Entertainment and Activities

Using a precut wood shape, your child can create a message clip as a gift for a favorite adult.

This card game works best with two to four children, and involves matching suits and numbers.

Building a house of cards is a much easier challenge if you cut slits in them.

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

A sunny spot and a homemade composter will make great soil.

Scatter the pennies over an open room, blindfold the children, and see who wins the rainy-day scavenger hunt.

Here's a list of great books no toddler should be without.

Paint directly on your toddler's hand to make an Thanksgiving day turkey stamp.

Your toddler can make a marbleized Valentine's Day card with tempera paints and a small rolling pin.

Food coloring will stain your toddler's fingers for a day, but his art will be shiny and beautiful!

In this rainy-day activity, your child must fall down when the music stops. It's even more fun with a group!

Keep your child occupied by asking her to sort a bowl of mixed pasta shapes.

This clean and quiet activity makes a great toddler game. See the yarn stick to the sandpaper!

Your toddler will love transferring the water from bowl to bowl in this sponge activity.

Your toddler may enjoy painting rocks, using them to make a shaker toy, or just dropping them in a bucket.

This activity demonstrates how plants drink water through their stalks.

Help your child create a time capsule to be opened next year – or ten years from now.

Help your child learn the alphabet by decorating letters with sparkly glitter.