Fun Start

Give your child the best start in life with this fun, practical book. Packed with simple play activities to do with your child – there is one for every week from birth to age five – 'Fun Start' will help you maximize his or her emotional, intellectual and physical development. Each activity takes about 10 minutes and uses common household items.

All experts agree that the first 5 years of a child's life are the most important in terms of learning, memory, emotions and physiological responses. ‘Fun Start’ is every parent's answer to maximize the intellectual growth and motor skills of their child and give them the best start in life.

Carefully structured into weekly 10-minute activities – there is one activity for every week of every year of your preschooler's life – it shows you how to use common household items to help your child learn and grow.

Exercises and games include:
• The shoe box house
• Feely squares
• Funnel fun
• Sink or float
• Finger writing

About the author

June Oberlander is retired kindergarten teacher with over 22 years of experience as well as a mother of two and grandmother of seven. She lives in New Zealand with her family.