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My Family and Me

illustration of scrapbook

Age Range: 3-5

Subject:

  • Arts and Crafts
  • Language and Literacy

Objectives:

  • Literacy
  • Building Self Esteem

Your child can be author and illustrator of a book about your family.

Materials:

  • Family photographs (optional)
  • Paper
  • Crayons or markers
  • Stapler

Directions:

Help your child make a book about your family by pasting photographs or drawing portraits. Your child may want to use a separate page for each person or make family cluster pictures, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Your child may want to write or dictate things like:

  • What they call that person
  • How that person is related to them
  • What they like to do with that person

Staple the pages together for a book that's about "My Family and Me"

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