# Activities

**5** **HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN AND GROW!**

### AGEYEARS

Try these fun and easy activities with your 5-year-old—a great way to have fun together and encourage your child’s healthy development.

#### Nature Collages

Make a nature collage. Collect leaves, pebbles, and small sticks from outside and glue them on a piece of cardboard or stiff paper. (Cereal and cracker boxes can be cut up and used as cardboard.) **Developmental Areas: Fine Motor, Problem Solving** **Materials Needed: Cardboard or paper, glue**

#### 20 Questions

Play “20 Questions.” Think of an animal. Let your child ask 20 yes/no questions about the animal until she guesses what animal it is. (You may need to help your child to ask yes/no questions at first.) Now let your child choose an animal and you ask the 20 questions. You can also use other categories such as food, toys, and people. **Developmental Areas: Communication, Problem Solving** **Materials Needed: None**

#### Charades

Practice pretend play or pantomime. Here are some things to act out: 1) eating a hot pizza with stringy cheese; 2) winning a race; 3) finding a giant spider; 4) walking in thick, sticky mud; and 5) making footprints in wet dirt or sand. **Developmental Areas: Personal-Social** **Materials Needed: None**

#### Kickball

Play a simple ball game such as kickball. Use a large (8”–12”) ball, and slowly roll it toward your child. See if your child can kick the ball and run to “first base.” **Developmental Areas: Gross Motor** **Materials Needed: Large ball**

##### Want to learn about developmental milestones for your 5-year-old?

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Excerpted from ASQ®-3 User’s Guide by Jane Squires, Ph.D., Elizabeth Twombly, M.S., Diane Bricker, Ph.D., & LaWanda Potter, M.S. ©2009 Brookes Publishing. All Rights Reserved.