Your child will love this interactive activity
What You Need:
- Baby oil or lotion (*optional)
What To Do:
- When baby is alert, place him on his back on a blanket.
- Warm up your hands by gently rubbing them together with baby oil or lotion (*optional).
- Sing “The Wheels On The Bus” while gently massaging baby:
The wheels on the bus go round and round.
Round and round. Round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round. All through the town
(gently move his legs in a circle, as if riding a bicycle).
- Continue singing about: the wipers on the bus go swish swish swish (gently move his arms back and forth); the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep (gently tap the bottom of baby’s feet); and the people on the bus go up and down (stroke baby’s arms from shoulder to wrist)
During meals, turn the TV off and redirect your child by engaging him in what “special” food will be revealed.
What You Need:
What To Do:
- Before setting the table, choose one dish (e.g. sliced apples) to be the “special” food to be revealed.
- Hide the apples using the towel or paper bag and place it on the table.
- Say, “It’s time for lunch! I wonder what the hidden food is today. Can you guess? No peeking!”
- Encourage him to think of different foods by giving him hints. “It’s something that is red on the outside, sweet, and grows on trees. When we eat it, it goes “crunch!”
- After lunch, show him images of apple trees and pretend to pick the apples by stretching and jumping.
Add a technology component to your child's play dough creation
What You Need:
- Playdough
- Smartphone or Tablet
What To Do:
- Use your favorite store bought or homemade playdough recipe.
- Invite your child to create a creature using the playdough. If he needs support, show him how to pinch and mold the dough to create arms, legs, hair, and even facial features.
- Ask your child questions such as, “Does your creature have a name? What kinds of sounds does he make?”
- Download the Play-Doh TOUCH
- Help your child to scan the playdough creature in the Shape to Life Studio and watch it come to life in the virtual world!
Incorporate cultural practices while making a delicious meal
What You Need:
- Pork butt, 3 lbs
- Hawaiian (or sea) salt, 3-T
- Water, ½ gal.
- Ti leaves (rinse and remove core)
- *½ tsp Liquid Smoke (optional)
What To Do:
- Have keiki help pour water into medium roasting pan.
- Rub Hawaiian (or sea) salt on pork.
- Help keiki wrap pork with ti leaves and place it in the roasting pan. Talk about the cultural practice of cooking Kalua Pig in an “Imu” (underground oven).
- Cover roasting pan with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 2-3 hours, or until meat is soft.
- As it is cooking, show keiki how the traditional imu is built with pictures or videos such as https://vimeo.com/141860403
- Remove foil and ti leaves, debone and shred pork.
- Add liquid smoke and more Hawaiian salt to taste.
Adapted from: https://www.polynesia.com/recipes/main-dishes/kalua-puaa
