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🔅 Recommended Daytime Activity
How do Josh and Blue receive calls from Steve and Joe? Here’s a clue… Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 144 years ago to help people talk to each other. The telephone changed the way people communicate. Thanks for doing your part, you sure are smart, Mr. Bell!
Look at Blue’s friend using a rotary phone in the picture above! This is a phone that people used before cell phones. It has a circle with holes for your fingers- when you turn the circle, it dials the number! Let’s use our phone to make “kindness calls” to cheer up someone we love!
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Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
Let’s play a game of telephone! Print easy-reader cards for kids and get inspired by watching these Blue’s Clues videos.
Words to Use
Simplify
Let’s pretend to call each other — using bananas or toy phones — and talk with each other to make each other smile.
Stretch
Before we have our first kindness call, let’s write down 3 words or pictures to help us remember what we want to say. Let’s try to make one kindness call every day this week to someone we care about.
Why?