Draw your conversations

Have you ever played Pictionary, you know that game where you have to communicate a word with your team mate through drawings? Well, it is a personal favourite of mine. Every summer holidays I would badger my family to play with me. I loved it, and it turns out that communicating through drawings is a brilliant way to nurture your children's ability to express themselves. You don't, however, need the board game. All you need is some paper, all sorts of drawing materials and a little bit of imagination.

Activity: Take a large sheet of paper or other material to draw on, some pencils, markers, crayons or chalk and have a “conversation” with your child. The catch: You can’t talk or write words, you have to draw what you want to say. This might even turn into an ongoing visual dialogue or a pictorial story lasting several days. Ask everyone in the family to join in.

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