RELATED TOPICS: Talk, Sing, and Point; Play and Explore; Your Curious Child

BENEFITS: Learn numbers, colors and shapes, fine motor skills, and concentration 

MATERIALS:  

1. 4 x brown paper bags or cereal boxes 

2. 4 x sheets of colored paper 

3. A pair of scissors 

4. A pencil 

5. A stick of glue 

6. A handful of googly eyes 

7. A handful of pipe cleaners 

8. LEGO DUPLO bricks in 4 or more colors 

STEPS: 

1. Draw your monster shape on a piece of colored paper and cut out a mouth. By making the holes specific shapes – a circle, a square or a triangle – you can help your child to learn shape names while they play. 

2. Mark out the shape of the monster mouth on the paper bag using a pencil, then cut out the mouth. 

3. Get your child to glue the monster to the front of the bag and decorate it – Googly eyes are a great way to talk about numbers while you play: Can you feed these bricks to the monster with three eyes?” 

4. Make a variety of different colored monsters – Open up the bags and let your little one feed the matching color LEGO DUPLO bricks into each monster mouth – yummy! Combine color and number skills by, for example, asking your child to feed three red bricks to the monster with three eyes. Oh, and make sure to ask what noises the monsters will make! 

Activity Source: Lego.com

Picture Credit: Lego.com