorting them.

How to finish the activity: ●     Give the child a 5 minutes warning. ●     Invite the child to put the materials away and he or she can keep the pizza display around the house to show it to the rest of the family.