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CALENDAR FUN
Let your child use an unwanted calendar for these activities.
- Sort numerals cut from several calendar pages into matching
piles.
- Color in the squares on a calendar page to make patterns
(one red, one blue, one red, one blue, and so on.
- Dictate a story about a calendar picture for you to write
down on large paper. Tape on the picture for an illustration.
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KITCHEN NOISEMAKERS
Your child will have fun welcoming the New Year with
these handy kitchen items. If you wish, use the noisemakers to accompany
the song "Toot Your Horn," below.
- Tootle a tune through a paper towel tube.
- Thump on a saucepan with a wooden spoon.
- Shake a tea ball with a jingle bell inside it.
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TOOT YOUR HORN
Tune: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
Too, toot, toot your horn,
Toot it loud and clear.
Toot it high and toot it low
To welcome the New Year.
More Verses: Bang, bang, bang your drum; Ring, ring, ring your
bell; Clap, clap, clap your hands; Stomp, stomp, stomp your feet.
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NEW YEAR'S
CAKE
Together, make and decorate a birthday cake for the New
Year. When it's time to celebrate, add candles (two for 2002, three
for 2003, and so on) and sing "Happy Birthday."
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