Early Childhood Activities

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

This paper heart craft is a simple Valentine's Day activity that gets kids to exercise their fine-motor skills. Make a paper heart craft with your child this February.

This heart chain will help spread the love on Valentine's Day. Help your child make a colorful heart chain for your home or classroom this Valentine's Day.

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Celebrate Groundhog Day with this cute groundhog pop-up toy. All you need is construction paper, a craft stick, and a paper cup to get started.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Cultivating a community of love, support, and trust in your family is important. Use this heartwarming activity to connect, have fun, and support your child’s social emotional health.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

Get your kindergartener involved in the kitchen by making healthy cupcakes loaded with veggies and protein in this fun cooking activity.

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?