Real swift, you turned the burner on.

Don’t you know that could start a fire!?

Climb up on the roof? What, are you crazy or something?

12. Playtime indoors – toys, fun, games

stacking cups = a set of cups, each one smaller than the last, which can either nest or stack

blocks, building blocks (whether square or not) - used for construction, usually wooden

rattle - baby toy that makes noise when shaken

stacking rings - toy, a set of rings, each smaller than the last, that stack in order on a pole

floor puzzle - a large jigsaw puzzle meant to be put together on the floor

crayons - made of wax, for coloring

colored pencils - pencils with colored leads

coloring book - book with black and white drawings that a child colors in with crayons

construction paper – paper that is thicker than ordinary writing paper, coming in many different colors, and used very often by children in the US for crafts projects

arts and crafts – term used (e.g., by teachers) to refer to the part of a child’s education that involves making things with paper, modeling clay, etc, or by drawing or coloring

flash cards - cards with pictures, numbers, or sometimes math expressions such as “2+2" on them, for teaching children. The children have to name the object shown on the card, or do the addition “2+2=4", etc.

markers - felt-tipped pens for writing on paper or whiteboards

whiteboard - erasable board for writing on with special markers

Chalk board

magnetic letters / fridge magnets - plastic pieces shaped like alphabet letters, with magnets attached so they will stick to a metal surface like a refrigerator. To teach young children the alphabet

stickers= small adhesive pieces of paper with pictures on them, usually meant to be put on a piece of paper or in specially marked places in a sticker book

rubber duckie - typical bath toy, a duck made of rubber that can float

Simon says - game where the principal player says things like “Simon says close your eyes”, and a person loses if they don’t follow the instructions correctly

board game - indoor game involving a board, and often dice, or tokens, or “pieces”. Snakes and ladders is a common, easy one played by preschool children

slinky - toy made of plastic or metal, shaped like a very long helix. It can “walk” downstairs when started properly.

to play pretend, to pretend – refers to imaginary play, such as a child pretending that she is a dragon, or sitting in a box and pretending that it is an airplane

hide and seek, hide and go seek – game in which one child hides while the other(s) cover their eyes. Then they have to find the child that’s hiding.

Sentences

Don’t leave crayons on the floor where people will step on them.

Please put the caps back on the pens/markers when you’re done with them.

Don’t waste paper.

Want to play hide-and-go-seek? (also: “hide and seek”)

I’m going to count to ten. (Said while playing hide-and-go-seek)

Ready or not, here I come. (The standard thing you say after you’ve counted to ten and you’re going to go look for the child.)

Let’s play ring-around-the-rosie. (Where the children join hands in a circle. Uses a traditional English rhyme. They move around, and all fall down to the ground at the end.)

“Gotcha!” (slang- Any game where you have to catch someone, you say this when they’re caught)

“I’m just a pretend dragon.” (even though “pretend” is not really an adjective in English, children very often use it this way, referring to imaginative play)

Roll the ball. / Roll the ball to me. / Roll the ball over here (if you want the ball rolled across the floor instead of thrown through the air)

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