Ten child-tested activities
by Maddi Walter
Turn off the television and let your children learn to:
- Listen to books read by you or professionals on CDs. Ask them what they remember, then what they liked and didn’t like…..no wrong answers
- Sing along with age-appropriate CDs….Justin Roberts has several that are fun
- Make up stories with you… listen and use their ideas
- Do jigsaw puzzles
- Build forts with beach towels, chairs, old bedding….perhaps have a picnic inside the fort
- Practice standing on one foot while you and they count to fifteen, then on the other foot
- Play hide and seek in the house with you
- Play Simon Says….take turns being Simon
- Color place mats on 8 ½ X11 paper and use them at the next meal
- Dance, silly, ballet, happy
Maddi Walter, children's author and grandmother, lives and writes in Kansas City.
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