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Different Ways to Play

Help children master new skills, remember new ideas, and investigate the world. Find opportunities to include new concepts, ideas, and words in their play in different ways.

Disappearing Objects Show

Invite children to put on their own magic show. Help them make connections to the book Abiyoyo.

Dress Up and Pretend

Play pretend! Help your child work out feelings and emotions, develop creativity, and more as you act out different family roles together.

"Dub Cubs" #2 (BTL game)

Invite children to play the interactive rhyming game, Between the Lions “Dub Cubs.”

Everyday Objects Are Fun Toys

Plan and build with boxes, tubes, containers, and other everyday objects together to help children develop language, art, math, and engineering skills.

Everyday Toys

Toys don’t have to be fancy or store-bought to bring hours of entertainment for your toddler.

Explore Together (indoors): Voice Volume

Have children focus on exploring volume and timbre with their voices, and then create patterns of sounds for others to repeat.

Families

Have children find pictures and create families.

Figure It Out

Play games to help toddlers use and strengthen their reasoning skills and to help them put their reasoning into words.

Fish for Letters (down)

Display the down word card and identify the letters in the word. Let children take turns fishing for the letters in down.

“Fish Swish” #2 (PEEP game)

Play the PEEP and the Big Wide World interactive game “Fish Swish” to help Quack figure out how many balloons he needs for his fish friends.  

Flashlight Games

Play flashlight games with toddlers to help them build language skills. Spotlight and name an object in the room and then talk about it.

Flower Shop

Help children create a flower or garden shop. Model the roles of a florist and a customer.

Garden Shop

Help children set up a garden center shop. Have children take turns role-playing as a gardner, a clerk, and a customer.

Hardware Store

Set up a pretend hardware store with tools and building materials. Talk with children about what tools are needed to build certain things.

Hide and Seek

Play hide-and-seek games with babies to help them learn that things and people exist even when they can’t be seen.

In the Mirror

Give a baby a mirror and join him in the fun. Make silly faces, clap to a tune, point out body parts, or watch as he babbles to his new “friend.”

Join the Band #1

Invite children to form their own band, like Violet in the book Violet’s Music.  Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments.

Join the Band #3

Invite children to sing, dance, and play along with recordings of children’s songs.  Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments in their band.

Kitchen

Invite children to pretend cook and bake a favorite recipe or a recipe from the book Chicks and Salsa. Then serve it to friends and teach them how to make the recipe.

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