5 Tips to Keep Your Child Learning Over the Holidays

1. Use the kitchen as a learning tool

• Read cookbooks together

• Write shopping lists with words or pictures

• Find the grocery items at the store by reading signs and labels

• Cook together

1. Get out and about

• Let kids help plan a family outing

• Sightsee or explore something new in your city

• Attend free events like local concerts, plays, or museums

1. Make the most of holiday travel

• Test geography knowledge by calling out all 50 states (or make a song of it)

• Identify & count the number of different colored cars

• Find license plates from different states

• Guess the time it will take to get to different destinations. Set the timer and GO!

• Listen to audio books

1. Mix up their reading routine

• Pick out some holiday-themed books to read by the fireplace, your Christmas tree or make a nice cozy pillow fort

• Read and sing the lyrics to holiday songs. Then, create your own!

1. Connect with family

• Use Old family photographs to start a story-telling tradition.

• Improve writing skills with notes or letters to relatives and friends

• Play a board game with family to sharpen thinking skills

• Shed some of those holiday pounds with a family workout

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