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COLOR CARS
Set out several toy cars, some of the yellow and some of them blue.
Let your child sort the cars by "parking" the yellow cars
on a sheet of yellow paper and the blue cars on a sheet of blue paper. |
IN THE GARAGE
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Turn a shoebox into a car garage by cutting
a door in one side. Ask your child to park two cars in the
garage. Count with him as he "drives" one car and
then another into the garage. Take the cars out of the garage.
Repeat, letting your child drive a different number of cars
into the garage each time.
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THROUGH THE TUNNEL
| Prop a long cardboard tube
up on a chair. Tape it in place, if you wish. Ask your child
what she thinks will happen if she puts a car in the top of
the tube. Let her try it. Where does the car go? How far does
it go? Let her try again (and again). Or, prop up two cardboard
tubes and have a race. |
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LINING UP
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Give your child a small box of toy cars to
line up. Encourage your child to make a long line of cars,
a short line of cars, a line of blue cars, a line of race
cars, and so on.
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BIG AND SMALL |
| Collect toy cars of varying
sizes. Help your child arrange the cars from smallest to biggest.
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STOP AND GO
| Talk with your child about the stoplights
you see when you drive around town. Explain that green means
the cars and trucks can go and red means they must stop. Cut
a circle out of red paper and a circle out of green paper. Hold
up the green circle and have your child "drive" a
toy car all around the room. Then hold up the red circle, have
your child "stop" the car. Continue alternating the
green and red circles as your child drives and stops the car.
Then let your child hold up circles while you drive and stop
the toy car. |
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