Pregnancy
Slow-Motion Pictures
by Steve Bennett
Kids 5 - 10
Required:
Art supplies
Posterboard
Give your young artist some art supplies. With this activity, your child draws the events of the day, then affixes them to a large piece of posterboard in sequence. An older sibling might act as scribe and add captions. Then your child gives you a guided tour of the day.
Alternatively, you can look at the illustrations and perhaps the captions, and try to guess the events of your child's day. Or your child can scramble the drawings and ask you to place them on the posterboard in the correct order. After you've had three tries to guess the actual events and the order in which they occurred, your child can fill you in on the facts.
Other play-by-play possibilities include: your family vacation, a birthday party, a holiday, or an entire school year. Also, you can create your own slow-motion picture of the same event your child chooses, and compare versions. So did your daughter wear a jumper on her first day of kindergarten, as you suggest, or did she really dress up as a circus clown?
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