BiMoo table cloths and placemats with washable markers User Guide
- June 5, 2024
- BiMoo
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table cloths and placemats with washable markers
User Guide
“This tool is great for kids because they learn through play.”
Sonia Paré, special care counselor
BiMoo tablecloths and placemats stimulate the 4 spheres of overall child
development: language, cognitive, socio-affective, and motor skill development
(fine and gross).
Thanks to their illustrations, colors, and terms in French, English, and
Spanish, they help widen the child’s development and teach them how to
categorize by theme. The child will gain new knowledge in a playful manner.
Through learning and social interactions, the child will experience success
and as a result, develop their self-esteem.
Stakeholders (in daycares, schools, or professional settings) can work with
these eye-catching tablecloths and placemats in large groups, subgroups, or
for one-on-one work. they’re stimulating for children of all levels of
development.
Cognitive-Linguistic
Categorization
Ask children open-ended questions and get them to ask you their own questions:
find animals that fly, that have blue on them, etc.
Association
Ask children to place toy animals on the placemat or tablecloth’s matching
animals. To increase the level of difficulty, place some animals in the wrong
place and ask the child to correct them.
Differences and Similarities
Using real (fruits or vegetables) or plastic objects, ask children how they
are different than or similar to those on the tablecloth or placemat.
Spatial organization
Have children place objects ABOVE, BELOW, TO THE RIGHT, TO THE LEFT
(laterality), and NEXT TO (etc.) each other.
Ask the child to write (with a washable marker*) the color of an image above
or below it.
Counting and Colors
Ask children to count the animals, how many have wings, how many BiMoo logos
are on the tablecloth or the placemat etc.
Ask children to find 2 animals that live in trees, 1 animal that crawls, how
many animals roar, how many vegetables are green, etc. Ask children which
numbers are blue, which have red, etc.
Sentences with Who
Mainly using the emotions and jobs tablecloths, ask children:
- Who extinguishes fires?
- Who is excited, sad, happy?
- Who takes care of animals?
Tell me a story
Ask the child to tell a story with one or more pictures on the tablecloth or
placemat and work on comprehension (inference).
Ask the child to tell you what they know about this image, about the lion or
tyrannosaurus, etc., and to enrich their knowledge, ask them: Where does this
animal live, what does it eat?
Pronunciation – Syllables – Phonetics
Ask children how many syllables are in words: KI-WI, CU-CUM-BER, TRI-CE-TOPS,
and get them to pronounce words with 2, 3, 4 syllables, etc.
Get them to pronounce words with “B,” “D,” “P,” “T,” and complex consonant
clusters like “TR,” etc.
Find the image with the sound “B,” “P,” etc. Work on the pronouns “I,” “you,”
“my,” and “your”: I am angry, you took my toy.
Work on sentences: subject, verb, complement. For example, The jellyfish is
pink, and the string beans dance together.
Practice reading and writing French, English, or Spanish words. Ask the child
to read the words, spell the letters of the words, and trace the letters on
the tablecloth or placemat with a washable marker*
Verb tenses
Ask children to create sentences with different verb tenses:
- The antelope is eating a flower.
- The pirate will open the treasure chest.
- The policeman caught a thief.
Socioaffective
Taking turns, children must name and mimic their favorite animal or the job
they want to have in the future, etc.
Ask children to create a story as a group with the pictures on the product.
With the parachute game, help children wait their turn, be close to one
another, and touch other children.
Emotions tablecloth
Help children work on empathy and conflict resolution by asking them to name
the emotion they each feel and why.
Mimic emotions with children like play Using mirrors, get children to mimic
the characters on the tablecloth.
Ask children to draw their own emotional monster or to draw the mouth that
matches their mood of the day.
Crisis (losing or taking control)
Put the emotions tablecloth on the child’s shoulders and ask them to look at
the little emotion monsters and find the one that looks most like them right
now.
Then, ask them to point out and name the emotion they feel in order to soothe
them and draw the situation on the tablecloth. This will help them put things
into perspective nd look back on the situation in order to find solutions.
Fine and gross motor skills
Fine motor skills
Ask the child to rewrite the word below the word on the tablecloth. Draw on
the tablecloth or color the pictures with washable markers*.
*We used quality washable markers, but we do not assume any responsibility for their use on our products.
The child can choose an image and recreate it as a craft:
Because children with language disorders need a model, the illustrations on
the tablecloth can help them draw and tinker.
Gross motor skills
Twister: Show children the body parts by playing the Twister: Put your LEFT
hand on the broccoli, put your RIGHT foot on the carrot, etc.
Parachute: In a circle, get the children to hold the tablecloth and
imitate an animal on the tablecloth one at a time.
Imitation games alone or in groups: Ask children to choose an animal and
when they name it, all the children must imitate the animal.
Role-playing games: Pretend to be a doctor, an astronaut, etc.
As a group, get the children to hold the tablecloth in a circle, then get them
to move, jump, change places, pass under the tablecloth, stand on one foot,
etc.
Imagination
Developing creativity and imagination is essential for young children, it also
allows them to develop their personalities and assert themselves. To do this,
we have designed several tablecloths and placemats that are fun and thought-
provoking.
The “Cats and dogs” tablecloth and placemat contain blank bubbles to let the
child’s imagination run wild about the thoughts of their favorite animals.
Some bubbles are filled in to set an example and give children ideas.
Teaching difference and inclusion
Our Professions tablecloth is perfect for this! To show children that we are not all the same and that everyone is different, we included characters with different skin colors: White, matte, etc as well as a person in a wheelchair to instill inclusion.
All the activities listed are for guidance only, let your imagination and
creativity run wild and have fun!
This document was developed in collaboration with a special educator, a
daycare educator, a teacher, and a language worker.
© Solutions éducatives BiMoo Inc. 2019 All rights reserved
All rights relating to the texts, and graphic material (photographs,
illustrations, images, and BiMoo characters) are the property of Solutions
éducatives BiMoo Inc.
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References
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