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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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Balloon Car

Learning Area(s): ScienceSensory and Art | Age Group: 8 years old9 years old10 years old11 years old

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will explore how the stored energy in an inflated balloon can power a homemade toy car.

Blindfolded Tasting

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationSensory and Art | Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old6 years old7 years old8 years old9 years old10 years old

Learning Objective: This mindfulness activity encourages your child to experience their food by touch, smell, and taste.

Body Scan

Learning Area(s): Social and EmotionalSensory and Art | Age Group: 4 years old5 years old6 years old7 years old8 years old9 years old10 years old

Learning Objective: Family members build body awareness by taking turns describing how a part of their body feels.

Building World Knowledge

Learning Area(s): Language and CommunicationReading and WritingMathScienceSensory and Art | Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old6 years old7 years old8 years old

Learning Objective: This video highlights the importance of building content knowledge around STEM concepts (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). We discuss different strategies to use with your child and provide examples of activities to do with your child to build content knowledge.

Buried Letters

Learning Area(s): Reading and WritingSensory and Art | Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old

Learning Objective: In this game, children will practice naming letters and their associated sounds through a game of finding buried letters. Working with letters helps children learn their names and sounds, which are important pre-reading skills.

Constellation Projectors

Learning Area(s): ScienceSensory and Art | Age Group: 5 years old6 years old7 years old8 years old9 years old10 years old11 years old

Learning Objective: You and your child will make a simple projector to view models of constellations.

Creating Art with Shapes

Learning Area(s): MathSensory and Art | Age Group: 4 years old5 years old

Learning Objective: In this activity, the child has the opportunity to be creative by using a variety of shapes to create art.

Feeling Faces Masks

Learning Area(s): Social and EmotionalSensory and Art | Age Group: 3 years old4 years old5 years old

Learning Objective: You and your child will discuss and describe situations in which both of you have experienced different emotions. Together, you will make “feeling face” masks to show these emotions. This activity will help your child understand and relate to his or her own feelings and those of others.

Find Something New

Learning Area(s): ScienceSensory and Art | Age Group: 4 years old5 years old6 years old7 years old8 years old9 years old10 years old

Learning Objective: This mindfulness activity encourages your child to be more aware of their environment, and take turns with you finding something new in a familiar setting.

Fingerpainting Fun

Learning Area(s): Physical DevelopmentSensory and Art | Age Group: 24-36 months3 years old4 years old

Learning Objective: Your child will practice fine motor skills through a mess-free version of fingerpainting, using paint in a plastic bag.