Opposites Placemat Quality:
The placemats are made of durable vinyl. Use your placemat for mealtime and just wipe clean with a damp cloth.
Teaching Opposites Placemat Awards:
It is not surprising that the educational placemats have won “Dr. Toy Best Classic Toy Award" and “Parents' Choice Gold Award.”
As a parent and former teacher, I am always looking for quality educational products to increase my children’s intelligence. Our family loves our collection of educational placemats.
The placemats are highly durable and educational. My daughters are always kept busy while I prepare dinner or empty the dishwasher.
The whole family uses our placemats for mealtime!
Here are some questions to ask your children while looking at the Opposites Placemat:
- Where is the dirty pig?
- What is the opposite of dirty?
- Is the elephant big or little?
- What is the opposite of big?
- What is the opposite of dry?
Here are a few activities to help you teach your children about the Opposites:
Teaching Children Opposites: Make your own flip book
Make your own opposites flip book. You will need index cards, hole punch, two pieces of card stock, four metal clasp rings, magazine, coloring pages or pictures of objects.
First, cut out about eight set pictures of opposites. For example: I cut out large flower and a small flower. Next, glue a large flower on one index card and small opposite flower on another index card. If you have a copy machine at home enlarge or shrink the image. Your children may want to color the opposites if you are using coloring sheets. Collect seven other sets of opposites.
You can either use this as memory game or continue to follow the directions to make it into a flip book. Place the opposites in the first pile and the opposite in the second pile. For example: the large flower went into pile one and the small flower in pile two.
Place the two piles of cards side by side. Cut out a back and a cover the size of the two cards together. For example, when using cards measuring …. X ….. Use a card measuring ….. x…. for the front and back cover.
Decorate the cover for your opposites book. Don’t forget to include your book’s title and author!
Now you are ready to bind your book. Punch four holes in the book, two in each set of index cards to make it easy for flipping and keeping your cards in place.
Have fun reading your opposites book flipping to find the matching opposites.
Teaching Children Opposites: Make up a story
Have your children help you make up your own opposites story. You start the story and then pause and let the children tell you the opposite of the object.
Teaching Children Opposites: Opposite at mealtime
Set the table using opposites. Give yourself a large plate, large cup, and large silverware. Be sure to find small cups, plates, and silverware for the children.
Then serve hot and cold food. You can even serve big and small sandwiches! Mention the glasses being empty or full. You can make the milk dark chocolate or light chocolate. You can also talk about if the dishes are clean or dirty.
See what else you can find at mealtime that can be opposites. Have fun with this opposites mealtime activity!
Teaching Children Opposites: Read a book about opposites
Here are a few stories we enjoy reading about opposites:
Opposites by Sandra Boynton
Olivia’s Opposites by Ian Falconer
Teaching Children Opposites: Find the opposite
Pack about ten pairs of objects in a suitcase that are opposites. Have the children close their eyes and pick an object out of the suitcase. Next, have the child with his or her eyes open find the object that is the opposite.
Here are a few of the objects I placed in our opposites suitcase:
Long and Short Straw
Big and Small Paper Plate
Large and Small Hair Bow
Empty and Full Water Bottle
Fast Bunny and Slow Turtle
Dark and Light Paper
Teaching Children Opposites: Opposites Lunch
Make an opposites lunch. Serve your preschool or school-age children a large portion warm of macaroni and cheese with a small pile of cottage cheese. For their fruit, serve cold grapes.
Give your children two cups, one full and one empty. You can talk about opposites: warm and cold, empty and full, large and small. You can continue this at dinner - serve a lot of pasta with a couple of meatballs. You may want to use a large plate for yourself and a small plate for your children.
Your children will have so much fun eating their opposites lunch.
Have fun teaching children opposites!
Nancy Murphy
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