My Name is Magical!
Children like to see their names and like to write their names themselves. This activity will seem like magic to your child!
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That’s My Name!
In the early stages of beginning writing, children may make letters incorrectly, but this improves as your child sees his name in print and is offered opportunities to write his name in fun ways. Help your child create a special name sign for his bedroom door with this activity.
Stories to Grow On
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways of communicating about ideas and events. In this activity, you and your child can practice the tradition of storytelling by creating your own characters and experiences.
Fun With Positional Words
The use of positional words is important for your child’s understanding of space and location. This activity gives your child a chance to listen closely to directions and illustrate his understanding of positional words while making a work of art!
Delightful Directions
You’ve gotten used to helping your child by giving him directions to get through a task. Well, in this activity, the tables are turned! Your child will exercise his expressive language skills by guiding you, step by step, through an activity that he knows by heart.
Laughing Letters
Have fun making up and illustrating funny sentences using words that begin with the same letter!
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Whether your photos are in a scrapbook, a photo album or in a digital file, toddlers will enjoy looking at the faces and hearing the stories behind them. Your toddler will enjoy seeing smiling faces and colorful pictures, and her oral language skills will grow as you recall the stories that go with the snapshots.
Let Me Add to That
At this age, most babies say their first words. Expand his one-word responses by stretching it into a sentence. Go a step further by making up a story, rhyme or song that has to do with your baby’s new favorite word!
What’s This? What’s That?
By about 12 to 14 months, your baby will begin to recognize the names of things she sees or experiences each day. Those words become part of her receptive vocabulary. In this activity, you and your baby will explore a room of your home while you name the items, describe them and talk about them.
Turn up the Volume on Learning New Words!
Language can be presented to babies through talking or through singing. Some babies love to hear the same songs over and over again. In this activity, babies can become familiar with new vocabulary while listening to their favorite tunes.
