Paper Bag Game For All Ages

Hi Everyone,

This is a fun game that can be used all ages.

  1. Grab a bag and depending on what you child is working on, place objects, pictures, vocabulary words in the bag.
  2. Taking turns have the child pick the item, vocabulary word, targeted sound word or picture out of the bag.
  3. Object
    1. what is it?
    2. where do you find it?
    3. what can it be used for?
    4. why do we need it?
    5. when do we use it?

4. Vocabulary Word

a. define it

b . give a synonym for it

c. give a antonym for it

d. use it a meaningful sentence

5. Target Sounds

  • say it in isolation if your child is at that level
  • say it in the word
  • say it in a sentence
  • define the word

Pronoun Activity

Have your child make a collage from magazines or pictures from the computer of girls and boys doing activities separate or together. Have them cut out the pictures and glue them on a piece of paper.

  1. Ask your child to point to the he and the she in the picture. This is seeing if your child can identify the difference between the pronouns.
  2. You can ask who is eating the ice cream? She is eating the ice cream. He is eating the ice cream.
  3. This is the boy’s hat, whose hat is this, it’s his hat. Whose scarf is this, it’s her scarf.
  4. The children are sitting on the bench. Point to the group of children. They are sitting on the bench. Who is sitting on the bench, they are sitting on the bench. The kids are sitting on the bench. Whose bench is it, it’s their bench.

Recipe Activity

A great way to work on language is by baking or cooking something. We can cover a lot of different goals with this activity. Here is the following goals we can focus on during this activity:

1. Following 1-3 step directions

2. Vocabulary what type of food, spices and equipment is used in the recipe

3. Using complete sentences when talking about what you are doing (I am pouring the milk into the bowl) While you are doing this you are using present tense or present progressing ing verbs pour or pouring.

4. Following the recipe working on sequencing, talk about what happened first, second, third, fourth etc. Also you can use other temporal concepts, such as first, next, before, after.

5. Also have your child write out what they did sequentially. I made brownies today. The first thing I did was open he box of mix. Next I poured the mix into the bowl.

6. You can also work on past tense as you talk about what you did orally and it written form. I poured the mill into the bowl, I mixed the batter.

7. Also address wh questions while making the recipe. What did we make, who made it with us, why did you mix the brownie mix, why did you use cookie cutters, when did you pour the milk in.

ENJOY THIS FUN ACTIVITY!!