Color with Benji and Pin Pon
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About This Activity
Fun for all ages, this activity encourages kids to get creative while coloring their favorite bilingual buddies.
Easy
Instructions
1. Print out activity sheet.
2. Get creative coloring in Benji and Pin Pon, see how many different colors you can use!
3. Try your superpower! Think of someone you know who would like to receive a letter from you and send them your drawing, try writing out your address on the letter.
How Your Kid Benefits
This activity engages hand eye coordination through imaginative coloring with your favorite bilingual buddies.
Bonus Benefit!
Bilingual children were found to have a higher aptitude for standardized tests and found in a study that followed children throughout their acquisition of a second language.
Note to Grown-Ups
Art time is a great opportunity to practice mindfulness. If your child is working on an art project independently, encourage them to do so mindfully by working in a quiet, calm, focused way. This activity works well as a supplement to the Art section of the Canticos app.
Activity Sheet
Color with Benji and Pin Pon
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Make a Heart Stamp
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About This Activity
Show some love with this fun and easy craft that repurposes old cardboard into an adorable heart stamp.
1. It’s not necessary to print out this activity sheet, you can follow the instructions your computer.
2. Create your heart stamp using a cardboard tube as directed on the activity sheet.
3. Try your superpower! Use your heart stamp to create artwork, decorations, let your imagination run wild!
This activity teaches kids how to reuse old cardboard in a fun craft that encourages shape recognition and open-ended creative play.
Speaking a second language is known to improve your child’s problem-solving, multitasking and decision-making abilities.
Art time is a great opportunity to practice mindfulness. If your child is working on an art project independently, encourage them to do so mindfully by working in a quiet, calm, focused way. This activity works well as a supplement to the Art section of the Canticos App.
Activity Sheet
Make a Heart Stamp
Made with ♥ from our familia to yours