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Learning activities for kids

Printable worksheets and hands-on ideas for ages 0–6 — each with learning goals, step-by-step instructions and teaching tips.

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100 activities

Subtract With Pictures
Age 5 15 min

Subtract With Pictures

Count pies and fruit, trace the cross-out marks, and find out how many are left on the party table.

Picture math

Count Stars and Planets
Age 5 20 min

Count Stars and Planets

Count five groups of stars and planets and write how many are in each group. Explore numbers from 11 to 20 with adult support.

Counting

Find Rhyming Words
Age 5 15 min

Find Rhyming Words

Children listen to picture names and circle the word that rhymes with the first picture in each row.

Rhyming

Match Vehicles to Initial Letters
Age 5 15 min

Match Vehicles to Initial Letters

Match six vehicles to the letters their names begin with. Practice recognizing letters and listening for beginning sounds.

Matching

Missing Vowels in Fruit Names
Age 5 15 min

Missing Vowels in Fruit Names

Name six fruits and write the missing vowel in each word.

Missing letters

Ocean Animals
Age 5 20 min

Ocean Animals

Find six ocean animals in an 8×8 word search, with pictures to help children read the words.

Word search

Sight Word See
Age 5 15 min

Sight Word See

Read, trace and find the sight word “see”. Then copy a short sentence about a cat.

Sight words

Draw a Weekend Memory
Age 4 15 min

Draw a Weekend Memory

A journal page for drawing a favorite weekend moment and sharing where it happened, who was there, and how the child felt.

Journal page

Story About Fear and Courage
Age 4 15 min

Story About Fear and Courage

A story about a little seed who feels afraid of something new. After listening, children talk about feelings and who can help them.

Story & talk

Walking Rainbow
Age 4 15 min

Walking Rainbow

Watch colored water travel along paper towels from one cup to another. Children predict, observe, and draw what happens.

Science experiment

Dinosaur Movement Die
Age 4 15 min

Dinosaur Movement Die

Make a paper die, roll it and move like a dinosaur. A playful way to explore movement together at home or in a group.

Roll and play

Feelings Bingo
Age 4 15 min

Feelings Bingo

Draw face cards and find the matching feelings on your bingo card. Talk together about how people may feel.

Bingo

Complete the Butterflies
Age 4 15 min

Complete the Butterflies

Complete the missing half of each butterfly, then color the two butterflies to match.

Draw the other half

Count Space Objects
Age 4 15 min

Count Space Objects

Find rockets, planets, stars, astronauts and moons in space. Count each group and record how many you found.

I spy and count

Vehicle Picture Sudoku
Age 4 15 min

Vehicle Picture Sudoku

Complete a 4×4 picture sudoku with a car, bus, airplane, and boat. Cut and glue the pictures so each row and column has one of each vehicle.

Picture sudoku

Count and Graph Fruit
Age 4 15 min

Count and Graph Fruit

Count apples, bananas, bunches of grapes, and strawberries. Color the graph to find out which fruit appears most.

Count and graph

Halloween Witch Maze
Age 4 10 min

Halloween Witch Maze

Help a friendly little witch find her way to her pumpkin cauldron in a Halloween maze.

Maze

Square and Rectangle Shapes
Age 4 15 min

Square and Rectangle Shapes

Trace a square and a rectangle, color familiar objects, and draw an example of each shape.

Shapes

Rainbow Color Board Game
Age 3 15 min

Rainbow Color Board Game

Roll the color die and move to the next matching space. A playful way to recognize colors and practice taking turns.

Board game

Lion Mask Craft
Age 3 15 min

Lion Mask Craft

Color a lion and curl paper strips around a pencil to make its mane. With an adult's help, turn it into a stick mask.

Craft template

Rhyming Animals and Objects
Age 4 10 min

Rhyming Animals and Objects

Match five animals to objects whose names rhyme, and play with the sounds of words.

Rhyming

Pumpkin Counting Fingerplay
Age 3 10 min

Pumpkin Counting Fingerplay

An original fingerplay for counting down from five to zero, with a paper pumpkin for each finger.

Songs & fingerplays

Adding Fish to 5
Age 4 15 min

Adding Fish to 5

Count two groups of fish, put them together, and write the total in five simple addition problems.

Picture math

Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing
Age 4 15 min

Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing

Cut and paste the pictures to discover the butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly.

Sequencing