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The document provides 10 engaging family learning activities to keep children intellectually stimulated during school closures due to the coronavirus. Activities include creating puppets from favorite book characters, making a Word Jar for new vocabulary, and cooking together to practice math skills. These activities aim to foster creativity, storytelling, and family bonding while enhancing children's learning experiences.

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10 Family Learning Activities

The document provides 10 engaging family learning activities to keep children intellectually stimulated during school closures due to the coronavirus. Activities include creating puppets from favorite book characters, making a Word Jar for new vocabulary, and cooking together to practice math skills. These activities aim to foster creativity, storytelling, and family bonding while enhancing children's learning experiences.

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10 CORONAVIRUS AND KIDS: RESOURCES FROM SAVE THE CHILDREN

Family Learning Activities


Learning can happen anytime – even when schools are closed. Here are 10 fun family
activities you can do with your children to keep little minds growing!

Bring a Book to Life


Draw pictures of your children’s favorite book characters and cut them out to
make puppets. Use the puppets to act out a scene together. Bringing the story
to life through dramatic play and retelling the story themselves helps children
better understand character development and the storytelling process.

Create a Word Jar


While reading, new words are exciting for children! As you come across new
words, write them down on a piece of paper and then flip to a children’s dictionary
to write their definition on the other side. Collect these new vocabulary words in a
Word Jar. At dinner, pick new words and make sentences out loud together. Build
on this activity by drawing pictures depicting the new word to extend learning.

Fun with Family History


Did Grandpa fight in a World War? Was Grandma born in a different country
or state than you? Write a story together about an important event in your
family’s history. Illustrate your story and fasten it together into a book for the
family library. Knowing where you came from is important to gain a strong
sense of identity.

Let Your Child Be the Storyteller


Ask your child to tell you a story. It can be a new story or an old one with
new twists or characters. Write down what your child says. Read it back to
your child. Save the story to read it again. Let your child’s imagination inspire
you to come up with your own adult stories to write down and share later.

Wake Up, Word Up: Letter of the Day


Over breakfast, work together to choose a letter of the day. Everyone looks
for objects that begin with that letter during the day. You may see this letter
everywhere! Or, you may only notice it in a few places (yeah, we’re looking at
you, X!) Talk about all the things your family observed that day and marvel at
the world around you.
10 Family Learning Activities

Shape Up with Dinner Geometry


Shapes are everywhere, even on your dinner plate. Look at your dinner table
and name all the shapes you see as a way to practice shape recognition. See
who can identify the most!

Who’s Important to You?


Tell or write a story about an important adult in your life. Ask your child to
do the same. Share your stories out loud and see if you can identify common
characteristics. This is a nice way to have a conversation about all the
important people in your lives.

Get Cooking
Bring math into the kitchen and include the whole family when preparing a
recipe. Practice measuring out ingredients using different sizes of measuring
cups. How many scoops does it take to make one cup? How many cups?
How would you prepare the recipe for 24 guests?

Mary Had a Little Rhyme


Learn a popular lullaby from another culture or recite nursery rhymes you
know by heart. Encourage your toddler to sing them with you. You can even
change around the words to make songs about your family! Nursery rhymes
are important to the process of learning and early language skills.

Thoughtful TV Talk
Watch a TV show together as a family. Afterward, ask your child what part
he or she liked the best and why. Offer your own opinions, too. Share about
the shows you watched growing up and how they are similar and different
to what you experienced together. Talking about TV shows can help family
members understand the experiences of others and build a stronger bond.

For more tips, visit savethechildren.org/coronavirus


You’re not alone.

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