Send your young child on a Newspaper Scavenger Hunt! Have him or her find letters, numbers, or words in the text of the newspaper and highlight them.
Practice forming letters by playing Tic Tac Toe! Instead of using x's and o's, choose two letters that your child needs to practice.
Have your writer practice the fine art of writing conversation. Choose a comic with 'talking balloons' and have your child write out the narrative and include properly punctuated conversation.
Write simple directions that your child can read on slips of paper, put them inside plastice Easter eggs, and hide them around the room. When found, read the directions and follow them.
Put numbers 1-12 in the bottom of egg carton cups. Shake two beans or other small items in the closed carton and add or multiply the numbers where they land.
Write the name of a book your child has read and enjoyed on a train car. Hang the train on the wall. Will it get long enough to stretch around the room?
Choose an ad from the Lost and Found section of the classifieds and have your child imagine what led up to the placement of the ad and write the story.
Cut out several newspaper articles. Separate the headlines from the text. Have your child match the headline to the proper article.
Tell lots of jokes, riddles, and knock-knock jokes! These exercise your child's language, memory and social skills.
Use newspapers, scissors and glue to practice math problems! Give your child sale ads from the paper and have him/her find numerals to cut out from the page. Paste these onto paper to make math problems and their answers.
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