Search Results for: child development activity

Skills this child development activity enhances: Visual Discrimination  Imagination  For ages: Preschool 4 years + Flip It Materials Needed: Quarter Flip It Instructions: Show both sides of a quarter to your child.  Explain the difference between heads and tails, then ask your child to choose one.  Toss the coin in the air and let it […]

Skills this child development activity enhances: Visual Discrimination Imagination For ages: Preschool 4 years + Which Way? Materials Needed: Quarter Which Way? Instructions: The next time you take a walk with your child, bring along a quarter.  Assign an action to heads and tails, for example, heads means "turn left," and trails means "turn right."  […]

Skills this child development activity enhances: Sorting Visual Discrimination Problem Solving For ages: Preschool 3 years + Leaf Tracings Materials Needed: Paper Pencils or Crayons Leaf Tracings Instructions: Create tracings or crayon or pencil rubbings of several different types of leaves, and encourage your child to place the correct leaf over the corresponding tracing. !Monitor […]

Skills this child development activity enhances: Sorting Visual Discrimination Problem Solving For ages: Preschool 3 years + Leaf Match Materials Needed: 2 each of several different leaves Leaf Match Instructions: Lay out several pairs of leaves from different plants, mix them up, and encourage your child to match up the leaf pairs.

Skills this child development activity enhances: Sorting Visual Discrimination Problem Solving For ages: Preschool 3 years + Materials Needed: 10 leaves Bright Light Leaf Comparisons Instructions: Gather about ten leaves with your child.  Sort through them with him/her and look at the different features.  Hold them up to the light and look at the different […]

Skills this child development activity enhances: Creativity Observation Discovery For ages: Preschool 3 years + Materials Needed: White Paper White Crayon Watercolor Paints Crayon Revelation Instructions: Have your child make a drawing using a white crayon on a white piece of paper, encouraging your child to press down hard with the crayon. (You may also […]

This fun child development activity is a great way to enhance your preschooler’s creativity, imagination, and Fine Motor Skills! This is a guest post that I wrote on Cori’s Coupon Corner.  Please check it out and drop me a comment over there letting me know!

Skills this child development activity enhances: Gross Motor Skills Hand-Eye Coordination  For ages: Preschool 4 years + Balloon Materials Needed: Masking Tape or Glue Paint Stirrer or Ruler Balloon Balloon Instructions: Make a little "tennis racket" by using masking tape or glue to attach a paint stirrer (or ruler) to the back of a paper […]

Skills this child development activity enhances: Gross Motor Skills  Hand-Eye Coordination  For ages: Preschool 3 years + Bat the Ball Materials Needed: Knife or Scissors Tennis Ball String Small Button Plastic Bat Bat the Ball Instructions: Using a knife or scissors, make a small slit in a tennis ball. Tie a button to the end […]