Learning At Home Activities: ABC Day

Estimated time: 15-20 minutes, spread throughout the dayMaterials:Objects that start with theletter you choose!Subject: Language arts

Have your child choose a letter of the day! For example, if the letter was “s” you can eat sausage for breakfast and have strawberries as a snack! You can play softball, watch Sesame Street, and skip to the park to go on a slide!

Learning At Home Activities: Backyard Soccer!

Estimated time: 30 minutesMaterials:Soccer ball (or a similar ball) and sticks

Subject: Physicaldevelopment

Set up a backyard soccer game! Use sticks as goalposts and use any ball to play with! This is an easy and fun activity to keep children active!

Learning At Home Activities: Bathtub Animals

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Your child’s favorite stuffed animals and toys

Subject: Imagination

Have your child fill the bathtub with their favorite stuffed animals and toys. Supervise them as they let their imagination run free! Are they on a boat in the middle of the ocean? In a spaceship heading to Mars? Encourage them to think outside the box!

Learning At Home Activities: Bedroom Planetarium!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Toilet paper roll or aluminum can, scissors, and a flashlight

Subject: Science

Create your own planetarium in your bedroom! Cut holes into a toilet paper roll or aluminum can. Place a flashlight in the cylinder, turn off the lights, and look up to the ceiling! Have your child observe how many “stars” there are in their room and look for constellations!

Learning At Home Activities: Binoculars

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Toilet paper tubes, string, markers, glitter, and tape

Subject: Science

Create your own binoculars by taping two toilet paper tubes together. Decorate your binoculars with markers and glitter. Add string to use as a strap. Go on a walk! Ask your child to use their binoculars to see things that are far away.

Learning At Home Activities: Bird’s Nest of Sticks

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Sticks, leaves, seeds, and tape/glue

Subject: Science

Encourage your child to create their own bird’s nest out of sticks! Have them observe a real bird’s nest in your back yard or from a picture on your phone or computer. Gather small sticks around your back yard and neighborhood. Bend, break, and twist them into a small bowl. Ask your child what a bird might keep in their nest! Food? Leaves? Put your nest outside!

Learning At Home Activities: Block Sorting!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Legos or building blocks

Subject: Math

Use Legos or building blocks to encourage your child’s sorting skills! Ask them to observe the color, shape, and size of each block and sort them into groups. How many green blocks are there? How many small blocks are there?

Learning At Home Activities: Bobsled Racers!

1) Draw characters on a piece of paper and cut them out! Be creative! Are they a bobsled racer? A surfer?

2) Tape your character to the top of a toy car

3) Set up a ramp from cardboard tubes (could be from a doorknob or table to the floor!)

4) Race your cars!

Estimated Time: 15– 20 minutesMaterials:Paper, markers, scissors, cardboard tubes, and toy carsSubject: Science and ArtSource:Bobsled Racers

Learning At Home Activities: Body Tracing

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Large sheet of paper and markers

Subject: Art

Ask your child to lay on their back on a large sheet of paper. Trace around their body and have them stand up. Give them some markers and ask them to create a self portrait on top of the tracing. Have them observe their own characteristics. What color is their hair? What color are their eyes? What clothes are they wearing?

Learning At Home Activities: Bowling!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:6-10 toilet paper rolls or water bottles

Subject: Exercise

Turn your hallway or living room into a bowling alley! Substitute bowling pins for toilet paper rolls or water bottles!

Use a wiffle ball, bouncy ball, or tennis ball to see how many pins you can knock over!

Learning At Home Activities: Box Fort

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Cardboard boxesOptional blankets, lights, pillows, and booksSubject: Imagination

Use old boxes around your house to build a fort! Push and tape boxes together to create tunnels to get from one room of the fort to another. Add blankets, lights, pillows, and books for more fun!

Learning At Home Activities: Bozo Buckets!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Bowls, buckets, bins, or cups (4– 5)Ping-pong balls or bouncy ballsSubject: Science and exercise

Find 4– 5 bowls, buckets, bins, or cups and a few bouncy balls or ping-pong balls. Set up the bins in a line on the ground.

While standing in one place, try to get at least one ball in each bin. Place the buckets farther away for more of a challenge!

Learning At Home Activities: Bubble Wrap Road

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Bubble wrap and masking tape

Subject: Sensory Play

Use leftover bubble wrap to create a pathway around your house. Tape down the bubble wrap with masking tape. Have your child follow the path, stepping on as many bubbles as they can! Have them count how many bubbles they popped!

Learning At Home Activities: Build a Boat!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Aluminum foil, cardboard, tape, rubber bands, paper, plastic bags, water, bowl, and optional coinsSubject: Science

Encourage your child to build a small boat that floats in your sink! Use aluminum foil, cardboard, tape, rubber bands, paper, and plastic bags to create a boat that won’t sink. Encourage your child to make a hypothesis and test it out.

If their boat sinks, have them try redesigning their boat with new materials until it floats! See how many coins or small objects you can fit in the boat before it sinks!

Learning At Home Activities: Build a Cardboard City!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Cardboard boxes,construction paper, glitter,paint, tape, and glueSubject: Art

Decorate old cardboard boxes with markers, construction paper, glitter, paint, tape, and glue! Turn them into buildings. They could be a fire station, a house, a hospital, a school, or a store! Make a cardboard city for your stuffed animals and toys!

Learning At Home Activities: Build a Fort!

1) Place two chairs about 4 feetapart, with the seats facing awayfrom each other

2) Place a bed sheet over the twochairs

3) Secure sheet by placing a heavybook on the seat of the chairs

4) Add pillows, blankets, and lightsfor fun!

Estimated Time: 15-30 minutesMaterials:2 chairs1-2 bed sheets (depending on size of fort)A few heavy booksSubject: Imagination and science

Learning At Home Activities: Capture the Flag

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Two dishtowels

Subject: Games

Play a mini game of capture the flag in your house! Use two dish towels as flags. Have each player choose a different room of the house to hide their “flag” in. Once both players have hidden their “flags,” switch rooms and see who can find the other team’s flag first!

Learning At Home Activities: Car Wash!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Toy cars, water, and soapSubject: Imagination

Have a car wash in your bathroom or back yard! Find some toy cars that are safe to put in water. Show your child how they can use soap, water, and some towels to clean and dry their cars!

Learning At Home Activities: Cardboard Houses!

Use construction paper, markers, glue, and scissors to decorate cardboard tubes to look like tiny houses!

Estimated Time: 20– 30 minutesMaterials:Cardboard tubes (can use plastic bottles instead),construction paper, markers, glue, and scissorsSubject: ArtSource:Cardboard Houses

Learning At Home Activities: Cardboard Tube Chute

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Cardboard tubes, scissors, and marbles; bouncy balls or pom pom ballsSubject: Science

Use leftover cardboard tubes to create a ramp on a wall in your house. Cut up your cardboard tubes to create a pathway for marbles, bouncy balls, and pom pom balls to fall down. Show your child how they can put a ball in the cardboard tube at one end and it will appear again at the bottom!

Learning At Home Activities: Cereal Box House

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Old cereal box and scissorsOptional construction paper, paint, glitter, stickers, and tapeSubject: Art

Create houses for your figurines and stuffed animals out of old cereal boxes! Cut out doors and windows and cover your box in construction paper, paint, glitter, stickers, and tape! Does your house have a rooftop balcony? A swimming pool? Encourage your child to create their dream house!

Learning At Home Activities: Cereal Necklaces

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:String, scissors, and cereal (Cheerios or Froot Loops)Subject: Math

Create necklaces out of string and cereal (Cheerios or Froot Loops). Tie a knot at the end of a piece of string and encourage your child to start adding cereal pieces to their necklace. Practice counting skills with your child! How many pieces of cereal can you get on your necklace? Count to 10, 20, 30, and so on.

Learning At Home Activities: Chalk Obstacle Course

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Chalk

Subject: Exercise

Create an obstacle course made of chalk on the driveway or sidewalk! Create a start and an end. Draw squiggly lines and circles, marking places to run, hop, skip, and twist! Have them hop like a frog, wiggle like a worm, and leap like a leopard!

Learning At Home Activities: Charades!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Paper, scissors, and pencilsSubject: Imagination and Exercise

Play charades with your child! Cut out slips of paper and write down different things they can act out. These could be different foods, animals, utensils, kinds of furniture, people, songs, movies, TV shows, and bugs. Encourage them to act out the slip of paper that they choose with different body movements.

Learning At Home Activities: Chores Bingo!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Paper and markers

Subject: Chores

Create a bingo board based on chores or actions that you want to occur more frequently in your household. For example, create squares for when your child turns off the TV, when they wash their hands, when they read, when they wash the dishes, when they sweep the floor, and when they eat their dinner.

Learning At Home Activities: Clothespin Puppets

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Clothespins, markers, construction paper, glue, and/or paint.

Subject: Art

Make puppets out of clothespins! Use markers, construction paper, glue, and paint to decorate a clothespin into a person or animal! The end of the clothespin is the mouth of your character that opens and closes!

Learning At Home Activities: Color Run

Estimated time: 20 minutesMaterials:Masking tape and construction paper

Subject: Physicaldevelopment

Practice colors with your child! Using masking tape, attach different colors of construction paper to the walls. Have your child run and tap on the color you name! You can do the same with pictures of animals, household objects, and people in your family.

Learning At Home Activities: Colored Flowers

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Cup, water, food coloring, and a flower (pink, white, or yellow)

Subject: Science

Show your child how flowers and plants soak up water using food coloring, water, and a flower! Fill a cup with water and add drops of food coloring. Place a flower, preferably one that is white, yellow, or pink, in the cup and set it out overnight. Your child will be amazed in the morning to find that their flower has changed colors!

Learning At Home Activities: Connect the Dots

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Paper and markers

Subject: Math

On a piece of paper, draw dots in a 5 x 5 square. Play connect the dots with your child by taking turns drawing lines from one dot to another. The person who draws the last line to make a box wins that box. Keep playing until all the boxes are taken. Whoever has the most boxes at the end wins!

Learning At Home Activities: Cooking PB&J!

Have your child help you make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!

Teach them how fun cooking and responsibility can be by having them help you “cook” and clean up

Estimated Time: 15 minutesMaterials:Peanut butter, jelly, bread, and a butter knifeSubject: Cooking

Learning At Home Activities: Cooking Trail Mix!

Have your child help you make a fun trail mix snack!Combine chocolate chips, pretzel sticks, and marshmallows in a bowl.Ask your child how many marshmallows, chocolate chips, and pretzels you should put in! Ask them to help you mix it!

Estimated Time: 15 minutesMaterials:Chocolate chips, pretzels, and marshmallowsSubstitute your own ingredients!Subject: Cooking

Learning At Home Activities: Copycat!

Estimated time: 20 minutesMaterials:Optional broom, vacuum, wipes,and other cleaning supplies safefor childrenSubject: Social-emotional

Play a game of “copycat” with your child. Encourage them to copy your actions! Have them help you clean the house by copying your actions of sweeping, vacuuming, and wiping down surfaces.

Learning At Home Activities: Create a Positivity Jar

Estimated time: 20 minutesMaterials:Paper, markers/pencils, and a jar or containerSubject: The arts /social-emotional

Create a positivity jar! Give your child small slips of paper. Ask them to write or draw positive messages and images onto them. Place these slips of paper in a jar. When you and your family need some positivity, pull a slip of paper out!

Learning At Home Activities: Cup Game

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Three cups and a small toy

Subject: Motor Skills

Use three cups to play the classic cup switching game. Flip all three cups upside down and place a small toy under one of them. Move the cups around, making it harder for your child to know which one has the toy under it. Have your child guess which cup has the toy. This activity is beneficial for motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Learning At Home Activities: Cup Stacking!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:6-10 plastic cups

Subject: Exercise

Use 6– 10 plastic cups to stack into a pyramid. Turn it into a race! How fast can your child stack and unstack the cups without letting the tower fall?

Learning At Home Activities: Cup Tower

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:10-20 plastic cups

Subject: Math and Science

Use 10– 20 plastic cups and encourage your child to build a tower! How many different ways can your child stack the cups? Who can make the tallest cup tower?

Learning At Home Activities: Dancing Raisins

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Raisins, clear soda, and a cup

Subject: Science

Show your child how to make raisins dance! Fill a cup with a clear soda (like Sprite or 7up). Drop a few raisins in the cup. Have your child observe what is happening. Are they floating or sinking? Wait a few minutes and your raisins should start to dance! Experiment with different sodas. Which one works best?

Learning At Home Activities: DIY Wrapping Paper

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Paper, markers, paint, scissors, and tape

Subject: Art

Use large pieces of paper to create your own wrapping paper for gifts! Give your child paint and markers to decorate their paper however they want. They can add drawings, shapes, handprints, and lines! Once finished, have them help you wrap gifts with the paper!

Learning At Home Activities: Draw a New Animal!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Paper and markers

Subject: Imagination

Encourage your child to think of their favorite animals! Have them create a new animal out of their favorites and draw it. For example, if they like turtles, horses, and tigers, they could draw an animal with the face of a horse, the body of a turtle, and the tail of a tiger! Have them describe their new animal to you. Ask them questions about how it walks, eats, and speaks.

Learning At Home Activities: Drive-In Theater

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Laundry baskets or cardboard boxes, markers, and construction paper

Subject: Creativity

Create a drive-in theater in your living room! Have your children decorate laundry baskets or cardboard boxes into cars with construction paper and markers. Don’t forget to give your cars some wheels and mirrors! Pull your cars up to the TV and enjoy one of your favorite movies!

Learning At Home Activities: Egg Drop!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Eggs, cardboard, toothpicks, tape, styrofoam, and paper

Subject: Science

Have your child design a safe vessel for an egg! Use cardboard, toothpicks, tape, styrofoam, paper, and other objects to build your vessel and keep your egg safe! Test out your design by dropping your egg from the second floor of your house. If the egg breaks, encourage your child to change their design to keep the egg safe the next time!

Learning At Home Activities: Exercise Dice!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Paper, markers, and tape

Subject: Exercise

Create your own dice and roll them to determine what exercise you will do with your child. Cut out six squares and draw a different exercise on each square. These exercises could be jumping jacks, running in place, sit ups, skipping around the room, hopping up and down, or pushups. Attach the squares together using tape and roll your set of dice for a fun way to exercise!

Learning At Home Activities: Fairy Garden

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Popsicle sticks, glue, paint, sticks, and optional plants

Subject: Imagination and Creativity

Make a fairy/gnome garden in your backyard! Use popsicle sticks, glue, and paint to make a house, table, and chairs for your fairies and gnomes! Designate a place in your backyard to place your tiny house and furniture. Plant flowers and other plants around your garden. Be creative! Add a small stick fence for your magical creatures and some lights!

Learning At Home Activities: Fill the Bucket

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Buckets/bowls, a sponge, water, and a ping-pong/bouncy ball

Subject: Exercise

Place two buckets/bowls on opposite ends of your backyard. Fill one bucket with water and place a ping-pong/bouncy ball in the other. Have your child use a sponge to soak up water from one bucket, then run over and squeeze the water into the other bucket. Keep filling the buckets up until the ping-pong/bouncy ball floats out of the bucket! Who can fill their bucket the fastest?

Learning At Home Activities: Flip Book

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Post-its or stapled pieces of paper and a pen

Subject: Art

Encourage your child to create their own flipbook! Use post-its or stapled pieces of paper to create it. Have your child draw a picture on the first page. Then draw the picture again, only slightly different, on the next page. Do this over and over again. In the end, the picture should shift and move to create a movie on paper as you flip through the booklet.

Learning At Home Activities: Follow the Masking Tape Road!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Masking tape

Subject: Exercise

Create a path of masking tape around the floor of your house. Add chairs and other objects to the floor to make the path wind around your house. Ask your child to walk, hop, wiggle, and skip through the path!

Learning At Home Activities: Forky Family!

Toy Story inspired. Create your own Forky family!

1) Draw eyes with a marker on the head of a plastic spoon, fork, or knife

2) Wrap a pipe cleaner around your figure and bend it to make hands and fingers

3) Cut one popsicle stick in half and attach the two pieces to the bottom of your figure with Play-Doh to make feet!

4) Cut up small pieces of pipe cleaner to create the eyebrows and mouth of your figure. Use glue to attach them.

5) Enjoy your family of forkies!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Plastic forks, spoons, or knivesPopsicle sticks, markers, Play-Doh, glue, and pipe cleanersSubject: ArtSource:Forky Family

Learning At Home Activities: Fossil Feet!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Play-Doh or molding clay and a pan or baking sheet

Subject: Science

Teach your children about fossils by putting Play-Doh or molding clay in on a pan or baking sheet. Have your child step on the Play-Doh, creating a footprint! Ask them to observe the shape of their foot and show them images of real fossils!

Learning At Home Activities: Freeze Dance!

Estimated Time: 20-30 minutesMaterials:Music that you can pause and play

Subject: Music

Choose some of your child’s favorite songs! Some of these might be: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” or “Wheels on the Bus”!

Act as the DJ and ask your child to dance when the music is playing and to freeze when it stops!

Learning At Home Activities: Fun with Bubbles!

Create your own bubble wands with pipe cleaners and encourage your child to try to create different shapes out of bubbles!

Blow some bubbles! How many can your child catch on their hands, fingers, feet, toes, and head?

Estimated Time: 15-20 minutesMaterials:Bubbles and pipe cleaners

Subject: Sensory

Learning At Home Activities: Fun with Sticks!

1) Gather 10– 20 sticks of varying sizes from outside!

2) Stack the sticks carefully to create a tiny house! Be creative! Build forts, skyscrapers, and bridges!

Estimated Time: 15-20 minutesMaterials:SticksSubstitute sticks with pencils, books, popsicle sticks, and blocks!Subject: Science

Learning At Home Activities: Go for a Walk!

Take a walk around outside! Use one of these activities to encourage your child to explore the world around them!

Play a game of “I-Spy” by naming the color of an object you see while you are walking. Ask your child to guess the object by having them look for the color!

Ask your child to count the numbers of objects you see while you are walking! How many cars drive by? How many birds and squirrels are there in the trees? How many cracks are there in the sidewalk?

Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes

Materials: Just you and your child!

Subject: Exercise

Learning At Home Activities: Go on a Safari!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Stuffed animals, plants, and paper cutouts. Optional safari musicSubject: Imagination

Set up an indoor safari by placing stuffed animals, plants, and paper cutouts of trees and insects around your house! For more fun, search the Internet for some safari sounds to play in the background.

Guide your child around your homemade safari! Encourage them to point out what they see, hear, smell, and feel!

Learning At Home Activities: Go to the Beach! From Home...

Go to the beach in your living room or back yard!

Lay down a towel and relax with the sounds of the ocean from your phone! If outside, bring out the sprinkler or hose for fun with water!

Re-create a vacation you might have missed during this time.

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Towels, sunglasses, swimsuits, a cooler—anything you might bringto the beach!Subject: Imagination and play

Learning At Home Activities: Guess the Sound!

1) Fill portable coffee cups or closed containers with different household items● Some examples might be to fill them

with coins, M&Ms or candy, cotton balls, uncooked pasta, dice, water, rocks, marbles, sand, shredded paper, carrots, balloons, glitter, marshmallows, and jelly beans!

2) Have your child shake the closed container and guess what item is inside!

Estimated Time: 15– 30 minutesMaterials:Closed containers (portable coffee cups, empty plastic Easter eggs, storage containers, etc.)Various small household objectsSubject: Sensory Play

Learning At Home Activities: Have a Snowball Fight!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Socks and pillowsSubject: Exercise

You don’t need snow to have a snowball fight! Find a use for all of those unmatched socks by rolling them into balls. Have your children make forts out of pillows and cushions and have a sock battle!

Learning At Home Activities: Homemade Wagon

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Shoebox and string

Subject: Problem-solving

Tie a string to an empty shoebox. Show your child how their new “wagon” can be used to transport items around the house. They can move snacks from the kitchen to the living room, dish towels from the laundry room to the kitchen, or stuffed animals from the living room to their room. Show your child how they can be helpful around the house by moving items from room to room.

Learning At Home Activities: Ice Melting Challenge

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Cups and water

Subject: Science

Fill cups with water and place them in the freezer. Once frozen, take the ice out of the cup and give them to your child. How fast can they melt the ice? Help them problem solve. How can they melt the ice without moving it from the table. Should they use their hands to warm it up? Can they use their breath to make it melt?

Learning At Home Activities: Ice Sculptures!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Cup, water, spoon, and plate

Subject: Art

Fill a cup with water and put it in the freezer. Once frozen, place the ice cube on a plate and give your child a spoon. Encourage your child to create their own ice sculpture by chipping the ice cube away with a spoon! Have them try to create their favorite shape, animal, or food out of ice!

Learning At Home Activities: I-Spy Bag

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Ziploc bag, miscellaneous small objects, and rice, sand, or sugar

Subject: Sensory play

Fill a Ziploc bag with rice, sand, or sugar. Leave room to add a few small miscellaneous objects. Some of these might be puzzle pieces, pebbles, beads, coins, small figurines, small pieces of paper, ribbons, leaves, sticks, magnets, or dice. Create a list of these small objects and ask your child to find each of them in the bag by shaking, shifting, and moving the bag.

Learning At Home Activities: Jellyfish Watch!

The Georgia Aquarium has set up a live webcam of their jellyfish!

They also have webcams set up for their penguins, beluga whales, puffins, gators, sea lions, otters, ocean voyagers, and their coral reef!

Search for Jelly Webcam and enjoy the show!https://www.georgiaaquarium.org/webcam/jelly-webcam/

Estimated Time: 15– 30 minutesMaterials:Laptop or mobile deviceInternet connectionSubject: ScienceSource: Jellyfish Watch

Learning At Home Activities: Keep It Up!

Have children play “keep it up” with one or several beach balls! Try not to drop the beach ball. Who can keep it up the longest? Who can juggle the most beach balls?

Make it more challenging by telling them they are only allowed to touch the beach ball with different combinations of just their head, arms, or legs!

Estimated Time: 15– 20 minutes Materials:1 or more beach ballsSubject: Exercise

Learning At Home Activities: Laser Beams!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Masking tape and streamers or stringSubject: Exercise and problem-solving

Make a laser obstacle course in your home by attaching streamers or strings to the walls of a hallway in your home. Use masking tape to attach the streamers or strings in a criss-cross pattern. Have your child step and hop through the hallway without touching the lasers! If they touch the lasers they have to start over!

Learning At Home Activities: Leak Proof Bag!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Gallon-size freezer bag, water, and 4-5 pencils

Subject: Science

This magical science experiment requires you to fill a gallon-size freezer bag with water. Sharpen 4– 5 pencils and show your child how to stick them one by one into the bag, going in one side and out the other. The bag will not leak!

Learning At Home Activities: Lego Building Competition!

Estimated time: 20 minutesMaterials:Legos or building blocksSubject: Science / physical development

Using Legos or building blocks, create a building competition! Who can create the best tower, elephant, bridge, castle, or chicken out of blocks? Who can create them the fastest?

Learning At Home Activities: Letter Tracing!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Plate or tray, salt, sand, sugar, shaving cream, or whipped creamSubject: Motor skills and early literacy

Fill a plate or tray with salt, sand, sugar, shaving cream, or whipped cream

Give your child upper- and lowercase letters, sight words, and spelling words to trace on the plate or tray!

Learning At Home Activities: Letters to Yourself!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Paper, pencils, and envelopes

Subject: Writing

Encourage your child to think ahead! Have them write letters to their future self! If they can’t write yet, transcribe for them or have them draw pictures! They can open these letters when they finish elementary school, middle school, high school, and so on.

Have them write and draw about what they hope to accomplish and about what they want to be when they grow up! What are their favorite hobbies, sports, and TV shows? Who are their best friends? What words of wisdom can they offer their future self? Store these away for them to read in the future!

Learning At Home Activities: Line Art

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Paper and pencils

Subject: Art

Using paper and a pencil, encourage your child to create a drawing using only one line! Create faces, trees, and animals without taking your pencil off the paper!

Make it a two-person game! If a person lifts their pencil, their turn is over. The next person can change the drawing, but only if they keep their pencil on the paper. See what fun drawings you can create together!

Learning At Home Activities: Lip Sync Battle!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Music and some fun outfits!

Subject: Music

Make a list of your favorite songs to sing with your child. They could be nursery rhymes or pop songs!

Have a lip-sync concert in your living room or back yard. Dress up with fun hats, shirts, shoes, and costumes!

Learning At Home Activities: Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems!

Estimated time: 30 minutesMaterials:Pencil, paper, internet connection, laptop/phoneSubject: The Arts

Mo Willems, author and illustrator of the children’s books, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny, has created “Lunch Doodle” videos of his most popular characters! Use the link below and watch as he teaches you how to draw an elephant step by step!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23MoLunchDoodles

Learning At Home Activities: Make a Reading Nook!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Pillows, blankets, lights, and books

Subject: Reading

Encourage your child to read by creating fun space for them! Designate a corner of your house as a “reading nook.” Add pillows, blankets, and some lights. Encourage them to decorate it with “do not disturb” signs and fill it with their favorite books!

Learning At Home Activities: Make an ABC Collage!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Magazines, newspapers, scissors, paper, glueSubject: Alphabet

Grab some old magazines and newspapers and create a collage of the alphabet! Ask your child to go through magazines and newspapers to find every letter of the alphabet. Have them cut or tear out these letters and glue or tape them to a piece of paper. When finished, they will have an amazing collage of the alphabet!

Learning At Home Activities: Make Origami!

Use paper to create simple folding designs! Search for “Origami for Kids” for instructions for these neat ideas:

• Dog• Cup • Piano

Estimated Time: 15–30 minutesMaterials:PaperSubject: ArtSource:Origami for Kids

Learning At Home Activities: Music Makers!

Use objects resembling drumsticks to make a miniature drum set with pots and pans!

Re-create some of your favorite songs by copying the rhythms!● Some examples of songs might be

“Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” or “Wheels on the Bus”!

Estimated Time: 15– 30 minutesMaterials:Wooden spoons, sticks, and other objects similar to drumsticksPots, pans, paper or styrofoam plates,and cupsSubject: Music

Learning At Home Activities: Painting with Nature!

Estimated Time: 30 minutesMaterials:Sticks, leaves, paper, paint

Subject: Art and nature

Walk around outside with your child. Search for unique sticks and leaves in your back yard or neighborhood. Dip these objects in paint and observe the different shapes they make on paper!

Encourage your child to be creative with different painting utensils. Ask them to observe the shapes and textures of the leaves and sticks while they are painting!

Learning At Home Activities: Penny Stack!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Pennies or coins

Subject: Sensory

Play a minute-to-win-it game by seeing who can stack the most pennies in a minute! Make it more difficult by only using one hand! Who can stack the most without letting their tower fall over?

Learning At Home Activities: Pet Rocks!

Have your child choose a rock from your back yard or neighborhood.

Have them paint their new “pet rock” into anything they want! It could be a ladybug, giraffe, elephant, or a dog!

Estimated time: 20 minutesMaterials:Rocks, paint, paintbrushes

Subject: Art

Learning At Home Activities: Pictionary on the Driveway!

Grab some sidewalk chalk and play Pictionary on the driveway or sidewalk!

Draw animals and objects! Some examples might be dogs, cats, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, giraffes, elephants, forks, chairs, apples, houses, trees, cars, shoes, and flowers!

Encourage your child to be creative and celebrate their artwork!

Estimated Time: 20-30 minutesMaterials:Sidewalk chalk

Subject: Art

Learning At Home Activities: Play Memory!

1) Place 10 sets of two numbers face down on a table

2) Have your child flip over cards two at a time until they make a match!

Estimated Time: 20– 30 minutesMaterials:Deck of cardsYou can make your own cards with paper!Draw pictures on the cards instead of numbers!Subject: Memory

Learning At Home Activities: Play-Doh Maze!

1) Find a pan, mat, or clear surface2) Have your child use their engineering

skills to create the lines of a maze on a pan, mat, or other surface with Play-Doh!

3) Create circles out of Play-Doh to mark the start and finish of the maze

4) Once the maze is completed, have your child use a straw to blow a pom-pom, M&M, or another small round object around the maze! How fast can they do it?

Estimated Time: 20-30 minutesMaterials:Pan, mat, or other flat surfacePom-pom, M&M, or other small round objectStrawSubject: ScienceSource:Play-Doh Maze

Learning At Home Activities: Puppet Show

Estimated time: 20 minutesMaterials:Paper bags, old socks, paper cutouts, or popsicle sticksMarkers, glue, and paperSubject: The arts / social-emotional

Create puppets out of paper bags, old socks, and popsicle sticks. Use markers, paper, and glue to decorate your puppets and turn them into characters!

Have a puppet show! Have your child give each puppet a name and set up a place in your house to put on a show! This could be behind the couch or countertop, or behind a blanket!

Learning At Home Activities: Puzzles From Boxes

1) Cut up old cereal and food boxes to create puzzle pieces

2) Using the image from the box, have your child put the pieces back together!

Estimated Time: 15–20 minutesMaterials:Scissors, old cereal and food boxes with the logo image still on themSubject: SensorySource:Puzzles from Boxes

Learning At Home Activities: Rainbow Ice!

1) Mix food coloring into water2) Pour into ice trays or containers3) Freeze them into different

colored ice cubes4) Have your child paint with the

ice cubes on a piece of paper!

Estimated Time: 15-20 minutes, 3-4 hours to freeze ice cubesMaterials:Food coloring, water, ice cube trays or containers, and paperSubject: Sensory and ArtSource: Rainbow Ice

Learning At Home Activities: Sensory Rice Bin!

1) Place miscellaneous objects in a bin of rice or sand● These objects might be small

toys, figurines, balls, different types of uncooked pasta, marbles, candy, sticks, etc.

2) Give your child a spoon or scoop and encourage them to see what is inside the bin!

Estimated Time: 20-30 minutesMaterials:Rice, a container or bin, and miscellaneous small objects or toysSubject: Science and SensorySource: Sensory Rice Bin

Learning At Home Activities: Sort it Out!

1) Find groups of miscellaneous objects around the house● These objects could be

silverware, cereal, M&Ms, jelly beans, plastic dishes, toys, blocks, leaves, sticks, and straws!

2) Encourage your child to sort objects into groups by size, shape, color, texture, and taste!

Estimated Time: 15-20 minutesMaterials:Miscellaneous objects around the house

Subject: Sensory and math

Learning At Home Activities: Spoon Race!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Spoon, small round object (ping-pong ball, bouncy ball, egg, clementine, piece of candy, or an ice cube), optional pillows and cushionsSubject: Exercise

Create a competition with your child. Place a ping-pong ball, bouncy ball, egg, clementine, piece of candy, or ice cube on a spoon.

How fast can your child make it across the room without dropping the object on the spoon? Make the task more challenging by turning the room into an obstacle course with pillows or cushions.

Learning At Home Activities: Storytime with Astronauts!

Watch these bedtime story videos from astronauts in space! Listen to an astronaut read a story as Earth floats in the background. Search for “Storytime from Space”

“Max Goes to the Moon” (12 min.) “Rosie Revere, Engineer”(9 min.)

https://storytimefromspace.com/library/

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Laptop or mobile deviceInternet connectionSubject: Reading and scienceSource:Storytime from Space

Learning At Home Activities: Treasure Hunt!

1) Make a list of 10– 20 items around your house (i.e. spoons, chairs, plants, different foods, toys, etc,)

2) Find line drawings or pictures of these items to show your child

3) Have your child go on a treasure hunt to find them! Who can find the most? Who can find them the fastest?

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Various items around the house (silverware, furniture, plants, different foods, etc.)Pictures of objects (drawings or clipart)Subject: ExerciseSource: Treasure Hunt

Learning At Home Activities: Watch Puppies!

Visit the Puppy Playroom at Warrior Canine Connection and spend a few moments virtually cuddling some young animals.

https://explore.org/livecams/warrior-canine-connection/service-puppy-cam

Estimated time: 15–20 minutesMaterials:Laptop or mobile deviceInternet connectionSubject: ScienceSource:Puppy Live Stream

Learning At Home Activities: Watch the Clouds!

1) Lay a blanket down on your driveway or in your back yard.

2) Lay on your back with your child and have them count the clouds that pass by.

3) Have your child observe what the clouds look like and compare them to shapes!

Estimated Time: 20– 30 minutes

Materials:The sky and a blanket!

Subject: Science

Learning At Home Activities: Will It Float?

Estimated time: 30 minutesMaterials:A bowl or bin, water, and miscellaneous objects that are safe to put in waterSubject: Science

Fill a large bowl or bin with water. Gather a group of objects (i.e. figurines, balls, blocks, cars, ice cubes, leaves, rocks, and different foods) that are safe to put in water. Have your child guess which objects will float and which objects will sink. Have them test out their guesses by placing each item in the bowl or bin of water!

How many floated? How many sunk?

Learning At Home Activities: Word Bingo!

1) Create a 5 X 5 bingo board and fill each square with sight words● You can create your own using

pen and paper or find one online!

2) Encourage your child to get bingo by reading and sounding out each word.● You can increase difficulty by

putting more than one sight word in each box!

Estimated Time: 15 minutesMaterials:5 X 5 bingo board with sight words in each squareSubject: ReadingSource:Bingo

Learning At Home Activities: Writing Letters!

Estimated Time: 20 minutesMaterials:Paper, writing utensils, envelopes, and stampsSubject: Writing and drawing

Have your child make a list of the people they care about (e.g., friends, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents).

Encourage your child to write/draw a positive card for each person on the list and mail it to them! Teach your child about how mail works by having them address the envelope and place the stamp on it.

Learning At Home Activities: Yoga!

Go Noodle is a website dedicated to providing fun exercise and learning videos for young children. Here are links to some kid-friendly yoga activities!

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/live-in-the-moment

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/strengthen-your-focus

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/release-your-warrior-1

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/tune-in-to-your-world

Estimated Time: 15 minutes (Each video is 3-5 minutes long)Materials:A laptop or mobile deviceInternet connectionSubject: ExerciseSource:Empower Yoga