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Bead Fun

In this activity, your child will develop her fine motor skills by stringing beads.

Color Squeeze

This activity helps develop and control the fine finger muscles to grip and control a pencil or crayon.

Cutting Straws

This activity lets your child safely practice using scissors (under adult supervision) to cut along lines you’ve made on straws.

Paint Time

This activity allows your child to practice painting while having fun.

Pillow Tracing

This activity helps your child develop fine motor skills while learning the shapes of different letters.

Scissor Time

This activity will give your child practice using scissors. Be sure to supervise all cutting activities closely.

Singing and Stringing

This fun activity starts with singing a familiar finger play song and adds a stringing activity that will get your child’s fingers moving in lots of ways.

Snappy Caps

This activity lets your child explore markers and develop fine motor skills.

Tell Me About It

In this activity, you will help your child build an awareness of language patterns, syllables and alliteration.

Write ‘Em Up!

This activity lets your child practice writing and drawing on a vertical surface, which will help reinforce the best hand position for writing.

Cup-O-Letters

Introduce letter names with this simple hide-and-seek game.

Fishin’ for Letters

This is a fun game to play that will help expose your child to the letter shapes, learn the letter names and hear the letter sounds.

Hall of Shapes

Help your child begin to notice the different shapes, lines and circles that appear in books and printed materials.

Is It a Shape or a Letter?

This activity will help your child recognize and distinguish between geometric shapes and letters.

Musical Eggs

In this musical activity, children will use musical plastic eggs to sing about letter names.

My Favorite Toy — The Box!

This is a great activity that you can use any time your child shows more interest in the box a toy came in than the toy itself.

Shopping for Letters

The next time you’re out running errands, plan for some extra time to be able to stop and look at the giant letters mounted on the front of the buildings.

Sing and Wash

Make hand washing more fun by singing the Alphabet Song together!

Stamp Your Letters

Let your child have fun exploring letters by using rubber alphabet letter stamps and an ink pad.

Stomp the Letter

This activity builds awareness of letters by having the child identify a letter on the floor and stomping on it.

The Letters on the Bus

In this activity, your child will sing the song The Letters on the Bus while holding an index card with one letter of her name.

Food Hunt

The grocery store is a great place to develop vocabulary and practice oral language skills.

Growing in the Garden

This activity involves including your child in yard work or planting outside the house while introducing new words.

Hello, Hello, Who’s Calling?

This activity will encourage your child to describe what he sees, express his thoughts and ideas and have fun talking on the phone with you.

I Remember When

In this activity, you’ll reminisce with your little one about a favorite experience from the recent past.

Let’s Go For a Drive

This simple activity will encourage your child to tell you about an amazing adventure she is about to take you on!

Minding Manners

Encourage your child to use polite words to show kindness and a respectful awareness, which will help your child learn how to get along with others.

Stretch That Thought

In this activity, you’ll build on your child’s ability to speak in short phrases by stretching those phrases into longer thoughts.

Teddy Bear Birthday Party

In this activity, your child will practice communicating using two- and three-word phrases.

What’s in the Bag?

This game lets your child practice simple oral language skills.

You’ve Got a Job to Do

This fun activity will give your child that special feeling of having a job to do while building vocabulary and oral language skills.

Animal Sound Basket

This activity will give your child fun practice in listening to and identifying animal sounds.

Cabinet of Curiosity

In this game, you'll combine a two-year-old’s love of games and natural curiosity to create a sneaky game that develops attention to language.

Do You Hear What I Hear?

This game will help your toddler develop his budding listening and sound discrimination skills.

Fill in the Blanks

In this fun activity, your child will hear a rhyming chant over and over and eventually be able to fill in the blanks when you leave out one of the words.

I See My Mouth Move

This activity will allow your little one to see how her mouth moves as she names objects you have gathered for her.

Round and Round You Go

In this activity, you will help your child build an awareness of language patterns, syllables and alliteration.

Song Cards

In this activity, you’ll create song cards and invite your child to choose a card to sing or say.

Stomp and Say

Use the names of favorite people, pets or things to introduce the idea that the words we say are made up of different parts.

Teach Me the Fun Way

In this activity, you’ll use rhyming books to help expose your little one to important phonological awareness skills in a fun and natural way.

Turtle Talk and Cheetah Chat

This fun game encourages your child to separate the syllables within a word and then blend them together again.