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Focus on Pretend Play to Help with Early Literacy
Focus on Pretend Play to Help with Early Literacy During early literacy, it is important for young children to develop personal responses to written text. Past research indicated that story play contributes to construction of meaning. A form of symbolic play directly related to children’s literature is book related pretend play. This type of play […]
Robot Find the Differences Puzzles
Robot Find the Differences Can you find 6 differences between the robot pictures? You can download the FREE printable at the end of this blog post. This robot find the differences puzzle requires a child to use visual attention, visual scanning and visual motor skills. These skills help to forge literacy foundations through fun, playful […]
Mix and Match Robots
Mix and Match Robots Kids can practice scissor skills, sequencing and creativity with this mix and match robots printable. You can download your FREE copy of the printable at the end of the post. There are various ways you can use this activity. Color the robots. Cut apart the 4 robots and then cut each […]
Do Video Games Influence a Child’s Ability to Learn a New Skill?
Do Video Games Influence a Child’s Ability to Learn a New Skill? I had an interesting observation today while playing with two of my children. Using blue plastic piping, PVC caps and some string we made the bow and arrows (which we had a lot of fun creating). We headed outdoors to test out the […]
Do the Robot Dance – Can you maintain robot rhythm?
Do the Robot Dance – Can you maintain the robot rhythm? Can you do the robot dance? Download this printable (for free at the bottom of the post) to practice maintaining rhythm. The ability to maintain and move with rhythm requires higher level coordination skills. The right and left sides of the body have to […]
How Many Kids Do You See Counting Activity
Need an activity in a hurry to entertain the kids? See if they can count how many kids they see. This black and white puzzle is from the complete How Many Do You See digital download. This digital download is a 44 page PDF document that you will receive immediately following payment. There are 20 […]
Color by Number Robot
Color By Number Robot This color by number robot activity is a perfect quiet activity for children when it is time to unplug or get creative. You can download it for free at the end of the post by signing up for the Growing Play newsletter. This activity requires children to practice various skills: focus, […]
My #1 Tip for Camping with Kids and It is Super Easy
Camping with Kids We have been camping with kids for over a decade in tents, a pop-up camper and finally now our camping trailer. Throughout all of these years, we have made the BEST memories as a family while camping together. We have even gone camping when one of our children was only 2 weeks […]
Robot Drawing Challenge – Get Your FREE Copy
Copy the Robot Drawing Challenge The robot drawing challenge includes three levels. Level 1 is to finish drawing the missing parts of the robot. Level 2 is to finish drawing the other half of the robot. Level 3 is to copy the robot onto the grid. And if you want an extra challenge – level […]
Robot Pattern Maze – Visual Discrimination and Visual Motor Skills
Robot Pattern Maze I’m moving on to the next theme and I picked robots! To start us off, I have created a Robot Pattern Maze (that you can download for free at the bottom of the post). This maze encourages children to practice visual discrimination, visual motor, visual spatial and problem-solving skills. You can print […]