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Calendars
Learn to keep track of days and months
Materials
- art supplies
- blank calendar grid (see below)
- calendar (real)
- child-safe scissors
- drawing paper
- glue
Directions
It's easy to keep track of days when you know how to use a calendar. After you've shown a calendar to your children and explained how to use it, try the following activities.
- Day by Day: With younger children, discuss the days of the week and invite them to decorate day squares on a calendar. They can also draw pictures to represent certain months.
- Month by Month: Work together with older children to make a one-month calendar. Provide a large paper grid with 35 blank squares and the days of the week along the top. Also provide a sheet of paper with squares numbered 1-31. Children cut apart the numbered squares and glue them in sequence to the calendar grid. To increase their familiarity with numbers, you may want to circle all the even numbers, leaving the odd numbers as squares. Allow your children to decorate the calendar.
Take It Further
Involve children in marking events on your household calendar.
Based on an activity in Play and Learn with Arthur, Volume 2
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