Language and Thinking Skills Fun at Park Hop

Language and Thinking Skills Fun at Park Hop

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

A carousel of creative learning activities could be found at the Fourth Five Stop Park Hop at KIN Community Park Playground on August 2.

Each of the parks hops focus on one of the five early childhood development domains and The KIN Park’s focus was on Language and Thinking Skills. Vegreville and Area Parent Link Centre (PLC) partnered with Vegreville and District Child Development Coalition and Family and Community Support Services for this park hop.

Children could run in the park and decide which of the numerous activities they wanted to participate in. There was an emotion BINGO activity, sidewalk art where the children pulled out letters from the alphabet and they had to find the carrot that was drawn on the cement with the letter they found on it and from there, the kids had to water the carrot which had the letter they found. There was also an obstacle course, water bomb activity where if the children picked a ball with the number three on it, they had to try to throw this ball in the spot which had the number three on it, an activity where they painted different shapes from the different colors they pulled out, and there were relay races too.

At snack time, children were able to make their own fruit kabobs with the wooden sticks and many fruits which were available.

Free giveaways and draws were offered too. As always, this park hop wrapped up with cooperative play games, songs, and the children had a story read to them.

Support Coordinator for PLC, Tasha Homeniuk said this week the children were learning about language and thinking skills which are number shapes, letters, and colors.