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Personal relationships
with children
Tub Time
Give your child and her playmate a tub or dishpan.
Activities and Strategies
for Development
Put a small amount of water in each tub and put them on a low table in the
kitchen or outdoors. Put towels under the dishpans to catch the water.
Help the children take turns using props such as wire whisks, sieves, slotted
spoons, squeeze bottles, ladles, scoops, hand cranked egg beaters, muffin tins,
and boats (for health purposes, don’t use sponges).
Add a small amount of dishwashing soap for bubbles if you like.
Be prepared for the children to get wet, so roll up their sleeves and have an
extra shirt ready!
Cookie Painting
Get some slice-and-bake sugar cookie dough (or make your own), milk, food
coloring, and cotton swabs.
Slice the cookies and let your child and his playmate help arrange them on the
cookie sheet.
Put a few drops of food coloring into a small amount of milk.
Give each child a cotton swab and let them “paint” the cookie dough with the
food coloring mixture.
Follow the directions on the package for baking. Let the children enjoy eating a
few of the cookies they made together!