Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Music for Learning Recommended Reading Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Peek-a-boo! By Rae Pica An Activity for Preschoolers Babies don’t know a thing about camping out, but they sure love to play peek-a-boo. You can add a “camping” theme to this popular game by hiding under a blanket – as though it were a tent. Curriculum Area Sensory Development and Science Before You Start Sit facing your baby, and drape the blanket over you. Let's Begin 1. Play Peekaboo! Disappear and reappear as long as your baby stays interested. Then, if she’ll let you, drape the blanket over the baby instead and continue the game. Furthermore Object permanence is the phrase used to describe the baby’s ability to realize a hidden object still exists. Depending on your child’s developmental stage, he may or may not be ready for this realization. But, either way, he’ll still enjoy having you place a favorite stuffed animal or toy under the blanket and then having it reappear. You can tell whether or not the baby has achieved object permanence by watching to see whether or not he seeks out the toy on his own.   Small blanket Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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