Bubbles | Blow bubbles. Your child waits for “ready steady go” before popping them.
Bricks | Build a tower, and wait for “ready steady go” before knocking it down.
Peek-a-boo | Your child hides and has to wait for “boo” before popping out.
Beads/buttons | Make necklaces or ‘snakes’. Sort them into colours, shapes and sizes. Put them into pots and shake them. Make patterns to be copied.
Inset puzzles | Take all the pieces out and put them back in. Talk about the pieces. Hide a piece and ask your child what is missing.
Feely boxes | Place objects in a box (e.g. car, apple, toy etc). Let your child pull the objects out of the box one at a time, to talk about and play with.
Songs/Rhymes | Use action songs, e.g. wheels on the bus, wind the bobbin up, incey wincey spider, heads and shoulders.
Hiding Games | Use 2 objects the same, e.g. farm animals, musical instruments. Hide one object and leave the matching one out for your child to look at. Make the noise of the object hidden and see if your child can find the matching one.
Shopping | Place 3-5 objects on the table. Ask your child to fetch one item, then two items, etc.
Sounds | Sit in a quiet room. Talk about the sounds you can hear outside, e.g. cars on the road, birds singing, people talking.
Lotto | Listen to a tape and identify the sound heard by pointing to the appropriate picture. Adult chooses a card and talks about the picture on it. Your child looks at matching cards and sees if he can find the correct card.
Daily tasks | During everyday activities encourage your child to copy you.