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A Tall Tale

Involve your preschooler in oral storytelling

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Acting out a Favorite Story

Act out your child's favorite story with her. Get creative an use prompts found around the house.

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Alphabet Pretzels

Make delicious pretzels in the shapes of different letters.

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Baby's Own Storytime

Make sure to add story time to your baby's routine.

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Baby’s Own Book

Make your own special book for your baby that introduces new people, objects, or concepts.

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Beginning to Share

This activity helps your preschooler practice sharing with others.

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Box Car Fun

Make your own box car and have your child race around the house.

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Buckle Up Teddy

Encourage good safety habits by having your child practice them.

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Caring for Teddy

Have your child follow simple instructions while playing with a teddy bear.

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Copy Me

When your baby is watching you, encourage her to copy you.

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Create a Story

Create your own story with your child.

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Create Your Own Book

Help your child make her own book about something that interests her.

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Expressing Needs

You can use this activity to encourage your child to build his language skills and help your child l

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Family Meal Time

Use meal times with family to help your child establish and maintain consistent routines.

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Family Rules

Come up with simple rules together that everyone in the family can follow.

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Finger People

Make storytelling come alive by incorporating a finger puppet created with your own fingers

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Flashlight Search

Play a fun game using household items, such as a flashlight.

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Floor Time

Place your baby on a soft blanket, futon, or towel on the floor to give her a chance to look at new

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Fun with Finger Play (2)

Finger plays for you to do with your little one.

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Fun with Finger Play (3)

Finger plays for you to do with your little one.

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Hey Diddle Diddle Storytelling Stones

Create storytelling stones to encourage your child to place the pictures in the correct order to ret

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Investigating the Garbage Truck

Extend your child's interest in trucks using the 4E's

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Kolea (Golden Plover)

Look for the kolea in grassy areas around your neighborhood and do fun activities to learn more abou

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Labeling Emotions

Strategies for establishing a secure, strong, loving relationship with your infant.

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Learning Body Parts

Fun games that help your child learn and identify parts of her body.

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Learning My Home Telephone Number and Address

Start the discussion with your child about how to be safe by introducing this activity about importa

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Learning to Predict

Use household materials to make a game to help your toddler learn to make predictions.

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Let’s Read!

Helpful tips to engage your child in reading.

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Make a Special Story Time Book

Make a special story book for your child based on the "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See" book

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Make Your Own Special Book

Make your own book about a special day or person.

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May I Take Your Order?

Help your child design a take-out menu for a “pretend” restaurant.

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Mealtime Magic

During meals, turn the TV off and redirect your child by engaging him in what “special” food wil

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My Favorite Scent

Your scent and the scent of favorite places are comforting to your baby. When leaving your baby wit

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My Feelings Book

Create a book that helps your child identify different feelings.

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My Turn, Your Turn

Use this game to model words and turn taking

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Paper Dolls

Make your own paper dolls.

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Peek-a-boo Book

Make a peek-a-boo book with your child.

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Picture Gallery

Make a picture gallery with your child to develop language skills.

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Pictures and Mobiles

Place pictures or posters on the wall next to your baby's crib to engage your child.

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Play Time, Work Time

Engage your baby as you do household chores.

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Pull Up

Help your child start to pull himself up to stand.

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Read, Read, Read

Helpful tips to engage your baby in reading.

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Read, Read, Read

Reading aloud to your baby is an important form of stimulation, exposing her to early ways of commun

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Reading to Baby

Allow baby to see other baby's faces by choosing books that feature little ones

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Safety Hunt

Safety hunt around the home to reinforce safe behaviors

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Signs and Advertisements

While on a walk with your child, point out and read aloud road signs and advertisements.

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Story time Questions

Make reading more interactive by asking your child questions about the story.

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Table Talk

Make mealtime a time for learning by including your child mealtime conversations.

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Tape Walk

Show your toddler how to walk on the line, putting one foot in front of the other.

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Tell Me a Story

With your family, share different stories from the past with your child.

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The Reading Puppet

Use this activity to familiarize your child with reading books.

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Up and Down

Encourage your child's movement by playing an up and down game.

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Waiting Hands

Add communication skills when teaching turn taking by adding gestures and words.

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Washing Toys

Use this activity as a time to talk about cleaning while having fun.

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Watching a Toy Go Out of Sight

This interactive activity is a great activity that you can do with your infant to encourage him/her

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Wheels on the Bus Baby Massage

Your child will love this interactive activity

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Where Is the Button?

Play a fun guessing game with your child.

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Which Is Best?

Build your child's problem solving skills by helping him come up with solutions when problems occur.

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Wondering about Birds with the 4E's

Draw on your child's interest by extending her learning

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Writing Letters

Have your child write a letter to someone special.

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