Search
Found 1793 results. Showing 44 of 90 pages.
Music Around the World
Listen to music from around the world together. Help your child compare the music to his favorite music or song.
Music Makers
Hum, sing, whistle—what other ways can you make music? Try simple, homemade instruments, too!
Music Patterns
Play a musical pattern on toy instruments and have children say the pattern aloud with you as well as on their own.
Musical Murals
Play different types of music and have children paint to the music. Display the paintings and the names of the artists.
My Family Book
Create a book of favorite people for each baby. Use photos of their families and friends. “Read” the book together by talking about the pictures.
My Favorite Sound
Have children draw a picture that features their favorite sound and then dictate or write a description.
My Favorite Veggies
Have children draw, dictate, or write their own books about their favorite vegetables.
My Garden
Children act out planting and tending a garden. Encourage them to use props as they plant and care for their garden.
My Home
Have children draw pictures of the inside or outside of their homes. Let children draw, write, or dictate a caption to put under their drawings.
My Important People Tree
Create a family and friend tree to help your child recognize the most important people in her life.
My Kind of House
Invite children to draw the house they would like to build. Have them dictate or write labels or captions.
My Own Ramp
Have children create a portable and decorative ramp out of various materials. Discuss the explorations children have done with ramps.
My River Story
Help children draw, dictate, or write their own books about a river.
Name Game
Give children boxes of uppercase and lowercase letters and ask them to match the letters to their names.
Neighborhood Houses and Buildings
Take a walk with your child and talk about different shapes, textures, and materials you notice on the houses and buildings.
New Flavors
Try a food your child has never had before. Talk about how it tastes and find out where and how it’s grown.
New Friends
Have children decorate a cardboard box and fill it with things they like to do and things their friends might like to do.
Night Scenes
Look at and talk about some of the illustrations in Night in the Country. Ask children to draw a scene that includes soft and loud sounds.
Nighttime Sounds, Morning Sounds
Listen to and identify sounds with your child at bedtime and in the morning. Describe how they are the same or different.
Noisy Reading!
For active toddlers, find books that that they can touch-and-feel, scratch-and-sniff, and lift up flaps and windows.