Early Childhood Activity Calendar

Children's Activity Calendar
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December 2000


					1 Different people celebrate different holidays. Talk about your child's favorite holiday. What does the holiday celebrate?	2
3 Set a red, a yellow, and a green apple on the table. Ask your child to name the colors. Cut the apples open and talk about how they have different colors on the outside, but are the same on the inside. Just like people. Enjoy your snack!	4	5	6 Plan "TV Blackout" night. Instead of watching TV, read aloud, play games, do a puzzle or sing songs with your child.	7	8	9 Play the "colored food" game. How many foods can your child think of that are red? green? yellow? orange? What "color" foods did your child eat today?
10	11 Make a Family Collage. Let your child cut pictures out of a magazine of things the child does with your family. Glue them on a piece of paper with "My Family" written on top.	12	13	14	15 Play music and dance with your child. Let the child use pots, pans, and spoons to create sounds.	16 Beethoven's Birthday
17 Help your child memorize his or her full name and address. Talk about where the name came from and where your child was born. If you have a map, find the city you live in now and the places different people in your family were born.	18	19	20	21 First Day of Winter	22 Hanukkah begins at sundown	23 Hanukkah Watch a children's movie as a family. Talk about what makes the characters in the movie different from each other.
24	25 Christmas	26 First Day of Kwanzaa	27 Give your child an assortment of beans, buttons, or small stones to be sorted by color, size, or shape. When the sorting is finished, the child can glue the objects onto a card and give it to someone special.	28	29 Draw a picture of a clock. Point to the numbers and let your child tell you what the number is. Talk about what the child does at different times of the day or night.	30
31 New Year's Eve	25 Christmas	26 First Day of Kwanzaa		28		30

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