Stickers for Mommy

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Stickers for Mommy

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About This Activity

Use these stickers to decorate a card for mamá! Making a gift for someone you love is a great way to set positive goals while practicing empathy.

Ages: 3+
Level:
Easy
Materials: Printed activity sheets; crayons or colored pencils, scissors, blank paper for your card, glue stick
Instructions

1. Print out activity sheet.
2. Color in each sticker, use your mommy’s favorite colors if you want.
3. Cut out your stickers and decorate a card for mamá by glueing them on however you like.
4. Try your superpower! Write a note to Mommy in Spanish using words to tell her how much you love her.

How Your Kid Benefits

This activity encourages social emotional learning by allowing kids to set a positive goal and engaging their sense of empathy and creativity to maintain a loving relationship.

Bonus Benefit!

Children who learned a second language were better able to filter out irrelevant information and focus on important information, thus making them more skilled at prioritizing different tasks and balancing multiple projects.

Note to Grown-Ups

You can help your child with this activity by modeling letter writing, which is an effective way to introduce and enrich pre-writing lessons. The Stickers section of the Canticos App is a great way to continue this fun.

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Color by Numbers

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Color by Numbers

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About This Activity

Watch the Canticos World come to life as you color by numbers, practicing numeracy and vocabulary along the way.

Ages: 3+
Level: Medium
Materials: Printed activity sheets; pencils; crayons or colored pencils
Instructions

1. Print out activity sheet.
2. Identify the numbers in this picture and color in each section with its corresponding color shown in the key at the top of the activity sheet.
3. Try your superpower! Keep practicing numbers by counting how many different objects you can find in your home that have numbers (clocks, scales, maps).

How Your Kid Benefits

This activity encourages helps with word association and color vocabulary, as well as exposing kids to early bilingual numeracy through creative expression.

Bonus Benefit!

Studies have shown that children who are exposed to other languages are more likely to be empathetic and better communicators, allowing them to understand other perspectives more easily.

Note to Grown-Ups

These activities encourage children to practice numbers and colors in a fun, low-pressure way. Have them say the color words out loud as often as possible. Read All the Colors / De Colores in the Books section of the Canticos App for more practice.

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Color by Numbers

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Make an Emotions Wheel

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Make an Emotions Wheel

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About This Activity

How are you feeling today? Get crafty and express your feelings with this creative exercise that helps kids identify emotions in two languages.

Ages: 3+
Level: Medium
Materials: Printed activity sheets; pencils; crayons or colored pencils
Instructions

1. Print out activity sheet.
2. Name and identify your emotions in English and Spanish by creating an emotions wheel.
3. Try your superpower! Retell a time when you felt happy, sad, anxious, sleepy and hungry, draw a face for each emotion you learn.

How Your Kid Benefits

This activity stimulates empathy while helping kids creatively identify emotions in two languages.

Bonus Benefit!

Bilinguals are better able to adapt social flexibility, suggesting that alternating between languages allows for them to more successfully alternate between social situations.

Note to Grown-Ups

Asking children to name their emotions is an important first step to regulating their emotions. Encourage them to voice how they are feeling by asking them directly, and have them explain their feelings. “I am feeling ___ because…” For more practice with emotion words, have your child engage with the Feelings game in the Learn section of the Canticos App.

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Make an Emotions Wheel

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