The only thing you need for this game is a telephone and the number of an understanding friend or relative. Talking with the child as you do your activities can make nearly everything a learning activity. Talk about your favorite parts of the day at the dinner table. Writing Children can help you make up the grocery list. Older children who are learning how to write can add items to the list when you run out of them during the week.
Some children enjoy keeping track of events on the kitchen calendar.
Sunshiney faces, snowflakes, raindrops and ferocious clouds have been drawn in to record the daily weather patterns on many a family calendar. Science Make ice cubes and let them melt. Math A great way to learn to categorize is to help put away the silverware in trays that have separate locations for forks, spoons and knives. When you bring groceries home, ask your child to help sort out the cans that look alike and then help to put them away. You can count nearly everything from salt shakers to apples in the fruit bowl.