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CHILD / PARENT ACTIVITY CARDS
Have fun and support your child’s learning in 5
minutes a day. These monthly Child / Parent Activity
cards were initially developed by the Michigan nonprofit Leaps and Bounds. We hope you enjoy using
them. For more fun activities visit:
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Each of these activities were
designed to be a caregiver
and child activity.
Please do not leave your child
unattended with the
materials.
Have fun, but be aware of
what your child is doing with
the materials at all times.
Go for a walk.
Find the biggest tree and the
smallest tree.
Find the biggest building and
the smallest building.
Hold a broom out for your
child to limbo under.
Put a cup between you and
your child.
How low can he go?
Flip pennies into the cup.
Now put the broom between
two chairs.
How many can you get in?
How low can you go?
Take a trip to your
neighborhood library.
Collect empty toilet paper
rolls.
Get a library card for you and
your child.
Decorate them with crayons.
Make a poem with your
child’s name. Use each letter
of her name to start a word
that describes her.
For example:
Lovely
Intelligent
Super
Awesome
Use your phone to help your
child practice your phone
number, or phone numbers of
family members.
Imagine you are in a
spaceship.
Practice counting backwards
to blast off.
What can you see out the
windows?
Where are you going?
What are you taking with
you?
Make a cave out of a blanket.
Look at 2 cars.
Save empty toilet paper rolls.
Pretend to be a family of
bears.
Find 5 things that the cars
have in common.
Use them to measure things
in your house.
Talk about how bears live in a
different type of home than
people do.
Find 5 things different about
the cars.
Write down the
measurements you find.
Use the toilet paper rolls from
yesterday.
Make a treasure hunt for your
child.
On a piece of paper draw
pictures of things she can find
in the house or in the yard.
Use them to stack and build.
For example: the table is 6
rolls tall.
Read it to her.
Guess how many steps it
would take you to walk from
your house to the corner.
Now walk and count them
out.
Were you close?
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practice?
Roll some socks into a ball.
Use your ball to bowl down
the rolls.
Go on a treasure hunt to find
those items.
Fill 6 glasses with different
amounts of water.
Use a spoon to gently tap the
glasses to make sounds.
See if you can play a song.
Draw a picture of a story you
have read.
Tell each other about the
pictures you drew.
Find some leaves.
Read a story with your child.
Put them under a piece of
paper and make leaf rubbings
by rubbing a crayon over the
paper.
Before you read the story,
look at the cover.
How many different kinds of
leaves can you find?
Point out road signs in your
neighborhood.
Talk about what they say.
What letters can your child
see?
What colors are in the signs
and what do they mean?
Watch T.V. with your child.
Every time you see an animal,
make the sound that the
animal makes.
See who can make the sound
first.
Learn the nursery rhyme:
Rub-a-dub-dub, 3 men in a
tub.
And who do you think they
be?
The butcher, the baker and
the candlestick maker.
All set out to sea.
Think of other people that
could be in the tub and make
up a new nursery rhyme.
Get some pots and pans and
spoons.
Play restaurant together.
Spend time talking about
what you think the story is
about based on the cover
picture.
Help your child make up a
menu. You can write the
words; he can draw the
pictures.
Start a weather chart on a
piece of paper.
Sit with your child and take
turns telling each other what
things you like about each
other.
Draw a square for each day.
Have your child look out the
window and tell you what the
weather is like.
First tell your child something
you like about him. Then he
takes a turn to tell you
something he likes about you.
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How many squares can you
find in your house?
Look through the sales
papers.
In what room are the most
squares.
Tear out all of the pictures of
fruits and vegetables.
Practice drawing squares.
Talk about which are your
favorite fruits and vegetables.
Sing:”If your happy and you
know it “
If your happy and you know it,
clap your hands (repeat)
If your happy and you know it,
then your face will surely
show it.
If your happy and you know it
clap your hands.
Add other motions.
Look out the window at night.
Find a star.
Teach your child this poem:
Star light, star bright
First start I see tonight
If I may, if I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Make a wish
Put some ice in the sink.
Find a deck of cards.
Play with it with your child.
Work with your child to make
card houses.
Talk about what happens as
time goes by.
How high can you go?
Why is the ice melting?
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