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    Play Activities for Kids

    • Child playing with cars and making a mess on the floor with a tray of millet
      Why I Let My Kids Make Big Giant Messes
    • Toddler hands playing with small pom poms and empty egg carton. Text above photo reads "Toddler 101: quick distractions"
      Distracting your Toddler 101
    • Kids playing with water cups and spoons on a white towel.
      How to Get Your 2 Year Old to Stop Whining
    • Paper roll cut into pieces with white ribbon threaded through and tied at the end with a knot in a square of cardboard. Text reads, "diy toddler lacing activity".
      DIY Toddler Lacing Activity for Little Hands with Big Dreams
    • Toddler dropping wooden craft sticks into a plastic container with a slot cut into the lid.
      Toddler Busy Activity: "Playing the Slots"
    • Toddler playing with toy vehicles in a set of plastic containers held together with blue tape.
      But It Can Just Be Whatever You Want It To Be
    • Two children dropping toy blocks into a hole cut in a cardboard box
      How to Get Siblings to Work Together (Brilliant Parenting Tip)
    • Child tying shoes with text overlay "Bunny Ears Shoe Tying Rhyme"
      Loose Ends: Teaching Kids to Tie Shoes
    • Stove and oven made from a cardboard box with toy kitchen gadgets sitting on top. Text overlay reads "easiest diy stove for pretend play."
      Recycled Kitchen for Indoor Pretend Play
    • Drawing compass on paper covered in penciled circles. Text overlay reads "compass drawing: mandala math art with kids."
      Compass Art Mandalas: Round and Round We Go
    • Child's hand holding plastic container under water to make bubbles form. Text reads, "bath bubble science."
      How Bubbles Are Made Science Experiment in the Bathtub
    • Pattern blocks set up in a muffin tin for a preschool geometry activity with text box that reads "preschool geometry activity."
      Playful Preschool Geometry Activity
    • Child painting vigorously with paint brush on chalkboard art with water painting.
      Painting With Water to Make Chalkboard Art
    • Float or sink experiment with child filling in worksheet.
      Float or Sink Experiment Instructions and Worksheet Ideas
    • Homemade dot to dot activity worksheets piled on table.
      Make Your Own Connect the Dots Activity
    • Collage of photos showing green scissors and strips of paper covered in lines; child using straw to blow scraps of paper and straws on table.
      Cutting Activity to Develop Fine Motor Skills
    • Child's hand moving yellow toy digger through a layer of beans in a large glass baking dish.
      Toy Digger Play: Dig and Scoop
    • Child using pipette to transfer water from one plastic container to another.
      Water Transfer Activity: Easy Boredom Buster for Kids
    • Diy road for toy cars made from large matte board. Toy vehicles sit on the black road.
      How to Make a Road for Toy Cars
    • Two photos of homemade sailboats made fom flower shaped foam, toothpicks and paper sails. They are Floating on water in glass baking dish.
      Easy Sailboat Craft and Science Project for Preschoolers
    • Clothespins hanging on string tied to a chair in a living room. One clothespin is holding up a large piece of yellow paper with "Uu"
      Hanging Up the Alphabet Fine Motor and Literacy Activity
    • Paper with numbered circles and beans for preschool counting activity, held down at corners with large Duplo blocks.
      Preschool Counting Activity (Bean Counting)

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