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Book-Related Family Activities
Let’s Talk
- During the first reading, we participate with our child as we follow instructions together. This helps our little one to understand actions through our embodiment and imitation.
- About emotions: we can ask our child how they felt when we read the book and played together, and which books they love and prefer.
- About playing together: we can ask our children which activities and games they like to play together.
Let’s Create
Children learn the art of pointillism and create paintings using this technique. We can use felt-tip pens, cotton swabs, and paint.
Let’s Enrich our Language
- The book is rich in vocabulary and linguistic concepts, touching, pressing, softening, illuminating, and more. We can explain these to our children during reading and use them in daily life.
- We can recall encouraging words from the text and try to use them in our daily lives.
Let’s Play and Have Fun Together
We can play “The King Says:” participants must follow the instructions preceded by the phrase “The King Says.” For example, if we say, “The King says jump to the right,” we jump together. If we say “Jump to the right” only, we don’t jump. We can take turns as a
Let’s Explore
The book presents the art of color blending and mixing. We can mix colors together and learn about new colors.
The first time...
The first time we read the book, we can stop on the last page (16) and encourage our child to guess the source of the sound.
We can take...
We can take a tour around the house, and listen to the sounds emanating from each room, and try to define it: is it a rattle, a tick, or a buzz? We can also listen to the voices outside: How do the sounds coming from outside differ from the ones inside?
We can look...
We can look for objects at home with which we can make different sounds such as kitchen utensils, nylon bags, newspapers, and others. We can try to make sounds with the same object: does the sound of a pot differ, for example, if we knock on it with a wooden spoon or a metal spoon, if it is full of objects or empty?