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February’s Activity Plansfor Toddlers & Preschoolers

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R O O M . H A N D S O N A S W E G R O W . C O M

this month’s theme:

I Love You Scavenger

Hunt

HeartGarland Have a hot choco-

late party!Re-commit! Write out

your goal and why you want to do it.

LoveBanner

Bang on Pots & Pans Go on a hike!

Gear up!Find an accountability partner. Commit your goal to them to hold

yourself accountable.

H is for Heart

Play Dough Name

Tracing

Counting with Dice

Drawing Under the

Table

Have a movie marathon today!

Carve out time in your day (or week) to do some-thing towards your goal.

Frisbee Toss

Textured Yarn Heart

BlockPatterns

Rainbow Sponge

Painting

Make today a ‘good deed’ day!

Check in with yourself and your accountability partner. What did you

achieve?

Rainbow Toy Hunt

Living & Non-Living

Collage

Paper Bag Mask

Tupper-ware Match

Tackle a child’s room this weekend to go through, purge and

organize!

Rainbow Hunt

Loose Parts Patterns

Stick to Your Resolution

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Textured Tape Resist

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Read your favor-ite Dr. Seuss book for his Birthday

on the 2nd.

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Other:small objectsloose parts (buttons, gems, rocks)magazinestoysLego or other blocksplay doughdice

Full Supply List

In each week of activities, there’s a supply list. You can quickly scan the list to see what you need for the week. Most items are supplies from the home (office, kitchen, kids toys, etc).

Below is a list of supplies to do every activity in the month of February.

Craft Items:white paper pink paperpaper paper in rainbow colorscolored paper scrapsbutcher papercard stockred or pink cardstockthin cardboard (from cereal box)paintwhite paintpaint (rainbow colors)paintbrushschool gluetapescissorshole punchmarkercolored pencils or crayonspenpencilbeads / sequins / buttons / googly eyes

Kitchen Items:water variety of tools, rolling pin, fork, etckitchen utensilspots & pansmuffin tin or egg cartonlarge kitchen spongeplastic lids tupperware w/matching lids

Around the House:tablepaper clips or clothespinspainter’s tapepaper bagcotton ballsprinter / printer paper

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this month’s theme: Stick to Your Resolution

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Wednesday: Cut out several hearts from paper. Write one thing you love about your child on each heart.Hide one heart per day until Valentine’s Day and have your child hunt for it! Read it to them and hang on their bedroom door.

colored papermarkerscissors

Thursday: Fold a piece of colored paper in half and cut a half heart out, unfold, repeat to make a lot. Tape hearts onto a long piece of string. Repeat to make many. Hang them in a window!

colored paperscissorsstring or yarntape

Tuesday: Draw a snowman on thin cardboard, cut out and paint white. Stretch out cotton balls and glue to cover snowman. Glue beads on to make eyes and buttons, use yarn to make a scarf! Cut a 4-5 inch strip of cardboard and roll into a circle and glue on the back of the snowman to make a puppet!

thin cardboard (from cereal box)white paintgluecotton ballsbeads / sequins / buttons / googly eyesyarn

Monday: Tape a heart outline on a piece of card stock. Paint over it using a variety of tools, including combs, rolling pin, fork, etc. Remove tape to reveal the heart!

Friday: Host a party for the family with hot chocolate and a bunch of mix-ins (like marshmallows, pepper-mint, caramel) for the family to get cozy with.

February Activity Plan: Week One

painter’s tapecard stockpaintvariety of tools, comb, rolling pin, fork, etc

Over the Weekend: Recommit yourself to your New Year’s Resolutions or a goal for the next 30 days. Write down your goal and also the benefits of achieving your goal, along with your ‘Why’ and stick it somewhere you’ll see every day. Download your Goal Sheet or visit http://room.handsonas-wegrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sticking-to-a-goal.pdf

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Wednesday: Cut 4 squares out of pink paper, cut the letters LOVE out of white paper and decorate and glue onto pink squares. Punch holes at top to thread yarn through and hang.

pink paperwhite paperhole punchscissorscrayons or markersglueyarn

Thursday: Bang on pots and pans! Grab some spatu-las and spoons and make music!

pots & panskitchen utensils

Tuesday: Cut a heart out of pink or red paper. Write in the middle “H is for Heart”. Write various letters around the edge of the object (with many of them be-ing H or h). Find the letter that the object starts with and clip each with a paper clip.

red or pink cardstockscissorsmarkerpaper clips or clothespins

Monday: Write your child’s name on a piece of paper. Roll play dough into ‘snakes’ to trace the letters in their with the play dough.

Friday: Gear up and go on a hike! If it’s cold, bundle up!

February Activity Plan: Week Two

paper pencilplay dough

Over the Weekend: Find an accountability partner. Commit your goal to them to hold yourself accountable.

Don’t be afraid to ask in The Activity Room Members Only Facebook Group for an accountability partner.

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Wednesday: Roll a die (or dice) and count the dots. Then count out kernels of corn (or other small ob-jects) into a muffin tin. Roll and count again.

dicesmall objectsmuffin tin or egg carton

Thursday: Tape a large piece of paper on the under-side of a table. Set out colored pencils or crayons. Lay down underneath the table and create to your heart’s content!

papertablecolored pencils or crayonstape

Tuesday: Tape 3 lines of tape on the floor about a foot apart. Stand back and toss the lids like a frisbee to land on the tape line!

plastic lidspainter’s tape

Monday: Draw a large heart on a piece of cardstock. Mix glue with a bit of water in a bowl. Dip yarn in the glue mixture to coat. Cover drawn heart with coated yarn completely and let dry.

Friday: Turn on the movie channels, or grab the DVDs, and snuggle up together under warm blankets for a movie marathon!

February Activity Plan: Week Three

cardstock papervarious yarngluewater

Over the Weekend: Carve out time in your day (or week) to do something towards your goal.

Fill out the Finding Time To Do _____ Sheet (it says activities, but scratch that for your goal).

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Wednesday: Create different patterns with blocks, such as ABAB, ABCABC, AABBAABB. Line them up, or see how high of a tower you can make!

Lego or other blocksbutcher papermarkers

Thursday: Rainbow painting! Paint a sponge in rainbow colors for the kids to paint a rainbow with one swipe!

paint (rainbow colors)paintbrushlarge kitchen spongepaper

Tuesday: Draw a large rainbow on butcher paper. Go on a hunt to find toys in the matching colors to place on the corresponding color of the rainbow!

markersbutcher papertoys

Monday: Cut living and non-living things out of mag-azines. Glue onto two separate pieces of paper to classify them and make a collage.

Friday: Make the entire day today about doing good deeds for others. What can you go out of your way to do something nice for someone else today?

February Activity Plan: Week Four

magazinesscissorsschool gluepaper

Over the Weekend: Check in with yourself and your accountability part-ner. What did you achieve?

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February Activity Plan: Week Fiveroom

NEXT month’s theme:

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Wednesday: Make a paper bag mask by cutting two holes around the eyes. Decorate with paper and glue!

paper bagcolored paper scrapsschool glue

Thursday: Open up the Tupperware drawer. Find the matching lids to the bottoms. Or nest them in one another.

tupperware w/matching lids

Tuesday: Print off the rainbow clues, cut apart and tape onto strips of rainbow colored paper and a white cutout cloud. On each clue, circle the color to look for next and fill in the box with an object where to find it. Hide the next clue on that object! Hunt for the clues and tape them on a piece of paper to make a rainbow!

white paperpaper in rainbow colorsprinter / printer paperpentape

Monday: Gather up old buttons, gems or even rocks and create patterns on paper! Create different lines on paper that they may trace with the loose parts.

Friday: Read your favorite Dr. Seuss book for his Birthday on the 2nd.

February Activity Plan: Week Five

loose parts (buttons, gems, rocks)papermarker

Over the Weekend: Tackle a child’s room this weekend to go through, purge and organize!

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Tape a heart outline on a piece of card stock.

Paint over it using a variety of tools you have, such as a comb, fork, rolling pin, etc.

Remove the tape once the paint is dry to the touch to reveal the heart!

Tips:

Use delicate surface painter’s tape if at all possible and remove immediately after paint is dry to the touch.

Textured TapeResist Heart

Supplies: painter’s tape

card stockpaint

variety of tools, comb, rolling pin, fork, etc

Be creative with the objects you use, think about textures they could make.

For added texture, you could add a bit of flour to the paint.

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Draw a snowman on thin cardboard, cut out and paint white.

Stretch out cotton balls and glue to cover snowman. Embellish with beads and yarn to make eyes, buttons and a scarf.

Cut a 4-5 inch strip from the cardboard and roll it into a circle. Glue it onto the back of the snowman to make it a puppet.

Tips:

Stretching cotton balls is great for little fingers! This is a great job for young kids to do while you’re prepping snowmen.

Snowman Puppets

Supplies: thin cardboard (from cereal box)

white paintglue

cotton ballsbeads / sequins / buttons / googly eyes

yarn

Younger kids likely won’t be able to add the embellishments themselves, you can use markers to draw them on instead.

When making the rolled cardboard for the puppet, keep in mind the size of your child’s fingers and make it big enough to easily slide on and off.


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Cut out several hearts (at least one per day until Valentine’s Day) out of colored paper.

Write one things you love about your child on each heart. “I love ____”.

Hide one heart per day until Valentine’s Day. Have your child hunt for it and then read it to them. Hang the collection on their bedroom door as they find them.

Tips:

You can do one per day, and also one big scavenger hunt today. Just do extra hearts!

I Love YouScavenger Hunt

Supplies: colored paper

markerscissors

Be sure to do one heart per child. If more than one child, make the hearts different colors so you can tell them which color to find.

Be creative in the things you love, be sure to include behaviors they do that you love!


http://handsonaswegrow.com/valentines-scavenger-hunt-kids-love

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Fold paper in half and cut a heart out, repeat to make lots of hearts.

Tape the hearts onto a long piece of string. Repeat to make several lengths of these.

Hang in a window!

Tips:

Stack the hearts one above the other to hang the garlands in a window from top to bottom. Otherwise tape them so they’re side by side to string across the window.

Heart Garland

Supplies: colored paper

scissorsstring or yarn

tape

Trace a half of heart onto the folded paper for young kids to cut.

Use 3-4 different colors of paper and have older kids pattern the hearts on the garland.


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Write your child’s name on a piece of paper, as big as you can so it fits on the paper.

Roll play dough into snakes.

Trace the written letters of the name with the play dough.

Tips:

Rolling the play dough is the major part of this fine motor activity, the name and letters are secondary. Remember to tell them what letter they’re working on, to make their name!

Play Dough Name Tracing

Supplies: paper pencil

play dough

It’s okay to use several pieces of snakes to make one letter!

Younger kids may need help forming the letters Instead, you can try straight and slightly curvy lines.


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Cut a heart out of pink or red cardstock.

Write in the middle “H is for Heart”. Write various letters around the edge of the object (with many of them being H or h).

Clip the edge of the shape with paper clips on every one of the letters that the object starts with. (Clip the letter Hs.)

Tips:

Paper clips are tricky and take practice and teaching. They take a lot of fine motor control.

H is for Heart

Supplies: red or pink cardstock

scissorsmarker

paper clips or clothespins

Clothespins are easier for younger kids and are great for strengthening hands.

Do all upper or lowercase for younger kids, or you can just do shapes on a square or circle. Mix upper and lowercase together for older kids.


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Cut 4-5” squares from pink paper and cut the letters LOVE from white paper to fit on cut squares.

Decorate letters to your desire and glue each letter onto pink squares.

Punch 2 holes at top of each square and thread yarn through to hang.

Tips:

Let older kids create their own funky letters to cut out. With younger kids you can draw the letter for them to cut, or cut for them.

Love BannerSupplies: pink paper

white paperhole punch

scissorscrayons or markers

glueyarn

Add extra holes at the top of the letters for extra threading practice!

This can be done all year long for birthdays and other special occasions!


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Dig pots and pans out of your cupboards and kitchen utensils out of the drawers!

Bang on them! Make music or just noise.

Do the different utensils sound different?

Tips:

Don’t dismiss this activity for older kids! They’ll love pounding and making noise as much as a one year old or baby does.

Bang on Pots & Pans

Supplies: pots & pans

kitchen utensils

The sounds the pots make are fantastic sensory. See how many different ways you can make sounds.

Flip over the pots, stack them up. Use metal, plastic and wooden utensils. They’ll all have different sounds.


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Draw a large heart on a piece of cardstock.

Mix glue with a bit of water in a bowl. Dip the yarn into the glue mixture to coat.

Cover the drawn heart with coated yarn completely and let dry.

Tips:

You can cut out around the heart once it’s dry and glue onto another piece of cardstock if you desire.

Textured Yarn Hearts

Supplies: cardstock paper

various yarnglue

water

You may need to add more glue to the yarn once it’s in place to make it stay.

Use this as an opportunity for cutting! Hold yarn taut and let your child snip it at varying lengths!


http://handsonaswegrow.com/texture-yarn-heart-craft/

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Tape 3 lines of tape on the floor about a foot apart.

Decide on a point to stand behind.

Toss the lids like a frisbee and try to land on the line of tape!

Tips:

If you don’t have any plastic lids, you could also use paper plates or little plastic toy Frisbees.

Frisbee Toss

Supplies: plastic lids

painter’s tape

Don’t want to put tape on the floor? Take this to the stairs and have each stair be another point!

Have older kids tally their points on a piece of paper and work toward to number (like 20).


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Set out a die, muffin tin (or egg carton), and small objects.

Roll a die. Count the dots.

Put that many of the small objects into one section of the muffin tin. Counting as you go. Repeat.

Tips:

Small objects that work great for this: toy cars, pom poms, buttons, corn kernels, leaves, etc.

Counting with Dice

Supplies: dice

small objectsmuffin tin or egg carton

If you don’t have dice, you can use a deck of cards instead.

Add multiple dice for older kids. Either count them all together, or separate and add them together (write the equation on a piece of paper).


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Tape a large piece of paper to the underside of a table.

Lay down underneath the table on your back and draw on the paper!

Set out colored pencils or crayons to have handy.

Tips:

Markers aren’t a good choice to use upside down, stick with crayons or colored pencils. Paint would be fun, but prep for a mess!

Drawing Under the Table

Supplies: papertable

colored pencils or crayonstape

This is a fantastic sensory experience by just focusing on the process!

For added fun, throw a blanket over the table and make it a fort to create in!

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Collect your recent magazines. On a piece of paper write “Living” and on another write “Non-Living”.

Find and cut living and non-living things out of the magazines.

Sort the living and non-living things apart and glue them onto separate papers to make a collage.

Tips:

You may need to find a couple examples of living and non-living things to show your preschooler.

Living & Non-Living Collage

Supplies: magazines

scissorsschool glue

paper

Talk to your child about what makes something living. They breathe, they see and hear things. They need food to eat, and so on.

You can classify different things too. Cut out colors and sort. Cut out girls and boys and sort. Cut out flowers and animals and sort. It just depends on what kind of magazines you have!


http://handsonaswegrow.com/sorting-pictures-of-living-and-nonliving-things/

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Rainbow Toy Hunt Draw the colored lines of a rainbow on a large piece of paper.

Go on a hunt through the house to find toys in every color of the rainbow.

Place the toys on the lines to create a large rainbow.

Supplies: markers

butcher papertoys

Tips:

Have some ideas for toys of each color ready. Do you have blocks in several colors? Or letters? What about cars or even markers?

The hunt is much of the fun, but you can also do this with torn up pieces of paper!

Be sure to leave space between the colored lines to fit toys on it.


http://handsonaswegrow.com/colors-a-rainbow-toy-hunt/

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Block PatternsTrace different shapes of blocks, or different colors, in a pattern (ABAB, ABCABC, AABBAABB for example) on a large sheet of paper.

Have your child continue the pattern with the blocks.

Reverse it, have your child start a pattern and you finish it!

Supplies: Lego or other blocks

butcher papermarkers

Tips:

You can also stack the blocks in a pattern and build a tower (this works great with Lego blocks)!

Start with simple patterns for your child to get the hang of it. Red, green, red, green. And then move on to harder patterns, such as AABBAABB.

Make sure you have enough blocks of the colors and shapes you’re making the pattern with to continue the pattern through at least twice.


http://handsonaswegrow.com/learning-with-blocks-shapes-colors/

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Rainbow Sponge Painting Paint a sponge with stripes of paint in the colors of the rainbow.

Swipe the rainbow-painted sponge onto a piece of paper to make a rainbow.

Re-paint the sponge and swipe again!

Supplies: paint (rainbow colors)

paintbrushlarge kitchen sponge

paper

Tips:

An adult will likely have to paint, and reapply, the stripes of paint onto the sponge.

Don’t get discouraged when your child swipes over the paper several times and turns the paint brown. Remember its about the process.

Not in the mood for a rainbow? Just do two primary colors to see what they mix into!


http://handsonaswegrow.com/sponge-art-paint-rainbow/

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Loose Parts Patterns Gather loose parts from around the house, buttons, gems, rock, etc.

Draw a simple pattern on the paper.

Trace the lines on the paper by placing the loose parts on top of them.

Supplies: loose parts (buttons, gems, rocks)

papermarker

Tips:

This can also be done with dry pasta from your pantry too!

Be careful of young kids mouthing the small pieces. You could try this with snack foods if you’re concerned.

Have older kids draw their own design and glue the pieces along the lines for a more permanent craft!

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Rainbow HuntPrint off the rainbow clues that are found here. Cut them apart, and tape onto strips of rainbow colored paper and a cutout cloud.

On each clue, circle the color to look for next and fill in the box with an object where to find it. Hide the next clue there!

Hunt for the clues! When you find one tape them onto a piece of paper to make a rainbow!

Supplies: white paper

paper in rainbow colorsprinter / printer paper

pentape

Tips:

Don’t put a clue on the violet strip of paper. Since that’s the end of the rainbow, it’s the end of the scavenger hunt and there are no more clues.

If your child is beginning to read, you could put words in the clue box, otherwise draw the object!

The order of the rainbow is ROYGBIV, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.


http://handsonaswegrow.com/wp-content/uploads/Rainbow-Hunt.pdf

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http://handsonaswegrow.com/rainbow-scavenger-hunt-with-clues/

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Put the paper bag over your child’s head and make note of where their eyes land on the bag. Remove and cut two large holes around the eyes.

Have your child decorate the paper bag with paper scraps and glue.

Put the mask on for hours of pretend play!

Tips:

Your child can also use paint, markers and crayons to decorate the mask.

Paper Bag Mask

Supplies: paper bag

colored paper scrapsschool glue

Cut out around their shoulders so the bag sits better, if needed.

This is a great opportunity to talk about emotions, facial expressions, and just facial features!


http://handsonaswegrow.com/paper-bag-mask/

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Empty your Tupperware drawer!

Have your child find and match up matching lids and bottoms.

Or nest the bottoms together, biggest to smallest.

Tips:

Snapping the lids onto the bottoms is great practice and also strengthens their hands.

Tupperware Match

Supplies: tupperware w/ matching lids

Use this as an opportunity to organize your Tupperware drawer!

You may want to remove all lids and bottoms that don’t have matches so your child doesn’t get frustrated when they can’t find a match.


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