First of all you need several different objects. Start off with three objects and as the game becomes too easy for your preschooler keep increasing the number of items.
When you have all of the objects placed infront of your child tell him what the objects name is and encourage him to name the object as well. Talking [...]
I have to give my two year old credit for coming up with this game. I caught her making up this little game to teach her one year old sister to count – How cute!!!
Hold up one finger, have your child hold up one finger, touch fingers and say ‘one’.
Hold up two fingers, have child hold up two fingers, touch fingers [...]
My two year old daughter loves to count to 10 but sometimes along the way she gets all the numbers mixed up. So we make up some fun ways to count to 10 together such as clap our hands 10 times, spin around in circles 10 times, hop 10 times etc…
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Obtain a variety of pictures from magazines or look online for clipart that can be matched to form rhyming pairs. For example, pictures of a ‘mouse’ and a ‘house’.
Tape or glue the pictures to squares of cardstock and use the cards to play a memory type game. For younger children have the pictures faced [...]