Cutting out Pictures

If your child is learning to read, take yesterday's newspaper and ask him to cut out three pictures he liked. Think together which word (noun or verb) is suitable for this picture. (Such a discussion can be very useful as preparatory work for teaching a child to read and write.) Then arrange your pictures with inscriptions on a sheet of paper in such an order that you get an interesting or funny sentence in its absurdity. Let the child come up with sentences using the words attached to the pictures. For example, if the pictures show a football player, an airplane and a travel bag, you can come up with the sentence: My magnificent airplane will take me to a football match.