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Pat-a-Cake, Cut-a-Cake
Add safety scissors and straight wooden stick pegs to your play dough area.
Encourage the children to try to cut play dough with safety scissors. (It is easier
than cutting paper!)
They will also enjoy sticking wooden pegs in the play dough and pretending they
are candles.
Homemade Board Books
Ahead of time, get five pieces of cardboard, glue, a hole punch, and yarn. (Small
cereal boxes are a great source and size.)
Look through old child-friendly magazines with your child.
Point out pictures with simple objects and activities that your child can name
such as trucks, animals, or a child brushing her teeth.
As your child points to pictures of interest, cut them out and lay them aside.
Let your child help you glue the pictures to the cardboard.
Use a hole punch to make three holes along the left edge of each cardboard
page.
Attach all pages with yarn.
Encourage your child to tell you about each page of the “book” you have
created together!
If your child enjoys making books, give her a spiral notebook and several packs
of stickers. She can make her own “sticker book” and work on hand and finger
coordination at the same time!