Wacky Snacky – Banana Butter Roll Ups Pita Wrap Bananas Wow Butter (or Peanut/Nut Butter) Additional Toppings: Honey, Rasins, Granola, Chocolate Chips Instructions Spread Wow Butter all over one side of pita Add your additional toppings. Peel Banana, lay it near the end of the pita bread and wrap the pita over the banana Tuck…
Social-Emotional Development Take A Breath Sometimes children just need to take a breath and decompress especially with the ‘new normal’ of life. Take a minute and listen to one of Raffi’s songs ‘Take a Breath’. Remember to take a breath when Raffi takes a breath. Click on the link to follow along https://soundcloud.com/rounder-records/raffi-take-a-breath-the-self-reg-song Cognitive Development…
Social–Emotional Firework Breath Sometimes children have so much energy that releasing it through active breathing helps them relax. Try this technique with your child to release their excess energy. • Lower yourself into a squat position while your palms are pressed together.• Take a deep breath through your nose.• Exhale while you jump and shoot…
Social-Emotional Be My Shadow What to do: One-year old’s are becoming skilled at copying not only your movements but also trying to copy your words. Copycat games are a great learning tool for infancy. Invite your infant to follow your lead as you. Do slow and fast simple, repetitive movement. Watch your child as they…
STEAM Activity: Making Edible Shattering Glass Glass is made up of tiny grains of the purest sand where heat is added so that it becomes holt and molten or in other words like a liquid. Once the sand becomes liquified it can then be turned into glass. Since you most likely will not have access…
Moving and Shaking Body Blast Break What to do: Children are not meant to be still for long periods. Energy needs to be released to optimize growth and learning. To keep a toddler’s mental health balanced with their physical body, toddlers should ‘reset’ to allow them to channel their focuses where needed. When you notice…
Social-Emotional Lunch Buddies Social Engagement starts with observations and copying behaviours. At feeding times, position your child where they are facing you. Sit at their level. Call attention to what your child is eating, the colours, the texture, the temperature. Count the pieces of food on their plate, remind them to take bites and slowly…
Family Connections for Toddlers What could you do? Toddler emotions can be large and intense. But no matter how little they are, their feelings are valid and significant to their small world. One thing us big people often forget is that these children haven’t gained the skills to appropriately navigate their behaviours and expressions in…
STEAM Activity: Water Pollution Experiment Use this experiment to support children in learning about how hard it is to undo the pollution that fills our water. What you will need: – Bucket of clean water– Some household trash – Vegetable oil – Tongs – Strainer Method: Have a look at the bucket of clean water….
Social–Emotional Five Finger Breathing Numbers are a great way to practice some breathing skills with children. Have your child sit or stand with their back straight. Have them open their hand exposing the palm on one hand. With the pointer finger on the other hand slowly have them trace their fingers while breathing. Trace up…
