Gifts are an opportunity to give a child who is learning Spanish a toy or game that encourages her to use the language in a new way. A new puzzle or toy can also be motivating and keep the process of learning Spanish exciting and fun. If possible, choose toys that can be used again and again in different ways. Repetition is important to language learning and it also makes the toy more cost-efficient than something that you use only a few times. These are a few reasonably-priced items that can be used for a variety of fun activities and with children of different language abilities.

In this online Spanish game for kids, children hear a phrase in Spanish and are given the words to that phrase out of order. They drag and drop the words to make the Spanish sentence that they heard. If the child makes a mistake, the word will not go into place and the sentence is repeated. There are images of each sentence behind the words, so even if all of the Spanish vocabulary is not familiar, the pictures help children understand the meaning of the sentence.

Congratulations to Luis Pescetti for his Latin Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album! He is such a talented performer – a wonderful way to bring Spanish, and music, to children. You can find a post I wrote recently about Luis Pescetti and music in Spanish for children here. Be sure to visit his website! It is a wonderful authentic language resource for teaching Spanish to children. Congratulations, Luis!