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Find fun, simple activities you can do with your child to support learning and school readiness.

Spending time together through play, reading, and everyday moments helps build your child’s language, confidence, and curiosity. These activities are designed to be easy to follow and enjoyable for both you and your child.

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Baby Massages

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationSocial and Emotional | Age Group: 0-3 months3-6 months6-9 months

Learning Objective: After bath time, give your baby a massage on her arms and legs while talking in a calm, loving voice and naming parts of her body.

Bean Bag Balance

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationPhysical Development | Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old5 years old

Learning Objective: Toddlers and preschoolers enjoy using physical skills such as walking, running, and crawling to play games. This activity encourages children to combine two skills by balancing a bean bag on different body parts as they move.

Body Part Rhyme

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationSocial and Emotional | Age Group: 0-3 months3-6 months6-9 months9-12 months12-18 months18-24 months

Learning Objective: Babies naturally love to hear rhyming chants, and this chant helps babies become familiar with common body parts. Face-to-face play also promotes bonding with a baby’s parent or primary caregiver.

Body Part Rock

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationSocial and Emotional | Age Group: 9-12 months12-18 months18-24 months24-36 months

Learning Objective: Your child will become familiar with her body parts by hearing a rhyme paired with gestures.

Card Slot Drop

Learning Area(s): Physical Development | Age Group: 18-24 months24-36 months

Learning Objective: This activity strengthens fine motor skills as the child manipulates plastic cards with his fingers and inserts them into a slot. This activity also encourages hand-eye coordination and dexterity.

Chasing Bubbles

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationPhysical Development | Age Group: 18-24 months24-36 months

Learning Objective: Your child will practice chasing, popping, and blowing bubbles with you while learning vocabulary words to describe these experiences.

Climbing In and Out

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationPhysical Development | Age Group: 9-12 months12-18 months

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will practice gross motor skills by climbing in and out of boxes, baskets, and tunnels.

Color Cards Match

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath | Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old

Learning Objective: Toddlers will practice recognizing, naming, and matching colors using colored cards.

Color Hunt

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationMath | Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old5 years old

Learning Objective: This activity encourages children to identify colors as they go on a color hunt to find objects.

Colored Ice

Learning Area(s): SciencePhysical Development | Age Group: 18-24 months24-36 months

Learning Objective: In this activity, you and your child will explore ice and water and their sensory properties.