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Apple Pizza

Cooking teaches valuable lessons such as math and science concepts, fine motor skills, and language

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Aquarium

Encourage sensory exploration by making an aquarium.

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Baby Massage

A soothing activity for baby

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Baby’s Own Book

Make your own special book for your baby that introduces new people, objects, or concepts.

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Ball Drop

Your developing toddler is particularly vulnerable to toxic chemicals in certain plastics because he

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Banana Pudding in a Bag

Let your child help you make this recipe in a bag.

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Body Instruments

Show your infant that some of his body parts can be instruments.

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Box Car Fun

Make your own box car and have your child race around the house.

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Cereal Spill

Help build your child's fine motor skills by doing this activity with him.

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Clean Up Time Song

Introduce a song to make clean up time fun.

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Copy Me

When your baby is watching you, encourage her to copy you.

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Discovering the Usefulness of Containers

Activity of how you can use containers that are familiar to your toddler to support his learning

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DIY Dole Whip

Make your own frozen sorbet for a cool, refreshing, and inexpensive treat.

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Dump and Pour

Your child will love to fill items into a box and then dump or pour them out. Play this fun game wi

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Expressing Needs

You can use this activity to encourage your child to build his language skills and help your child l

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Family Display

Create an area to display photos of families in your program.

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Find the Sound

Create a hide and seek type game using an alarm clock or timer.

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Flower and Candle Breathing

Teach your child to practice deep breathing to calm her nervous system, reducing anxiety.

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Fruit Mosaic Pizza

Cooking allows children to experiment, ask questions, learn routine, and it builds their basic knowl

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Hand Washing Poster

Create a poster to remind your child of the hand washing process

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I Can Do It! (Copying animal movements)

Use a book to encourage movement

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Layered Yogurt Parfait

Use this delicious snack to introduce basic math skills such as patterning.

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Lego Flossing

A simple and fun way to expose your child to flossing.

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Let's Count

Strategies to use math talk with your infant.

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Let's Play Ball

This simple and fun activity helps introduce math and literacy to your little one.

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Let’s Brush

Make brushing teeth a habit and fun activity starting from when your child is young.

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Make Your Own Cloud Dough

Cloud dough has a fun texture and will hold its shape when molded.

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Make Your Own Drum

Engage your little one with music using things found around your home.

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Make Your Own Tent

Play make-believe! Provide your child with simple toys and props that he can use in a variety of way

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Mama or Papa Animals

Encourage movement by pretending to be an animal

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Mealtime Magic

During meals, turn the TV off and redirect your child by engaging him in what “special” food wil

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Monkey Bites

This delicious snack is easy and fun to make with your little one!

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My First Shape Container

As your child actively manipulates them, he is learning about each shape’s properties.

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My Turn, Your Turn

Use this game to model words and turn taking

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Name It to Tame It with a DIY Emotions Flip Book

You can support your toddler’s developing brain and ability to self-regulate with this activity

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Obstacle Course

Make an “obstacle course” for your baby out of large pillow and/or chairs.

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Ooh La La Oobleck (aka “Goop”)

This sensory activity encourages little ones to feel new textures

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Picture Gallery

Make a picture gallery with your child to develop language skills.

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Pull Up

Help your child start to pull himself up to stand.

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Push and Go

Introduce a push toy to allow your child to stand and hold the toy by its handle.

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Put-Back Potatoes

Have your children learn about food by using their senses: touch, small, taste, sight, and sound.

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Reading to Baby

Allow baby to see other baby's faces by choosing books that feature little ones

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Ready, Set, Crawl

Encourage your baby to crawl by placing him on his hands and knees and gently rocking him back and f

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Safety Hunt

Safety hunt around the home to reinforce safe behaviors

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Scooping Water

Children’s first learning experiences with water usually include all kinds of pouring.

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Seed Exploration

Toddler benefit from nature-based play. Try this seed exploration activity for a fun sensory experie

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Sensory Board

Create a board of various objects and talk to your infant about the items, using descriptive words t

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Side by Side

Help your child as she takes her first steps.

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Simple Paper Bag Kite

Help your child decorate a paper bag kite by using embellishments she chooses.

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Sock Tug

Play a mini tug-of-war game with your little one.

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Sounds and Rhythm

Let your child experiment with making different sounds.

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Stick Book

Make your own book

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Table Talk

Make mealtime a time for learning by including your child mealtime conversations.

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This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth

Develop cognitive skills by creating a toothbrushing chart and using words that teach the order of e

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This Little “Piggy”

Substitute your child’s name for “Piggy” in the following rhyme.

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Tofu Banana Pudding

Make this delicious and healthy pudding recipe with your child.

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Up and Down

Encourage your child's movement by playing an up and down game.

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Waiting Hands

Add communication skills when teaching turn taking by adding gestures and words.

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Watching a Toy Go Out of Sight

This interactive activity is a great activity that you can do with your infant to encourage him/her

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Water Play

Introduce water play to your young child.

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What Happened?

Help your baby learn cause and effect.

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Where is it?

Play a "where is it" game with your little one.

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Wondering about Birds with the 4E's

Draw on your child's interest by extending her learning

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You Did Something New Today

A song to build an infant’s self-confidence.

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