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Explore Together (outdoors): Underground Environment
Have children investigate the soil outside and collect things in it they want to share with others.
Explore Together (outdoors): Visit a Community Garden
Take children to a community garden to let them observe growing plants.
Explore Together (outdoors): Visit Plants
Plan a visit to a fruit and vegetable farm. Allow children to freely explore the plants.
Explore Together (outdoors): Water Drops
Search outdoors for water flowing down or dripping off surfaces. Have children explore dripping water with their hands.
Explore Together (outdoors): Water Rivers
Make water rivers and streams of flowing water in the dirt and on other surfaces outside.
Face to Face
You and your baby have a lot to talk about! Sit face to face to start the conversation.
How Does It Feel?
Introduce babies to new and different textures as you explore natural and man-made materials and objects together.
Ice Art
Explore art and science with your child. See what happens when she paints a picture with frozen colored ice cubes.
Learn About Letters Together: “Here We Go Round the Alphabet”
Sing “Here We Go Round the Alphabet” and have children walk around a circle of the alphabet letters.
Let’s Pretend
Playing pretend games is a great way to learn and practice new words with your toddler.
Light Show
Go outside and explore light on a sunny day. Play shadow games and explore what happens when light passes through colored water.
Living Under Water
Help your child learn about animals that live in or around water by looking at pictures and imagining life under water.
Music Around the World
Listen to music from around the world together. Help your child compare the music to his favorite music or song.
Nature's Music
Sit quietly outside with one or two toddlers and listen to sounds together. Talk and sing about the sounds you hear.
Neighborhood Houses and Buildings
Take a walk with your child and talk about different shapes, textures, and materials you notice on the houses and buildings.
Packing for a Picnic
Planning a picnic together involves lots of early math concepts.
Plant Collage
Have children create collages using drawing materials and plant objects they collected from outside.
Plants Here and There
Point out different environments plants grow in when you are out and about—such as in the park, by a pond, or in the woods.
Play Together: Pig, Pig, Wolf!
Play the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” using words pig and wolf.
Play Together: Volume Control
Play a game with children where they raise and lower the volume of their voices. Use cardboard remote controls to adjust others’ volumes.