Games and Activities to Promote Joyful Communication

Games and activities to reinforce joyful communicationList of ways to build vocabulary/use with activities.

• Music:
  • The itsy bitsy spider
  • Head shoulders knees and toes
  • If you’re happy and you know it
  • One little finger
  • Hokey pokey
  • Old Macdonald
  • Twinkle twinkle little star
  • I’m a little teapot
  • Five little ducks
  • Five green and speckled frogs
  • Apples and bananas
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • ABCs, BINGO

• Games:
  • I spy with my little eye
  • Simon says
  •  Go Fish for “your turn”, “my turn”
  • Blurt is a blurting out word game
  • Headbanz for “what am I”
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Oys & Joys of each day (child says what the good things and not so great things were each day)
  • Story Cubes (9 cubes with 45 images that you tell a story combining whatever images you rolled)
• Reading
  • Books
  • Magazines
  • Grocery store ads
  • Instruction manual for a toy