Suggested Family Activities to Replace TV Viewing
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Promoting an Active Lifestyle, Family Fun, Family Ideas and Inspiration
- Take a walk
- Challenge your child to invent different ways to move about your home or outside; go to the kitchen as slowly as you can, then crawl back, then hop back again, and so on
- Read a book together
- Do a puzzle together
- Write down your child's words in a letter to a loved one, then decorate it together
- Find something you use every day in your house and make it fancy- how about a toothbrush with a glitter handle?
- Go outside to rake leaves, shovel snow, gather interesting objects that you find
- Get down on the floor and build something with blocks, tangrams, Legos
- Ride bikes with your child
- Swim at the local Y
- Brainstorm ideas with your child about what would be more fun than watching TV
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from The Whole Child: Development Education for the Early Years and Early Childhood Settings and Approaches, by J. Hendrick & P. Weissman, 2006 edition, p. 108.
© 2006, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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