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Garden Shop
Help children set up a garden center shop. Have children take turns role-playing as a gardner, a clerk, and a customer.
Hardware Store
Set up a pretend hardware store with tools and building materials. Talk with children about what tools are needed to build certain things.
Join the Band #1
Invite children to form their own band, like Violet in the book Violet’s Music. Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments.
Join the Band #3
Invite children to sing, dance, and play along with recordings of children’s songs. Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments in their band.
Kitchen
Invite children to pretend cook and bake a favorite recipe or a recipe from the book Chicks and Salsa. Then serve it to friends and teach them how to make the recipe.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/l/)
Play a sound game to help children listen for and recognize the /l/ sound in the beginning of familiar words.
Let the Show Begin!
Encourage small groups of children to put on their own play of a scene from Oscar and the Bat.
Let’s Make Soup
Talk about the soup in The Ugly Vegetable. Have children create a make believe vegetable soup, set a table, and invite friends to taste their “soup.”
Mrs. McNosh Role Play
Invite children to act out the story Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash with silly items children can pretend to wash and hang up to dry.
New Friends
Have children decorate a cardboard box and fill it with things they like to do and things their friends might like to do.
Off to the Library!
Role-play with children taking a trip to the library.
“Paint Splat” #2 (PEEP game)
Invite children to play an interactive game as they mix two colors of paint to make a new color.
“Paint Splat" #3 (PEEP game)
Invite children to play the interactive online game PEEP and the Big Wide World “Paint Splat,” to reinforce their knowledge of color mixing.
Pass Through the Obstacles
Have children set up an obstacle course and construct a game in which players need to find a way to pass the obstacles to get through the course.
Percussion Band
Have children use sticks tap out different rhythms on various surfaces.
Play Family
Children set up a house play area and act out being different members of a family.
Play Together: “ABCD Watermelon” (BTL game)
Play a game matching letters of the alphabet.
Play Together: "Alphabet Hokey Pokey"
Have children review the letters “Oo,” “Ss,” “Nn,” and “Qq” as they sing “Alphabet Hokey Pokey” with you.
Play Together: Bear, Bear, Fish!
Play a game of Duck, Duck Goose, but change the words to Bear, Bear, Fish.
Play Together: Clap Jazz Baby Rhythms
Read aloud a few spreads of Jazz Baby to children, emphasizing the rhythm of the words. Help children notice the rhythm and clap along.