Let's Talk About Safety
Prep: 5 Minutes / Activity Time: 10-15 Minutes
You can help develop your child’s decision-making and problem-solving skills by talking about real-life situations that impact health and safety.
At-Home Activities for 5-Year-Olds
Counting Words
Prep: None / Activity Time: 5 Minutes
In this easy activity, your child will practice listening for individual words in sentences.
Healthy Habits
Prep: 2-5 Minutes / Activity Time: 15-20 Minutes
Healthy habits are an important part of a fulfilling life. Help your child make a creative reminder of the routines we follow to keep ourselves in good health.
Letter Bingo
Prep: 5-10 Minutes / Activity Time: 20-30 Minutes
When you make bingo cards with alphabet letters in the spaces, a game of bingo can entertain your child and help build letter knowledge.
Long Word, Short Word!
Prep: None / Activity Time: 5 Minutes
This easy listening game takes no prep time and can be played anywhere and any time you have a few minutes to spare.
Listen! Look! Splat!
Prep: 10 Minutes / Activity Time: 5-10 Minutes
Listen! Look! Splat! will motivate your preschooler to have fun with sight words. Sight words are words that appear frequently but that can't easily...
Giraffes Can Dance!
Prep: 2-5 Minutes / Activity Time: 15-20 Minutes
By the end of the book Giraffes Can’t Dance, everyone realizes that Gerald the Giraffe is an amazing dancer! To celebrate Gerald, help your child write an acrostic poem that describes him.
Letter Matching
Prep: 5 Minutes / Activity Time: 10 Minutes
Simple handmade materials are very effective in developing letter knowledge skills. This activity uses a homemade alphabet chart and magnetic or foam letters to provide practice in matching letters.
Right Now, I Feel...
Prep: 5 Minutes / Activity Time: 15-20 Minutes
There are so many feelings that can happen in a day. In this activity, your child will explore different emotions while also practicing beginning writing skills.
Illustrate the Poem
Prep: 15 Minutes / Activity Time: 10-15 Minutes
In this activity, your child will take a familiar poem and add illustrations to it. It might even become part of a poetry book created by your child.
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