Section 3 Wellcomm Home Activities 2
Section 3 Wellcomm Home Activities 2
Section 3 Wellcomm Home Activities 2
Use a large doll/teddy/character toy and some real objects e.g. cup/spoon/brush. Pretend to
have a drink and then give the toy a drink. Say e.g. ‘Give Peppa a drink’ and let your child copy
what you did. You can also do familiar actions like, washing face, brushing hair, wiping nose,
feeding, putting to bed.
Here we go round the Mulberry Bush: you can add other actions – this is the way we pat our
knees/wiggle our fingers/shake our shoulders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYKpPGTkrI
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands: you can make up your own actions to this too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwTwt4oIW3U
Everybody hide your toes (to the tune of ‘London Bridge is falling down’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXCf_fPD2k
You and your child each have something to cover your toes e.g. a scarf or towel as you sing:
Everybody hide your toes, hide your toes, hide your toes.
Everybody hide your toes – now lets find them. 1…2….3..woooo (as you uncover them)
Use a large doll/teddy/character toy. Say to your child ‘Ready steady jump’ and do it together.
Let your child make the toy do the same actions – you could try
jumping/hopping/kicking/dancing/clapping/waving
Play some music. When the music stops choose an action to do
Video your child doing lots of different actions. Play back the video and name the action while
your child copies it.
While sharing books or watching favourite TV programmes, name the actions that characters are
doing
Put out 2 familiar toys e.g. doll/teddy/character toy and 2 familiar objects e.g. box/chair. Ask
your child to put the toy in or on one of the objects.
Language activities based on the Big Book of Ideas: Section 3
Give your child instructions to go and get things from around the house e.g. ‘Go and get
Mummy’s shoes’
When outdoors, ask your child to run and touch something e.g. the fence. When they are good
at following one instruction, you could ask them to run and touch 2 things e.g. the fence and the
chair.
Use bubbles – when your child indicates they want more say ‘More bubbles’.
You could also do the same with small pieces of banana or toast.
Get a large cardboard box with a hole cut in the top. Have a selection of small items to post
through the hole and as you do this say e.g. ‘Keys gone’ Encourage your child to say ‘gone’ then
put both words together.
Play a ‘naming game’ together. Get a pillowcase and put about 10 everyday items inside. Let
your child feel in the pillowcase and pull one item out, saying its name. If she doesn’t know the
name of the item, give a choice e.g. is it a spoon or a bowl? When all the items have been
removed from the pillowcase, ask your child to pick up one at a time, name it and put it back in
the bag.
Play a sorting game. You could have 2 sets of familiar objects e.g. clothes and toys mixed
together. Choose 1 item at a time and put it either in the clothes basket or the toy box, naming
each item as you do it.
Play some simple songs and rhymes which have actions – you can find lots on you tube: Twinkle,
twinkle little star, I’m a little teapot, Hey diddle diddle, Polly put the kettle on, The Grand Old
Duke of York, Incy Wincy spider, Humpty Dumpty (these are just a few). You can make up your
own actions and encourage your child to join in with you. Remember to repeat the same songs
lots of times!
Language activities based on the Big Book of Ideas: Section 3
When you go out for a walk, point to and name things which may capture your child’s interest
e.g. bird, dog, cat, flowers, car, bike, truck, traffic light, items in a shop. You could also take
photos then let your child show another member of the family and say what they have seen.