Learning Activities

Sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques," this toddler nursery rhyme is fantastic during storms.

Dress your preschool child in a bathing suit, and let her wash toys and plastic dishes outside.

Use this index card game to practice simple word recognition with your preschool child.

The Word Pyramid game is good for kids who have basic printing and spelling skills.

This game of solitaire involves removing the deck in pairs of cards that total 14. Can you do it?

Help your child develop math skills with these household counting assignments.

Be sure to perform actions that fit the words as you recite this toddler nursery rhyme.

Here's an activity that encourages your child to explore and invent movement.

Help your child match pictures of objects with their corresponding alphabet sounds.

Children can build their vocabulary with this game, which asks them to link their word to the previous person's word in the chain.

This science activity will help your child understand the concept of density and learn why objects sink or float.

This activity builds skill in shape recognition, but calls for lots of fun movement.

While playing outdoors, your toddler can make a nature bracelet, with the aid of some tape.

This word-recognition game also develops your preschooler's ability to recognize shapes and colors.

Here are instructions for a matching game for preschoolers, using numbers and objects.

See whether your kids can figure out this scientific trick. Why is one hand cold and one hand hot in this experiment?

Using balloons as flashlight filters, your kids can learn mixing colors and make a colored light show.

You can make color cubes from milk cartons and colored construction or contact paper. Then use them in lots of fun games.