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

Happy and Sad Faces
Age 2 5 min

Happy and Sad Faces

Look at happy and sad faces, point to them, and name the feelings. Talk about what brings joy and what can help when someone feels sad.

Feelings & emotions

Tracing Big Circles
Age 2 8 min

Tracing Big Circles

Trace big circles with a finger and pencil, color round objects, and draw a circle.

Shapes

Trace and Count Numbers 1–3
Age 3 10 min

Trace and Count Numbers 1–3

Trace the numbers 1 to 3, count the ducklings, and color the number that matches each group.

Tracing worksheet

Color Matching With Sponges
Age 2 8 min

Color Matching With Sponges

Scoop colorful sponges from water and put each one in a matching container. Explore colors and movements through water play.

Hands-on activity

Fire Truck Puzzle
Age 2 10 min

Fire Truck Puzzle

Color a fire truck and put together a four-piece puzzle with help from an adult.

Picture puzzle

Find Soft Things
Age 2 8 min

Find Soft Things

Look around the home for eight soft things and mark the pictures you find. A gentle observation and conversation game to play with an adult.

Scavenger hunt

Trace Lines With Vehicles
Age 2 7 min

Trace Lines With Vehicles

Follow five vehicles to their garages by tracing dotted straight lines with a finger or crayon.

Pre-writing lines

Learning the Color Yellow
Age 2 8 min

Learning the Color Yellow

Color four pictures yellow, then look for yellow things at home with an adult.

Colors

Sort Clothes for Hot and Cold
Age 2 8 min

Sort Clothes for Hot and Cold

Sort eight clothing pictures into two groups: cold and hot days. A simple activity to enjoy with an adult.

Sort and classify

Count Ladybugs to 3
Age 2 8 min

Count Ladybugs to 3

Count six groups of ladybugs and circle the matching number with an adult’s help.

Counting

Match Farm Animals and Babies
Age 2 8 min

Match Farm Animals and Babies

Match each farm mom to her baby. With an adult's help, name the animals and notice how they look alike.

Matching

Chick and Flowers Coloring Page
Age 2 5 min

Chick and Flowers Coloring Page

A coloring page featuring a chick hatching among flowers. Children explore colors and make their own marks with crayons.

Coloring page

Bedtime Routine
Age 2 5 min

Bedtime Routine

A six-picture chart to follow the evening routine and mark each completed step.

Routine chart

Talking About the Beach
Age 1 5 min

Talking About the Beach

Look at a beach scene together and discover a sandcastle, a beach umbrella and more. A short activity for pointing and talking.

Picture talk

Vehicle Song
Age 1 5 min

Vehicle Song

Sing an original song and make sounds and movements for a car, train, airplane, boat, motorcycle, and truck.

Songs & fingerplays

Black and White Fruit
Age 1 5 min

Black and White Fruit

Show your child six black-and-white fruit pictures to look at, point to and hear named.

Picture cards

Age 1 5 min

Posting Colorful Pieces

A child puts large, colorful pieces through an opening in a box, exploring hand movements while hearing the names of colors.

Hands-on activity

Farm Animal Story
Age 1 5 min

Farm Animal Story

Look for a duckling on the farm in a short story with repeated questions, big pictures, and animal sounds.

Story & talk

Toy Clean Up Song
Age 1 5 min

Toy Clean Up Song

Sing a short, repetitive song while your child helps put away blocks, a book and a doll. The pictures show where each one goes.

Songs & fingerplays

Move Like Animals
Age 1 5 min

Move Like Animals

Show animal pictures and have fun copying their movements. Your child can walk, sway, crawl or move in their own way.

Movement & dance

Age 1 5 min

Sensory Play with Colored Ice

A short sensory activity to touch ice, watch colored water, and discover what happens when colors mix.

Sensory play

Farm Animals
Age 1 5 min

Farm Animals

Show your child large cards featuring eight farm animals and talk about the pictures together.

Picture cards

Ages 0–2 5 min

Object Permanence Box

Play hide-and-find with a shoebox and a large ball. Your child watches the ball fall and discovers where it went.

Hands-on activity

Diaper Change Rhymes
Under 1 year 3 min

Diaper Change Rhymes

Turn diaper changing into a moment of connection with short rhymes and gentle movements for your baby.

Songs & fingerplays