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Let’s Learn!
What can you do with it? Many things can be taught when you have your child’s attention with this snack activity. What is your focus? Eye hand coordination? Color words? Beginning sounds? Letter recognition? Number words or number recognition. Writing practice? Action words(verbs)? Prereading and prewriting skills. Reading and wring. All of these can be practiced with making bugs on a log.
How?
The eye hand coordination is in holding that slippery celery and a knife or spoon to corral the peanut butter. What a fun way to strengthen those pincer muscles that will need to hold a pencil, crayon or marker. Those same muscles that control putting the food in our mouth need to be strong to put words on paper.
Color words
Have several small pieces of paper precut to use. Make a color word book. One color on each page. Crayons require more muscle to use than markers.
A blue bug (Encourage your child to draw with a blue crayon)
A green bug
A yellow bug, etc.
Make a Book
Or for an older child, use a learning poem.
Bugs
Bugs have a head.
Bugs have a thorax.
Bugs have an abdomen, too.
Add 2 antenna
And 6 tiny legs
And see what a bug can do.
Make your own book about bugs to read to or with your child. A younger child can learn from a chart or book with the words put on it by you. Letter recognition. Circle all the letter a’s, or b’s on the chart.
Action words
Observe a bug in a jar for a few minutes while eating or making the snack.
Then,
Add paper and pencil and keen observation.
A bug can _________.
Talk about what a bug can do. Have your child write the words or draw the pictures (depending on age and skill level). A bug can walk, climb, fly, stop, sleep, eat, etc.
Remember this is a fun learning activity. No pressure, lots of help and quality time together. The bug on a log shown in the picture has 3 dried cranberry body parts, 2 dried apricot slices for antenna and 6 cheerio legs. Enjoy!
What can you do with it? Many things can be taught when you have your child’s attention with this snack activity. What is your focus? Eye hand coordination? Color words? Beginning sounds? Letter recognition? Number words or number recognition. Writing practice? Action words(verbs)? Prereading and prewriting skills. Reading and wring. All of these can be practiced with making bugs on a log.
How?
The eye hand coordination is in holding that slippery celery and a knife or spoon to corral the peanut butter. What a fun way to strengthen those pincer muscles that will need to hold a pencil, crayon or marker. Those same muscles that control putting the food in our mouth need to be strong to put words on paper.
Color words
Have several small pieces of paper precut to use. Make a color word book. One color on each page. Crayons require more muscle to use than markers.
A blue bug (Encourage your child to draw with a blue crayon)
A green bug
A yellow bug, etc.
Make a Book
Or for an older child, use a learning poem.
Bugs
Bugs have a head.
Bugs have a thorax.
Bugs have an abdomen, too.
Add 2 antenna
And 6 tiny legs
And see what a bug can do.
Make your own book about bugs to read to or with your child. A younger child can learn from a chart or book with the words put on it by you. Letter recognition. Circle all the letter a’s, or b’s on the chart.
Action words
Observe a bug in a jar for a few minutes while eating or making the snack.
Then,
Add paper and pencil and keen observation.
A bug can _________.
Talk about what a bug can do. Have your child write the words or draw the pictures (depending on age and skill level). A bug can walk, climb, fly, stop, sleep, eat, etc.
Remember this is a fun learning activity. No pressure, lots of help and quality time together. The bug on a log shown in the picture has 3 dried cranberry body parts, 2 dried apricot slices for antenna and 6 cheerio legs. Enjoy!
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