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Literacy & Language activities
Playful literacy activities that help toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners fall in love with words. Children explore letters, beginning sounds, rhymes and stories through tracing, games and picture talk. Every activity includes simple prompts so parents and teachers can grow vocabulary and early reading skills in just a few minutes a day.
45 activities
Activities
Match Community Helpers and Tools
Match each community helper to something they use at work. Talk together about people in your community.
Matching
Halloween Friends Coloring
A coloring page with a friendly ghost, a pumpkin, and a smiling bat. Children can explore colors and practice hand movements.
Coloring page
Fruit Skewers
Use a picture recipe to wash, choose and taste fruit. A grown-up makes the skewer and removes the stick before serving.
Cooking together
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
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
Follow five vehicles to their garages by tracing dotted straight lines with a finger or crayon.
Pre-writing lines
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
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
A coloring page featuring a chick hatching among flowers. Children explore colors and make their own marks with crayons.
Coloring page
Bedtime Routine
A six-picture chart to follow the evening routine and mark each completed step.
Routine chart
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
Sing an original song and make sounds and movements for a car, train, airplane, boat, motorcycle, and truck.
Songs & fingerplays
Black and White Fruit
Show your child six black-and-white fruit pictures to look at, point to and hear named.
Picture cards
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
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
Show animal pictures and have fun copying their movements. Your child can walk, sway, crawl or move in their own way.
Movement & dance
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
Show your child large cards featuring eight farm animals and talk about the pictures together.
Picture cards
Diaper Change Rhymes
Turn diaper changing into a moment of connection with short rhymes and gentle movements for your baby.
Songs & fingerplays
Kitchen Sensory Basket
A baby who can sit explores large kitchen objects while an adult names what the baby touches, sees and hears.
Sensory play
High Contrast Ocean Animals
Show your baby six black-and-white ocean animals and talk about them using short phrases.
Baby look cards