6 Ideas to Try Right Now
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#1·15–20 min
Shaving Cream Table Play
🛒Materials: Shaving cream, food colouring
- 1Spray shaving cream on a tray or table.
- 2Add drops of food colouring.
- 3Let your child mix, draw, and explore.
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#2·20 min
Cloud Dough
🛒Materials: 8 cups flour, 1 cup baby oil
- 1Mix flour and baby oil until crumbly.
- 2It moulds when squeezed but crumbles apart.
- 3Add small moulds or cookie cutters.
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It's mess-free — doesn't stick to hands.
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#3·15–20 min
Sponge Water Transfer
🛒Materials: 2 bowls, sponge, water
- 1Fill one bowl with water and leave the other empty.
- 2Give your child a large sponge.
- 3Let them soak water from one bowl and squeeze it into the other.
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#4·10 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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#5·10 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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#6·15 min
Color Matching Relay
🛒Materials: Colored toys, colored paper sheets
- 1Place sheets of colored paper at one end of the room.
- 2Scatter matching colored toys at the other end.
- 3Have your child run, grab a toy, and place it on the matching paper.
