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Easy & Inexpensive Educational Activities for Children

Easy & Inexpensive Educational Activities for Children. HES 470 Kali Kiebler Fontbonne University. What are some games or activities that you currently play with your child?. (Google Images, 2012). Play = Learning. Can activities and games be fun AND educational? YES!

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Easy & Inexpensive Educational Activities for Children

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  1. Easy & Inexpensive Educational Activities for Children HES 470 Kali Kiebler Fontbonne University

  2. What are some games or activities that you currently play with your child? (Google Images, 2012)

  3. Play = Learning • Can activities and games be fun AND educational? • YES! • Play is considered by many professionals and theorists, as the best way for a child to learn and interact with his/her environment • Sometimes we don’t consider games or activities we engage in with children to be educational or provide a learning experience, when in reality children are learning!

  4. Play Depends on the Child’s Age 2 – 7 years Preoperational Stage Children see the world through their own experiences Children enjoy pretend play Ex: Playing house, acting out roles, acting like animals/pets Birth – 2 years • Sensorimotor Stage • Learn through sensory system and reflexes • Children at this age enjoy repetition and patterns • Ex: Continuously dropping items

  5. Play Depends on the Child’s Age 12 years + Formal Operational Stage Ability to reason logically Can think abstractly Ex: Increased social play such as sports activities, dance, spending time with friends 7 – 12 years • Concrete Operational Stage • Development of concepts, numbers, relationships, processes occurs in this stage • Children need tactile objects to learn • Ex: Manipulatives, pictures, objects, examples

  6. Why Does This Matter? Children prefer different methods of play and activity at each stage of development Knowing how a child is thinking and developing helps us find and introduce engaging games and activities Parents are the child’s first teacher! (Google Images, 2012)

  7. Importance of Play A behavior that is self-motivated, freely chosen, process oriented, and enjoyable Natural activity for children Provides opportunity to create, invent, discover, and learn about the world Provides children joy

  8. Examples of Inexpensive Activities • Memory • Matching • Any form of art • Story bags • Reading • Pretend play • Building forts • Ice blocks • Open ended materials • Nature exploration • Listening to music • Stringing beads • Crafts • Sensory exploration

  9. References Google Images. (2012). Sensory balloons. Retrieved from http:/ msrachelsroom.blogspot.com/2012/04/sensory-ideas-make- it.html Google Images. (2012). Pipe cleaners. Retrieved from http://2.bp.blogspot.com/ bpxpPwwT5zM/TmUm68xH91I/AAAAAAAABCY/-1Ma2bhJZwE/ s1600/1+277.jpg Google Images. (2012). Child bubbles. Retrieved from http://alleganlibrary.org/ home/children/ Google Images. (2012). Child reading. Retrieved from http:// parenting4tomorrow.blogspot.com/2011/11/10-reasons-to-read-aloud- to-your.html Google Images. (2012). Children posing. Retrieved from http:// www.childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-trainings/online-trainings/ Jackman, H.J. (2012). Early education curriculum: A child’s connection to the world. Wadsworth Cengage Learning: Belmont, CA.

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