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Explore Together (indoors): Voice Volume
Have children focus on exploring volume and timbre with their voices, and then create patterns of sounds for others to repeat.
Families
Have children find pictures and create families.
Figure It Out
Play games to help toddlers use and strengthen their reasoning skills and to help them put their reasoning into words.
Fish for Letters (down)
Display the down word card and identify the letters in the word. Let children take turns fishing for the letters in down.
“Fish Swish” #2 (PEEP game)
Play the PEEP and the Big Wide World interactive game “Fish Swish” to help Quack figure out how many balloons he needs for his fish friends.
Flashlight Games
Play flashlight games with toddlers to help them build language skills. Spotlight and name an object in the room and then talk about it.
Flower Shop
Help children create a flower or garden shop. Model the roles of a florist and a customer.
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.
Hide and Seek
Play hide-and-seek games with babies to help them learn that things and people exist even when they can’t be seen.
In the Mirror
Give a baby a mirror and join him in the fun. Make silly faces, clap to a tune, point out body parts, or watch as he babbles to his new “friend.”
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 Laugh
Ask family members to share what makes their baby laugh. Make a book of “laughing baby” ideas and share it with families and colleagues.
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.
My Garden
Children act out planting and tending a garden. Encourage them to use props as they plant and care for their garden.