Social-Emotional

Children will develop positive relationships with others by participating in acts of kindness.

Language Works

A guided conversation with your toddler during snack while eating fruits and vegetables, expanding on vocabulary.

Let's Read Together

Celebrate diversity with Bright Horizons’ own Michelle Burgess, as she reads a book about a school that welcomes all children.

Language Works

A fun way for preschoolers to learn their letters playing alphabet bingo.

Language Works

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

Language Works

An interactive activity with your toddler, look through an animal book or puzzle and say what each animal is and make the animal sound.

Language Works

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

Social-Emotional

Young children use their imagination as they take on the roles of various animals.

Family Cooking

Make a quick snack for birds and watch them come to eat in this easy to follow recipe!

Family Cooking

Children learn safe cooking skills as they make healthy donuts out of apples and cream cheese in this easy to follow recipe.

STEM

An easy apple game to nurture children's observation and sense of smell and taste.

Movement

Promote development and learning by encouraging children to use large muscles to move and balance their own body.

Movement

Learn balance in this easy to setup movement activity

Social-Emotional

Help your toddler practice balance and focus in this outdoor or indoor learning actitvity.

Virtual Field Trip

Let’s observe Bald Eagle nests! Take a virtual fieldtrip using the American Eagle Foundation's online Eagle Cams to learn about this amazing bird.

Yoga + Mindfulness

Join us in learning this fun and easy mindful breathing exercise.

Family Cooking

Ingredients and directions to bake blueberry muffins with the whole family.

Movement

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

Math Counts

Children acquire an understanding of cause and effect in relation to shadows and light.

Language Works

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

STEM

Make a bowling alley with just a ball and plastic bottles.

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.

Social-Emotional

Toddlers & preschoolers explore movement and self-regulation skills through this interactive chalk obstacle course activity.

Social-Emotional

Explore clouds in this open-ended activity that promotes relationship building, creativity, and imagination.

Science Rocks

Clean color mixing in a ziplock bag, and teaches problem solving as children test different ways to make colors.

Sensory Skills

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

Art Smart

Draw a picture on white paper using a white crayon and paint watercolors on top of the drawing to reveal the image.

Movement

Dance with the family and learn new funky moves.

Sensory Skills

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

Science Rocks

Science meets art in this activity that teaches science concepts about space through a variety of hands-on activities.

Family Cooking

In this recipe children will count and measure fruit ingredients, observe them blend from solid to liquid and learn about healthy foods.

Language Works

Play pretend in this easy activity promoting memory and observation.

Let's Read Together

Music

Free activity to celebrate Earth Day at home with your kids. Make a "birthday cake" from clay or mud and sign a special song together.

Let’s sing! Get “hello mello” with Bright Horizons teacher Brandon, his guitar, and a sing-along about how nice it is to see friends.

Sensory Skills

Kids gain confidence and skills as they help at home.

Math Counts

Use balance and hand eye coordination to maneuver a ball into the hole in a box.

Art Smart

Learn how to make your own homemade bubble solution!

Art Smart

Learn how to make your own homemade finger paint!

Art Smart

Learn how to make your own homemade Dr. Seuss Oobleck slime.

Art Smart

Learn how to make homemade Play Dough

Math Counts

Toddlers and preschoolers learn number identification through this interactive math game.

Movement

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

Toddlers paint with frozen colored water.

Movement

At-home music activity for kids from Bright Horizons educators. Watch the video, sing and dance to with us to "If You're Happy and You Know It."

Language Works

Toddlers sing along at music time with this no-prep activity. This update to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" helps toddlers with memory and speech.

Sensory Skills

Children explore plants and make leaf prints.

STEM

Children explore volume by experimenting with boxes.

Language Works

Children use a house to learn about prepositions.

Language Works

Kids learn about patterning with transportation toys.

Music

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

Let's Read Together

Book recommendation by Bright Horizons educators. Watch or read "Library Lion" with your child. Pretend to be librarian with your own library at home.

Language Works

Toddlers have fun and practice listening and responding to words in this parent-led learning activity.

Art Smart

Open-ended art & sensory activity video teaches children how to make their own kinetic sand/moon sand.

Toward a Better World

Toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children make birdseed cookies.

STEM

Design rafts and experiment with buoyancy.

Language Works

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

Science Rocks

Science experiment for preschool and school age children which displays a physical reaction when mixing mentos and soda.

STEM

Children explore texture, shape, and size through mud play and natural materials.

Social-Emotional

Children will explore sound with a variety of materials while outdoors.

Language Works

A children's book read by Amy Berens

Art Smart

Toddlers explore nature through their senses in this open-ended art activity.

Let's Play

Rub crayons over paper and nature items to see what happens.

Language Works

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

Science Rocks

Go on a rock hunt introducing vocabulary like smooth, slippery, heavy, rough, cool, and warm.

Language Works

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

STEM

This stuff can’t make up its mind ... is it a liquid or a solid?

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.

Language Works

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

Social-Emotional

Children will use cutouts to change their perspectives.

Movement

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

Art Smart

Toddlers and preschoolers explore transportation, textures, and play dough.

Language Works

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

Let's Play

Fun indoor bowling using recycled bottles and a ball.

Math Counts

Help your toddler learn to count with this pipecleaner and egg carton activity. Kids learn number names and quanity in this parent-led activity.

Sensory Skills

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

Language Works

Children play a fun rhyming and movement game.

Let's Play

Toddlers will enjoy having a simple roadway to roll things, in this easy to setup activity.

Yoga + Mindfulness

Roll the dice and count the dots, then find the corresponding yoga pose and hold. Watch the free video to learn more yoga poses at home.

Sensory Skills

This simple sand and water activity keeps toddlers engaged and happy.

Let's Read Together

Book reading with Bright Horizons Senior Writer Julie Christensen of “Scarlette Beane” by Karen Wallace.

Music

Sing a song about the four seasons with Bright Horizons teacher Ms. Jenny.

Social-Emotional

Toddlers explore a variety of textures in this interactive sensory activity.

Language Works

Help your toddler learn language through this light and shadow parent-led activity.

Movement

Toddlers build muscle and develop their bodies in this fun activity with lights, scarves and dancing.

Let's Play

Make shadow puppets with your kids as a fun no-prep at-home learning activity.

Art Smart

Children use hands and fingers to creatively trace their shadow.

Science Rocks

Activity to do with toddlers at home designed to develop a sense of identity and belonging.

Language Works

Sort and learned language skills as kids describe objects.

Let's Play

Paint the sidewalk using biodegradable paint made out of cornstarch, water and natural food coloring.

Music

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

Language Works

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

Language Works

Build language development with this easy to setup sock puppet activity

Yoga + Mindfulness

Video for children teaching a variety of yoga poses inspired by space.

Let's Read Together

A children's book read by one of Bright Horizons education coordinators Gregg Millien.

Let's Play

Go on a spring scavenger hung around your house and then sort the items by category.

Art Smart

Children learn about symmetry by squishing paint together.

STEM

Design and engineer towers, buildings, and other fun structures!

Art Smart

Art project for toddlers from items already found in your house. Paint rocks or shells in this at-home art activity for kids.

Math Counts

Scavenger hunt meets numbers and counting with this fun at-home math game!

Language Works

Build a fort using chairs and blankets, then read books in it!

Science Rocks

Catch the sun and see how it shines through the different colors in your window in this fun art project!

Language Works

Open-ended dramatic play game for toddlers that supports language development and communication.

Language Works

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

Let's Read Together

Language Works

Learn sequencing and vocabulary with a folk story game.

Let's Read Together

A children's book read by one of our Bright Horizons education and training specialists, Chandler Bruning.

Social-Emotional

Children explore textures using their senses.

Math Counts

Challenge your toddler to match toys or items that are the same colors as the colors you choose.

Language Works

Toddlers and preschoolers learn about prepositions such as up, down, over, and around.

Sensory Skills

Children use unusual artistic perspectives to paint.

Social-Emotional

Children use sponges to move water while negotiating their movements.

Language Works

Children use water and paintbrushes to write notes and draw pictures.

Language Works

Build language with the classic children's song, Wheels on the Bus.

Let's Read Together

Books and stories invite us into worlds we can only imagine. But they also increase our understanding of expectations in our own world.

Language Works

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

Language Works

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

Math Counts

Window art for kids using different shapes of tissue paper and water.

Movement

Hide plastic eggs with written yoga poses in them. Hunt to find the eggs and hold the pose.

Yoga + Mindfulness

Movement video for children teaching a variety of yoga poses inspired by animals.

Virtual Field Trip

In this self-guided tour of Yosemite National Park, children will explore its many natural wonders

Music

Learn to sign and sing "You Are My Sunshine."

Art Smart

Children use creativity and imagination as they explore and interact with paint and light.

Let's Read Together

The story “The Big Umbrella” teaches about kindness and inclusion.