Allow your toddler to use soap and water to wash the car.
What You Need:
- Sponge
- Bucket
- Baby Shampoo
- Riding toy or pretend cars
What To Do:
- Fill a small bucket with soap and water.
- Encourage your child to wash his car using the sponge. Show him how to use his fingers to squeeze the sponge out and work those fine-motor skills!
- After he is finished washing his car, help him to hold the hose and aim it at the car to wash off the suds.
Safety alert! Young children can drown in just a few inches of water.
Introduce your child to how items change (freezing and melting).
What You Need:
• A small plastic container or cup
• Water
• A paper towel
What To Do:
1. Have your child fill up a small plastic container with water.
2. Tell him you’re going to put it in the freezer.
3. Ask him what he thinks will happen to the water.
4. Show your child the container of water after a half hour. Ask questions such as, “Did it freeze completely yet?”
5. Once the water is completely frozen, let your child touch the ice and describe how it feels.
6. Put the container outside in the sun and describe to your child what happens. For example, “It’s starting to melt!”
7. After the ice has melted, put a paper towel over the water and allow your child to watch the water be absorbed into the towel. Ask him what happened to the water.
Let your toddler become an active explorer and increase her curiosity with this activity.
What You Need:
- What You Need:
- Towel
- Two small buckets or large bowls with water,
- Sponge
- Dish washing soap
- Washable objects or toys such as toy cars, baby dolls.
What To Do:
- Invite your child to wash the objects you put out for her.
- Add soap to one of the bowls.
- Demonstrate how to put the sponge in the soap water and scrub the item, followed by rinsing in the clean water bowl, and then drying the item with the towel.
- Give your child all the time she wants to experience the activity and repeat the motions.
- Use the words “wash, rinse, and dry” when describing what she’s doing. As she engages in this activity, give her encouragement. Say, “You’re working hard at getting the toys clean. I like how you’re scrubbing the top of the car with the sponge to get it really clean.”
Fun cooking activity that teaches children how ingredients transform when you freeze them.
What You Need:
- 1 8-oz. container of your favorite flavor of yogurt
- Small paper cups
- Wooden chopstick
- Carrot sticks
- Plastic wrap
- Favorite fruits like fresh blueberries or bananas, sliced
What To Do:
- Have your child pour/scoop her favorite yogurt into paper cups. Fill the cups about ¾ full. Then, add fruits to the cups.
- Talk to your child about the texture of the yogurt.
- Stretch a small piece of plastic wrap across the top of each cup.
- Using a chopstick, poke a hole in the plastic wrap. Stand a carrot stick straight up in the center of the cup.
- Put the cups in the freezer until the yogurt is frozen solid. When you take the frozen yogurts out, ask her about how the texture changed from when you first put the cups in the freezer.
- Enjoy!
Adapted from: www.kidshealth.org
