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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.
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.
Figure It Out
Play games to help toddlers use and strengthen their reasoning skills and to help them put their reasoning into words.
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.”
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/l/)
Play a sound game to help children listen for and recognize the /l/ sound in the beginning of familiar words.
Let’s Laugh
Ask family members to share what makes their baby laugh. Make a book of “laughing baby” ideas and share it with families and colleagues.
Path Games, Board Games
Build a child’s strong sense of numbers and a foundation for math learning in later years by playing simple board games together.
Play and Explore
Guide a baby’s exploration—or just follow her lead—as she learns about her world with her eyes, ears, hands, mouths, and actions.
Play Pretend
Offer a collection of used clothes and props so children can pretend to be a family member, a favorite story character, and more.
Play Together: Clap Jazz Baby Rhythms
Read aloud a few spreads of Jazz Baby to children, emphasizing the rhythm of the words. Help children notice the rhythm and clap along.
Play Together: Flower, Fruit, Vegetable
Play a game of Duck, Duck Goose, but change the words to Flower, Fruit, Vegetable.
Play Together: Samantha Says (“Hh”)
Play “Simon Says.” as children repeat an action only when they hear a word beginning with the letter /h/ sound.
Recite Together: “Ten Little Monkeys”
Together recite the familiar chant “Ten Little Monkeys” using finger actions to help the children count down from ten.
Talk Together: “Three Little Mice”
Have children use their small motor skills as they recite a finger play about colors.
Word Play: Guess the Animal
Play a guessing game with children to help them review the letter sound /h/. Give children clues to help them guess the name of the animal.
Word Play: Rhyming Words #4
Play a rhyming game with children. Have them listen to pairs of words and identify which rhyme by clapping.
Word Play: Simon Says: /s/
Play Simon Says using words that begin with the /s/ sound.
Word Play: Tell Me What You Hear (/o/)
Sing the Tell Me What You Hear chant with children to help them identify beginning sound /o/.
Word Play: Tell Me What You Hear: (/q/ and /n/)
Do the word play “Tell Me What You Hear” to have children listen for words that begin with the /q/ and /n/ sounds.