Is your child ready for kindergarten?

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Boosting language skills

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A place for placemats

A place for placemats

Make Placemats with Your Preschooler

You will need:

• construction paper
  
• markers
  
• magazines
  
• contact paper
  

You can each make placemats by drawing pictures, cutting and gluing pictures from magazines and printing words related to a theme such as food, animals or toys. When finished, apply contact paper to protect the placemats.

While creating and using the placemats, you can: 

• talk about what you are doing, so your child can  learn new words.
  For example, you could say,  “I am picking this giraffe to cut out.”
  
• talk about problems and how you could solve them.
  For example, you could say, “We can’t find  pictures of breakfast foods. What can we do?”
  
• discuss your themes.
  For example, talk about  which foods are good for breakfast and which  foods are healthier.