A fun activity we play with the Boy is Pictionary. He loves guessing what we’re drawing and is very proud of himself when he gets it right. I am always amazed that he even can come close to what I am drawing. Thankfully, talent is not a prerequisite when becoming a parent or else I would have been in trouble!
To play, simple use a white board, chalk board or markers/crayons and paper. Randomly draw objects, animals, shapes that your child may recognize and encourage them to identify. I found this especially helpful in encouraging my son to increase his words since he was a late talker.
Now, below is an example of some of the animals I draw for him to guess. Um, it is pretty interpretative. He, somehow, can guess them all now. Can you?
[...] my terrible drawing abilities, my kids like to play pictionary. We don’t play the traditional board game way, I just start to draw recognizable objects [...]