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Our Families
Family & Friends
You will need a small inexpensive photo album and some narrow strips of paper
for labels.
Let your child help put photographs of family members and friends doing different
activities into the album.
Ask your child to name the people and describe what they are doing.
Label each photo with the person’s name, where he is, and what he is doing. (For
example, write “Uncle Bob—picnic.”)
Periodically add photos and be sure your child is in some of them.
Your child can look through the album, practice turning pages, and pretend to
“read” the labels. In future years, she will enjoy looking back at these memories.
When I Was Two
Purchase an inexpensive scrapbook or tablet at a dollar store. You can also make
one with construction paper. Staple the pages together and cover the staples
with tape.
Make a scrapbook of pictures and items that represent things your two year old
enjoys. For example, if your child is fascinated by tractors find a picture of one
for the scrapbook. If your two year old loves a particular storybook character,
put something in the scrapbook that represents it.
When you go places, collect “treasures” for the scrapbook. A brochure from
the zoo, a napkin from a favorite restaurant, a party hat from a special party he
attended.
Make the scrapbook a real life reflection of your child as a two year old. Make it
a “story in progress” that you and your child work on together.
Your child will enjoy looking through his “When I Was Two . . .” book over and
over. And he will also amuse himself in years to come when he looks at it again!
Local Logos
Collect items with a logo of a familiar business or product such as a drinking cup
or food wrapper from a restaurant, a paint stirrer from a home improvement
store, a sales tag from an item at a retail store, or a box from your child’s favorite
cereal.
Show the items one at a time to your child and see if he can tell where the item
came from. Point to the logo as you and your child “read” what it says. Talk
about the item and where it came from.
Put the items in a box for your child to take out and “read” to other members
of the family.
A variation of this activity is to ask your child to “read” signs and logos as you
ride in a car or bus.
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