http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com Learning Activities for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school aged children. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Research shows that positive sensory experiences coupled with social interaction contributes to a baby’s cognitive abilities. Lightly blow, touch or kiss a baby’s body part and in a singsong voice tell baby what that body part is. Ex. These are baby’s hands.   You can use the poem below for this activity:   Hello: ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/sensory-game-for-baby/ This is my two year olds favourite fingerplay of the moment. Here is how it goes: 5 little monkeys swinging in a tree (hold up 5 fingers - kids will love it if you have monkey finger puppets!) Teasing Mister Alligator, you can't catch me, you  can't catch me (some people wag ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/5-little-monkeys-swinging-in-a-tree-fingerplay/ I am amazed at how many educational websites will give parents and teachers ideas about teaching preschool children to safely cross the road by themselves!!!! Most children are simply not mature enough to cross the road by themselves before the age of 10, I would say 8 at the very youngest. ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/teaching-young-children-road-safety/ 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 ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/fun-ways-to-count-to-10/                                                          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 ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/the-rhyme-match-game/ Here is a great activity you can do with those plastic easter eggs that you have left over from your egg hunts: Aquire a variety of different coloured eggs and scatter all the halves on the floor or table and have your children match the colours together. For children who have ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/colour-matching-with-plastic-eggs/ Spring is here and this is a wonderful way to spend some quality time outside with your children learning about birds.   String bits of food – such as bread, nuts, or popcorn on a thin string or thread. Space the food several inches apart and tack both ends of the ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/string-feeding-for-the-birds/ The weather is warming up and what better way to let your children show their creativity through colouring than to have them colour on the driveway or sidewalks. Spray your childrens artwork with water from a pump bottle to create a cool water design on the chalk art.  Materials: Coloured chalk ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/water-designs-on-sidewalk-chalk-art/ Teach your children the importance of paying one 10th of their allowance or other money they recieve and have your children decorate a small box that they can use to put coins in for their tithing. This box will be special to them because they made it themselves. *Edit* This is an activity ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/tithing-box/ Blindfold children and feed them different kinds of food then have them guess what is being fed to them. Make sure that you are aware of all the children’s food allergies before doing this activity. The children may even decide they like some of the foods they may have refused to ... http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/guess-the-food/