Language Works

This activity builds children's language and early literacy skills.

Language Works

Children explore the letters of the alphabet while learning about construction.

Language Works

Explore the sounds and movement of different animals with your toddler.

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Our early childhood experts offer baby activity ideas to spend those precious moments together.

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Babies learn self-awareness in this easy to setup mirror game.

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Here's 10 ideas for fun and engaging playtime with your infant.

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Create a new baby toy with a recycled milk carton and scarves, ties or fabric. Quiet activity for a baby to practice how to focus on fun tasks.

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Infants learn about different sizes with a simple game.

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Infants learn memory and cognitive development with this fun rhyming song.

Movement

Use a blanket as a parachute, a fort, or a magic carpet in this simple movement activity promoting imagination.

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Children blow bubbles and listen for the "B" sound.

Movement

Children turn large boxes into imaginative structures.

Sensory Skills

Make a sensory box from easy to find household items.

Let's Read Together

Join Janette Seddion, a Bright Horizons education coordinator, as she reads and signs this beloved children's book.

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Babies listen to communication from others and learn to mimic sounds.

Sensory Skills

Children use craft sticks to explore letters, shapes, and buildings.

Movement

Using a large ball and rattles, develop coordination and communication of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

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Infants explore common household objects and build language.

Sensory Skills

Making a fine motor tactile box for infant and toddlers using household recycled items.

Music

A new song to sing to your baby. Watch "Had a Little Turtle" video then sing and make hand movements for music time at home with your baby.

Sensory Skills

Kids gain confidence and skills as they help at home.

Movement

Music and movement game encouraging development of phonemic awareness, rhyming, and movement.

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Activity ideas for families with young infants at home

Sensory Skills

Children explore plants and make leaf prints.

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Children use a house to learn about prepositions.

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Kids learn about patterning with transportation toys.

Music

Build connections with your infant or toddler through singing favorite songs.

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Help your baby learn identity and belonging with this lightbox and photo parent-led teaching activity.

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A clean paint activity for your baby.

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Learn simple mealtime vocabulary in American Sign Language (ASL).

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A metal bowl offers a simple, sensory experience for babies.

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Game supporting the learning of body parts, promotion of sense of identity and vocabulary development.

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The best way to teach your baby to talk is by narrating a daily routine. Describe getting baby dressed in this no-prep at-home learning activity.

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Children learn vocabulary of plants, flowers, birds, and animals with a fun art project.

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Make a picture book of familiar local images to teach children about their neighborhood

Art Smart

A no mess painting project for infants.

Movement

Children follow simple commands, singing and moving to the song Open Shut Them.

Sensory Skills

Paint chips teach children about colors, shades, sorting, and classifying in this sensory-skills building activity.

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Make a creative parking garage with a box and a tube.

Movement

Kids learn vocabulary of plants, flowers, birds, and animals with a fun art project.

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Children gain early literacy skills with poems and finger plays about home.

Movement

Interactive infant activity promoting relationship building and physical development as adult sings “Pop goes the baby”

Let's Read Together

Three reasons to read to your infant, along with three different reading positions.

Science Rocks

Make a hanging mobile made out of spoons for your infant to play with.

Sensory Skills

Children use sponges, cups, funnels, pipes, and other materials to explore water.

Language Works

Children play a fun rhyming and movement game.

Math Counts

Infants get early exposure to math and shapes with this safe and low-prep at-home learning activity.

Sensory Skills

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New tummy time activity for babies. Make this playspace with a hula hoop, yarn, and ribbon to encourage your baby to explore down on the floor.

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Children use their senses to explore LED lights and ice cubes.

Sensory Skills

Children explore wind and air and make a wind sock.

Movement

Babies build muscle and develop their bodies in this fun activity with lights and music in this low-prep parent-led activity.

Language Works

Sort and learned language skills as kids describe objects.

Music

Come sing along with Ms. Daisy, who shares two songs in Mandarin.

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Children learn vocabulary words for fruits, vegetables, and colors.

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Build language development with this easy to setup sock puppet activity

Sensory Skills

Infants explore textures through this activity that promotes sensory development as children interact with and observe their environment.

Math Counts

Allow your infant to explore measuring cups by offering measuring cups upside down, in a row and by size.

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An activity that builds memory, focus, vocabulary, and tactile awareness, as children find objects by touch.

Sensory Skills

Make different texture bags for your infant out of items like straws, cotton balls, and sponges.

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Learn sequencing and vocabulary with a folk story game.

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Explore transparency by putting objects under each overturned container and cup.

Sensory Skills

Children use unusual artistic perspectives to paint.

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Infant and toddler guessing game helping promote sense of identity and belonging.

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Children play a fun game to learn names of family members and friends.

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While enjoying some playful time with your infant, try out some of the following prompts and notice how your child responds.