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Babies
Put on a music or sing a nursery rhyme and help your baby clap hands, wiggle feet, bicycle legs. Show and help your baby to clap hands, wriggle fingers, twirl, and bob up and down. Read more!
Toddlers
Save clean containers of all shapes and sizes, like yogurt containers, margarine tubs, and plastic spice jars for your toddler to play with. Talk about which ones are big, and which are little. Encourage and help them put the small container inside the big container or to add items (like blocks) into the containers. Talk about when the items are in and when the items are out of the containers. Let them practice putting the lids on and taking them off. Read more!
Preschoolers
Low-adhesive tape, like masking or painters tape, can be used to make a road map in the living room. Working with your preschooler, ask where the roads should go. Will they go over a sofa? Under a table? Behind a chair? Once created, they can use toy vehicles, dolls or toy animals to follow the roads. Ask where the roads lead and what they will find at the end. Read more!
Kindergartners
Make giant ice-cubes by using clean yogurt, cottage cheese or sour cream plastic containers filled with water, then set into the freezer. Add a small item to the water filled container, like a small toy or other item. Have your kindergartner decide what item will be added. Is it too big or will it fit? Can they see the item once the ice is frozen? Once it's frozen, remove it from the container and use the ice block as ice puck. Kick or push the ice puck in the grass or hard area, like a sidewalk. How fast will it melt? What happens when it melts? Provide your kindergartner opportunities to touch the containers, feel the water before and after freezing, feel the weight and compare the containers empty, filled with water, and filled with ice. Read more.
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