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Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Making Pancakes

Help your young child follow a sequence of steps by making pancakes and learn a bit about cooking chemistry.
Publication Date: 10/14/2021

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Counting Birds & Other Things that Fly

Get ready for the Great Backyard Bird Count with this Discovery Play Activity!
Publication Date: 2/14/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Making Patterns with Beads

Explore making patterns with this Discovery Play Activity.
Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Let's Talk Patterns

Explore patterns with this Discovery Play Activity
Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Kitchen Band

Publication Date: 3/31/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Sorting Leaves

Help your child observe and identify similarities and differences of leaves by comparing and contrasting their shape/color/ size/texture.
Publication Date: 4/14/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Making Donuts

Help your young child follow a sequence of steps by making donuts and learn a bit about cooking chemistry.
Publication Date: 5/31/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Making Ice Cream!

Help your young child follow a sequence of steps by making ice cream.
Publication Date: 7/29/2021

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: String Telephone

In this activity, children can learn about how vibrations are made and how the sound is produced.
Publication Date: revised 2/28/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Walking Rainbow

Help your child recognize that things move at the nano level.
Publication Date: revised 3/21/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Blocks

Publication Date: revised 3/31/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Meteorites & Craters

A science discovery play activities about meteors and craters.
Publication Date: revised 5/10/2021

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Outdoors

Get outdoors with this discovery play activity.
Publication Date: revised 5/2/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Playing with a Ball

Publication Date: revised 5/3/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Peek-a-Boo

Playing peek-a-boo supports concepts like object permanence and predicting patterns, as well as social exchanges and social-emotional development.
Publication Date: revised 5/3/2022

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Color Hunt

Scavenger color hunt is a fun activity for children to do at home.
Publication Date: revised 5/5/2021

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Nature Scavenger Hunt

Going for a walk or hike is a great opportunity to get exercise and make observations in the environment.
Publication Date: revised 5/5/2021

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Gardening

Help your child recognize and understand that plants grow when they receive the right amount of sunlight, food, and water.
Publication Date: revised 7/21/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: What Makes a Shadow?

Help your child discover shadows and how to create them.
Publication Date: revised 7/21/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Let's Go to the Moon!

Cultivate your child's computational thinking and math skills with this out of this world activity.
Publication Date: revised 7/21/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Paper Airplanes

Help your child develop their engineering skills with this paper airplane activity.
Publication Date: revised 7/31/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Tinker Box

An inventor's box is a container of various materials for the creation of something new.
Publication Date: revised 7/31/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Coding with Lego Blocks

Children can create, build, and imitate structures AND put together Lego block patterns and sequences.
Publication Date: revised 8/9/2023

Discovery Play Activities with Your Young Child: Sink or Float?

Help your young child recognize the density and buoyancy of objects.
Publication Date: revised 9/19/2023