Learning Activities

You can help eliminate temper tantrums by creating a wish list with your child.

This activity teaches your child about cooperation, as you help her walk backwards by directing her vocally.

Follow the instructions to expand your child's vocabulary with this early childhood game.

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

Take your nose out for a walk. Explore your senses and keep track of the smells all around you!

Your child will have a great time writing crazy captions using some cutout magazine pictures and poster board.

Children can build their vocabulary with this game, which asks them to link their word to the previous person's word in the chain.

This science activity will help your child understand the concept of density and learn why objects sink or float.

This activity builds skill in shape recognition, but calls for lots of fun movement.

While playing outdoors, your toddler can make a nature bracelet, with the aid of some tape.

This word-recognition game also develops your preschooler's ability to recognize shapes and colors.

Here are instructions for a matching game for preschoolers, using numbers and objects.

See whether your kids can figure out this scientific trick. Why is one hand cold and one hand hot in this experiment?

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

You can make color cubes from milk cartons and colored construction or contact paper. Then use them in lots of fun games.

If you can get your child to stand still long enough, you can make a tracing of his shadow on a sunny day.

This old-fashioned rhyme still works to help build children's counting skills!

Hide numbers around your house, and have your preschool child find them in numerical order.

This skip-counting game is fun and makes it simple to learn new ways to count.