April Activity Calendar
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
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| Plant a living “Easter Basket”. Keep it growing until the end of the month. | Introduce the letter J. Make a large letter J for your child to cut out. | Do one or two of the letter J activities. | Make purple jello jigglers. | Do jelly bean sorting/graphing activity. |
| Read a “Peter Rabbit” story to your child. | Do Rabbit/Carrot matching activity with numbers. | Buy carrots that have the stems. Show your child how to clean and scrape a carrot. Have carrots and dip for a snack. | Teach your child how to “hop”. Practice hopping with your child for a few days. | Teach your child the “Bunny Hop”. |
| Discuss the characteristics of rabbits. Visit a farm that has real rabbits or watch a video about rabbits. | Introduce the letter Q. Make a large letter Q for your child to cut out. | Do one or two of the letter Q activities. Do some of the activities from the Quilt Unit. | Fill eight plastic eggs with treats. Discuss the words Open and Shut. Do the “Open Them, Shut Them” finger play with your child. | Boil and color some eggs with your child. Use crayons to make designs. Discuss with your child why the dye doesn’t stick to the crayon wax. |
Deliver the “living Easter basket” filled with the plastic egg treats and some colored eggs to a friend. Help your child make a card.
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Teach your child the Humpty, Dumpty Rhyme. Make a Humpty, Dumpty Book and your child tell you the story. | Introduce the Rectangle. Build or buy a rectangle flower box. | Buy pansy seed or flowers and plant in the flower box. Discuss with your child how to take care of flowers and what they need to help them grow. | Make and help your child complete the Ladybug number matching game. |
