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5-minute Meatball Skewers

Try making this meatball and veggie kebob for a delicious snack or meal.

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A Jar Full of Feelings

You can support your preschooler’s developing brain and ability to self-regulate by doing this act

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Accomplishment Jar

Identify and celebrate growth mindset by creating an Accomplishment Jar.

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All About Me Poster

A fun activity to help you share what makes your child special.

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Aquarium

Encourage sensory exploration by making an aquarium.

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Baby's Own Book of Emotions

Make a book with photos of familiar faces displaying different emotions to help your baby develop em

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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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Bean Bags

Create your own bean bags using household items.

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Big Steps

Act out the movements of “Big Steps, Little Steps” with your toddler.

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Board Game

Make your own board game.

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Bowling

Play bowling with your child using household items.

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Box Car Fun

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

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Box Car Fun

To introduce dramatic play with your infant, pretend to go on a car ride using a box or laundry bask

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Boys’ Day Carp

Celebrate Boy's Day by making a carp, which is a Japanese tradition.

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Brain Break Movement Dice

Doing a quick movement activity as a brain break can help your preschooler focus, listen and engage

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Bubble Wrap Jumping

This fun game can be played indoors on a rainy day to get your keiki to move his body in fun ways.

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Bubble Wrap Tapestry

Create a beautiful tapestry of colors.

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Bunny in a Garden Salad

Serve a delicious and healthy meal by making a bunny face out of salad ingredients

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Calming Sensory Bottle

An activity for a child dealing with strong emotions.

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Cardboard box hand drums

Create a hand drum with a recycled cardboard box that allows infants to bang or shake, stimulating t

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Cereal Box Board Game

Try the following games as you model turn taking, listening, cooperating, negotiating, and conflict

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Cereal in a Bottle

Fun game for your child to figure out how things work.

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Cereal Spill

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

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Climb the Mountain

Create a raised surface for your infant to climb.

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Clothespin Magnets

Have your child create clothespin magnets to hold things such as grocery lists or messages.

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Connect the Dots

Play connect the dots with your child.

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Crumpled Paper Ball Play

This fun activity focuses on the fine motor building blocks of stability and bilateral coordination.

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Cup Phones

Use cup phones to teach your child about communication.

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Desktop Easel Painting

Create your own desktop easel in order to support children who struggle with stabilizing their trun

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DIY Dole Whip

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

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DIY Shape Sorter

Shape sorting toys are great for encouraging a growth mindset when you encourage your toddler to wor

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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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Easy Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments

Make custom ornaments with your child.

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Egg Carton Caterpillars

Make a caterpillar with an egg carton.

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Emergency Supply Scavenger Hunt

Build a family emergency kit with your preschooler to help prepare for emergencies.

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Family Display

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

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Feed the Monster

As preschoolers start to interact and play with others, you can introduce and reinforce the concepts

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Feeling Dice Game

Games are a great way to build up your brain muscle!

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Feelings Face Matching Game

Make feeling face cards to identify emotions

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Finger Cymbals

Encourage your toddler to reproduce rhythms by clapping or tapping objects. Homemade instruments lik

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Flashlight Search

Play a fun game using household items, such as a flashlight.

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Float Your Boat

Support your toddlers development with this activity.

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Food Building Blocks

Teach your child about different foods with these fun building blocks.

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Foot Puppets

Use a puppet to express different emotions

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Friendship Behavior Visuals

Teach your toddler appropriate ways to interact with another child by providing visuals of safe, pos

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Fun with Movement

Movement activity to do with your child.

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Garlands (Lei) and Chains

Make a wonderful lei or garland using household items.

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Getting Lost

Make a tent using a large sheet to create a sense of "disappearing" for your young child.

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Growing Sunflowers

An introduction to gardening

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Guessing Games

Play a fun guessing game with your child.

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Hand Turkey

Make animals out of paper.

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Hand Washing Poster

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

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Handprint Art

Make flowers, wreath, and creatures using your child's handprint.

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Hanger Scale

Make your own scale to teach your child about the weight of different objects.

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Hardboiled Egg Experiment

Teach your child how brushing your teeth keeps surfaces clean.

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Healthy Food Collage

Help your child create a collage of his/her favorite fruits and vegetables.

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Hit the Letter/Number

Create a throwing game that helps your child develop gross motor skills and early literacy/numeracy.

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Holiday Colors

As each holiday or special celebration comes around, talk to your child about what it represents and

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Homemade Bubbles

Making homemade bubble solution

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Junior Fire Fighter

Teaching your child about fire safety is very important. Create a floor plan with your child and pra

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Kites

Make a kite with household items such as a plastic grocery bag and toilet paper tube.

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Landmarks, Bridges and Towers

Use photographs or books as inspiration for block play

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Leaf Sensory Bin

This nature-based activity encourages infants to use his senses to crinkle and crunch dry leaves or

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Lego Flossing

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

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Let's Put the Groceries Away

Let your child be hands on by having him help you put the groceries away after a trip to the market

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Let's Roll!

Let your child experiment with this activity.

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Let’s Pretend

Have your preschooler use his imagination and go on a pretend adventure together!

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Literacy Walk

Build literacy skills while on a walk in your neighborhood using Science of Reading strategies.

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Love Scavenger Hunt

Spend quality time with your keiki by putting together a scavenger hunt with assorted heart shapes.

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Magic Name

Toddlers develop alphabet knowledge when they are able to explore alphabets through sensory experien

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Make a Bedtime Routine Chart

Use a bedtime routine chart each night to remind your child of her routine.

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Make a Kiss Box

Teach your child about emotions by making this kiss box.

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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 Special Book

Make your own book about a special day or person.

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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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Make Your Own Wrapping Paper

Make your own wrapping paper using your child's handprints.

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Make-believe Play

Play "make-believe" with your baby.

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Mess-Free Finger Painting

This finger painting activity creates “safe” areas where a child can play independently yet alon

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Mobiles

Make a mobile with your child.

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More Fun with Movement

Movement activity to do with your child.

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My Body Puzzle

This activity is a fun way to have your child identify their body parts and make them feel unique an

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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 Worry Monster

Giving anxiety a name can help children identify fears and learn to be the boss of it.

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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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Panpipes

Create a Panpipe iinstrument using straws of different sizes.

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Paper Cup Telephone

Have fun making a telephone with your child and help build listening and communication skills.

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Paper Dolls

Make your own paper dolls.

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Paper Plate Umbrella

Make your own paper plate umbrella.

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Parachute

Providing access to activities that promote cooperative play and support interactions helps to build

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Picture Frames

Have your child choose a special photo and make a frame for it.

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Picture Gallery

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

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Pin Drop

Fun activity using items in your home, such as clothespins and containers.

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Pinwheels

Make a pinwheel using household items such as paper and chopsticks.

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Placemats

Make your very own placemat.

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Play Dough

Make your own Play Dough.

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Play-Doh with Play-Doh Touch

Add a technology component to your child's play dough creation

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Playground Fun

Helpful tips on taking your child to the playground.

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Popular Pals

Preschoolers hear and play with sounds in words through singing and by playing rhyming games.

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Pull Up

Help your child start to pull himself up to stand.

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Puppet Theatre

Create a space where your child can extend his play with puppets

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Puppets

Make several puppets and perform a puppet show together.

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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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Puzzles

Making a puzzle with your preschooler is a fun way to help build fine-motor skills.

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Rainbow Cloud

Activity with keiki to help with patterning, fine motor skills, and art exploration.

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Read with Me

Helpful tips on introducing books to your toddler.

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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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Red Light, Green Light, and Yellow Light Too!

Teach your child safety by playing this interactive game.

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Rollercoaster

Build this roller coaster with your child and watch his curiosity and imagination soar.

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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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Soap Bubble Art

Make bubble art with a straw and liquid soap.

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Sock Puppet

Make your own sock puppet.

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Sock Puppet

Puppets are a great way to build your child's oral language development.

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Sock Tug

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

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Sponge Play

Fun activity using household items, such as a sponge.

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Stick Book

Make your own book

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Storm in a Bottle

A creative way to reuse empty bottles to create something interesting and engaging for your child.

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Swat the Fly

A fun active game for preschoolers

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Tape Walk

Show your toddler how to walk on the line, putting one foot in front of the other.

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Teach Your Child How to Trade

Trading teaches children how to use their words to engage in conversations with friends and is the f

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The Reading Puppet

Learn how to make a reading puppet

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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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Thumbprint People

Fun art activity to do with your child.

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Tippy Toes

Show your child how to walk on tiptoes.

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Tissue Box Ukulele

Make an ukulele from household items such as a tissue box.

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Turn the Page

Modify books to make it easier for your child to turn the pages. This helps with the development of

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Two Little Mynah Birds

Teach your toddler nursery rhymes with motions that emphasize the simple order of actions, such as

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Up and Down

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

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Use of Tools

Make a child-safe work bench with a small hammer or rubber mallet, golf tees and foam.

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Visual Routine Chart

Visual routine charts help young children understand what is happening throughout their day and redu

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Water Play

Introduce water play to your young child.

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Where is it?

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

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Wind Sock

Make your own wind sock.

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Wrap It Up

This DIY activity uses a sensory item to encourage your infant to stretch and reach, challenging her

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