February Early Intervention Activities You Can Do At Home
Three activities ideas you can do with your toddler to boost their speech and language skills.
1: Learning Emotions
Teaching feeling words can help kids understand their emotions.
Young kids can learn words like; happy, sad, tired, and hungry.
Practice reading body language by pointing out what the eyes, mouth, shoulders, hands, etc. do when we feel happy.
Tip: Talk about how you’re feeling around your child, “It’s almost time for lunch. I’m feeling hungry”.
2: Guess the Word Game
Use the four pictures (or pictures in books) to guess the secret word.
What do you notice about these scenes?
What action is the same in all of them? (Hint, the word is a verb).
Answer: blowing
Challenge: Can you do that action?
3: Daily Task - Activities for Cleaning Up
Cleaning up can be a great learning opportunity.
Name objects as you pick them up.
Follow directions to pick up or put away toys, “Put the boat in the basket”.
Practice sorting toys by category (dolls vs. boats).
Tip: practice these skills when clean-up is small, you’re not in a rush, and your child is happy. Don’t worry about adding anything extra to busy days, big messes, and frustrated kids.
