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Homemade Lotto
Cut out pictures of objects from catalogs, magazines, color newspaper
advertisements, or the Internet. Look for animals, toys, faces, and other
things that are familiar and appealing to your child. You will need two exact
copies of each picture.
Make “lotto boards” by dividing strips of poster board into three or four
sections and gluing a different picture in each section. Make several boards.
Each board can have a “theme” such as animals, children’s faces, and toys.
Make “lotto cards” by gluing the duplicate pictures onto smaller pieces of
cardboard.
Encourage your child to match the lotto card to the same picture on the
lotto board.
Scrumptious Shapes
Make sugar cookie dough using your favorite recipe or purchase some prepared
dough from the grocery store.
Break off chunks of the dough and help your child flatten them onto a cookie
sheet.
Use the edge of a plastic cup or a cookie cutter to cut out round shapes. Use
the edge of a small square container or a cookie cutter to make squares. You
can cut a square shape on the diagonal to make triangle shapes too!
Let your child place chocolate chips or raisins around the edges of the cookies
as you talk about their shapes.
Bake and enjoy!
Big and Little
Gather “big” and “little” sets of the same items and put them in a box. For
example, collect a big comb and a doll size comb, an adult size sock and a baby’s
sock, a large cooking spoon and a dessert spoon, and a big block and a small one.
Have your child pull out one item from the box and then see if he can find its big
or little match. For example, “Ramón, you found the big comb, can you find the
little one?” Put the big items in one pile and the little ones in another.
Use the words “big” and “little” as you help your child find the matching items
and sort them.
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