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ACTIVITIES FOR PRACTICING COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR CHILDREN

ACTIVITY 12

Story Forming

Kids love listening to stories, but what about making a story of their own. This exercise solely depends on the verbal interaction of the kids to form a story. Narrate a gist of a story to the kids before starting the game. Cut out some pictures of the same story from a book or you can even sketch it on your own and laminate them. Scatter all the pieces of pictures in front of a small group of kids and ask them to arrange it in a sequence of the story that they have just heard by communicating among each other. Once they have finished doing this, ask each one to narrate their part of story through the picture. Scroll on communication skills games for more ideas.

ROLL THE DICE

ACTIVITY 10

ACTIVITY 11

Changing the Leader: Learning to read body and facial cues is an important part of communication. Changing the Leader is a fun game that helps train children to pay attention to these cues. One person starts as the leader, performing an action like clapping or stomping his feet. He can also use his face to indicate an emotion, like smiling, frowning or grimacing. Everyone does what the leader does, changing when he changes. The leader then points to someone new to be the leader, and the focus has to change to that person and his cues.

Telephone is a classic game of communication and misunderstanding. Have the children stand or sit side-by-side in a circle. Start the telephone by whispering a message in one child's ear. That child passes the message along to the person on his other side by whispering the message into her ear. The message should be passed from child to child in this manner until the last child whispers it back into your ear. Tell the class the message you passed to the first child and the one you received from the last child. Chances are they will be very different.

ACTIVITY 9

Conversation Ball. If your child continuously interrupts during other people's conversations, use a conversation ball. During discussions, have the person that is talking hold onto a ball. No one else can speak. Once the first person is done, they hand the ball to the next person that wants to add to the conversation. Only the person holding the ball can speak.

ACTIVITY 8

Guess What Happened to Me!! Have a board where your child can keep memories of exciting things that have happened to them. For school age children, have them tell you one exciting or interesting thing that happened during the day and they can write the story or for younger ones, you can write the story. Keep the stories posted so they can go back over and see what has happened to them.

ACTIVITY 7

How Do You Feel? Make up cards for feelings, for younger children, draw pictures and have them hanging up somewhere your child can reach. Several times during the day have them use the cards to let you know how they are feeling.

ACTIVITY 6

Picture Box. Use a shoe box and put pictures all around it on the outside of the box. Put a number on each picture and have cards inside the box with the numbers. Have your child choose a number from the box and then describe the picture. Have them give as many details as possible, who is in the picture, what are they doing, what else can you see, what shapes can they find in the picture, etc.

ACTIVITY 5

Finish the Story. Use pictures from magazines and tell a short story about the picture. Stop the story so that your child can continue it and make their own ending. You can also use this with your child's books. Stop the story a few pages before it ends and ask them how they think it should end. Let them know there is no right or wrong way for it to end, each person might have a different ending.

ACTIVITY 4

Role Playing. Make up cards with different activities. This can be geared toward whatever age or situation your child is currently going through. Cards can include: Playing with a friend, Sharing a toy, Arguing with a friend, Being the teacher, Being scared of something, Feeling left out, Going to a party, etc. Take turns playing the different people in the situation so that your child can get a feel for how all of the people may feel and look at situations from different points of view.

ACTIVITY 3

Play Action Charades: Make up cards with as many action words as you can think of: Run, Jump, Walk, Hopped, Ran, Skipped, Hurried, Tiptoed, Stir, Stretched, Rolled, Hit, etc. Make other cards with sentences, such as: "The boy ____________ to his friend's house." Have each person take one card from each pile and put the sentence together to act it out. Have everyone else guess what they are doing.

ACTIVITY 2

Play Feeling Charades. Make up cards with as many different feelings as you can think of: Happy, Sad, Angry, Excited, Bored, Scared, Nervous, Unhappy, Tired, Pleased, Interested, Uninterested, etc. Each person takes a card and acts out the feeling without saying anything. This is great for those that may have a hard time reading facial expressions.

ACTIVITY 1

Telling Stories. Cut out pictures from magazines and place them in a box. Take turns pulling out one picture and tell a story of what you think is happening in the picture. For older children, have the stories become more complicated. For younger children you can start with looking at the faces in the pictures and talking about what their facial expressions might tell you.

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