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Helping With Family Chores

Helping with family chores is a great way to make your preschooler feel valued and important. Children love to help, and giving them age-appropriate tasks is an excellent way to instill responsibility from an early age.

Your child can help do simple tasks all around the house such as:

Laundry: Sort colors into piles or […]

Comparing Long & Short

•Compare long and short objects such as toothpicks and craft sticks.

•Compare things like shoe sizes, hair length, and the height of people in the family.

•Make long and short necklaces from beads, tube pasta, or O-shaped cereal.

 

For more about teaching the concepts of size, colors, shapes, numbers and counting visit: http://www.homefires.com/click?concepts

Shape-Matching Concentration Game

Play a matching game with index cards. Make identical sets of index cards with a shape drawn on each card (so that you have 2 cards with circles, 2 with triangles, etc.).

Turn cards over and match the shapes for a game of concentration. For beginners, have children match the shapes first without playing concentration.

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