In our bilingual journey we know that the best way to expose our kids to Spanish is to make it immersive and fun . That’s why this week’s activity round-up is dedicated to encouraging our kids to practice speaking Spanish and, of course, have lots of fun! The activities were created by bloggers who are also on a journey to raise bilingual and bicultural kids and have found a few tips and tricks along the way.
Learning through Play: CARS // Shapes
For The Love of Spanish shared a three part series of learning Spanish through play activities all about toy cars. We love this activity because of all the Spanish vocabulary and conversation that is flawlessly woven into a simple afternoon of playing with toy cars. Click here for the vocabulary chart and directions for this activity.
5 Games to Get Your Bilingual Child Talking
This post by In Culture Parent simply shares five kids games that encourage communicating in Spanish. The only thing you need is a bilingual brain to exercise and have lots of fun talking! Click here for the list of five games and instructons.
Playing board games to increase language expression in a foreign language
Maria of the Paris Busy Bee Blog shares her tips and experiences using board games to practice a target language. Click here for her story and tips.
Parts of the Body
Cecy of Spanglish House shared this fun activity with her readers with the purpose of getting our niños talking in Spanish. The activity is very hands-on and encourages kids to sing and talk in Spanish to learn the names of body parts. Click here for the activity instructions.
Puppets as Linguistic Catalysts
Multilingual Mama shared a story about the success of using puppets with her bilingual daughter to practice the target language, which in her case is French. Click here to read Multilingual Mama’s story.
