Help Your Kids Get Used to Wearing Masks

If your kids are going to school in person at all for the foreseeable future, it’s likely they will have to wear face masks at some point. Make it a little easier on the teachers and help them get used to the idea and practice of wearing masks now and it will be less scary/annoying when school starts.

Dana at Bias Behavioral has a great set of tips for parents to help their kids get used to wearing masks.

One that we’ve done in our family is putting masks on dolls, and she gets to pick the masks she wants from a variety that I am making.

Click over to her post for all the tips. If something has worked for you I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Bias Behavioral.]

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I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

Comments

Christine says
July 30, 2020 at 5:28 am
I didn’t know children had to wear masks. No child round here wears a mask.
Sarah White says
August 5, 2020 at 6:24 pm
Where I live, and I think it’s true in lots of places in the United States that have mask mandates, kids over 10 have to wear them and they are recommended over age 2. Some schools are also requiring masks since they can’t have kids sit six feet apart.

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