6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·10–15 min
Interactive Storytelling
🛒Materials: None
- 1Start telling a story about a character.
- 2Pause at key moments and ask your child to make the decision.
- 3Continue the story based on their choices!
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#2·10–15 min
Sensory Texture Hunt
🛒Materials: None
- 1Find something soft, something hard, something smooth, and something rough in the room.
- 2Have your child touch and describe each object.
- 3Repeat with different textures.
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#3·10 min
Feelings Faces Game
🛒Materials: Paper plates, markers
- 1Draw 4 faces on paper plates: happy, sad, angry, surprised.
- 2Call out a feeling and your child holds up the right face.
- 3Swap: your child calls it, you hold it up.
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This builds emotional vocabulary — one of the best 3–4yo investments.
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#4·10–15 min
Shape Hunt
🛒Materials: Paper, crayon, your home
- 1Draw a circle, square, triangle, and rectangle on a paper.
- 2Walk around the house finding objects that match each shape.
- 3Tick off each shape on the paper when found.
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#5·10 min
Simon Says Movement
🛒Materials: None
- 1Take turns playing 'Simon Says'.
- 2Call out actions like: clap hands, jump, spin.
- 3Helps practice listening skills.
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#6·10–15 min
Balloon Tennis
🛒Materials: Balloon, paper plates, tape or wooden spoons
- 1Tape a paper plate to a spoon to make a racket.
- 2Blow up a balloon.
- 3Play balloon tennis inside without breaking anything!
