Activities For Young Children

Cooking With Your Kids

With your close supervision, cooking can be a fun, engaging way for children to develop skills such as language, numerical concepts, motor control, self-regulation, and cooperation. It’s also a great way to get sensory input.

This website has a collection of more than 150 recipes, experiments, hands-on activities, and quizzes for children.

Art

At-home activities for kids.

Find a Park or Playground

in the DC metro area: Inclusive playgrounds, kids of all abilities can enjoy!

Storytime

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Quiet Time

Children and parents need some quiet time each day to recharge and relax.? Here are some quiet play activities:

Looking at books (together and alone)?
Coloring
Play-doh
Puzzles and block building
Pretend play with stuffed animals, dolls, trains, cars, or kitchen items for “playing house”?
Consider creating a quiet space for kids? with calming activities in a basket in a calm corner in the house?. You can build a makeshift tent with blankets and pillows or just pillows. Make it inviting and peaceful?. This is not an area of punishment but an area to seek peace and control?.

Activities in Washington, D.C.

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