100+ Fun Learning Activities For Kids To Do At Home (2024)

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Make learning for toddlers and preschoolers more exciting with hands-on activities. Try out these fun learning activities for kids to do at home as you get ready for school.

It’s almost time for kids to go back to school!Learning doesn’t have to take place only at school, though.

Have fun learning about colors, shapes, letters, and words with these fun educational activities you can do at home.

100+ Fun Learning Activities For Kids To Do At Home

These are all easy activities that you can do at home with your toddlers and preschoolers.

Which activities will you try first?

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Fun Learning Activities For Kids: Shapes

Have fun learning about squares, circles, stars, and more with these fun shape learning activities for kids!

• Introduce toddlers to shapes with 10 fun shapes activities found on Hands On As We Grow.
• Create animals with shapes in azoo animals shape craftfound on A Blog From the Pond.
• Make more shape animalsas seen on The Educators’ Spin On It.
• Get active while you hunt for shapes with aphoto scavenger hunt,just like on Hands On As We Grow.
• Sort shapes with this simple card sorting activityfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Make starsout of toothpicks with this experiment from Rookie Parenting.

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Fun Learning Activities For Kids: Words & Letters

Have fun practicing ABCs, phonics, sight words, and spelling names with these easy and fun learning activities for kids.

No boring worksheets required!

• Check out these12 fun phonics activitiesfrom Hands On As We Grow to practice sounding out words.
• Use plastic Easter eggs for alettermatching activitywith an idea from Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary.
• Practice sight words with these 12 sight word activitiesfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• The Imagination Tree uses a basket for theirphonics sounds sorting activity.
• Practice beginning letter sounds with this beginning letter sounds sorting gamefound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Try50 incredible alphabet activities for preschoolers, found on Hands On As We Grow.
• Discover21 obvious and crazy ways to practice spelling wordsfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Try some more spelling word practice with these homemadespelling cardsfound on Confidence Meets Parenting.
• Practice writing names with these 35 name activitiesfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Find unique ways to write your child’s name with12 name writing activitiesfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Practice letters using shaving cream with this shaving cream activityfrom Hands On As We Grow.
• Get active while learning words with thisbean bag toss sight words gamefrom Hands On As We Grow.
• Practice writing words with this triple name tracing fun activity,from Hands On As We Grow.
• Hands On As We Grow makes Easter eggs into a fun sight word scavenger hunt.
• Play hide and seek in this funspelling gamefrom What Do We Do All Day.

Download the Learn a Letter Week of Activities

Add in a little counting and numbers practice with40 number activities for preschoolers.

Fun Learning Activities For Kids: Colors

Colors can be found all around us. Have fun exploring and learning about colors with these simple color learning activities for kids.

• Sort colors with this color sensory bagfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Experiment withcolor mixing eruptions with an idea from Learn Play Imagine.
• Go on a color huntwith your toddler, just like Busy Toddler.
• A DIY color matching matdoes double duty with fine motor skills practice, with a how-to from Hands On As We Grow.
• Make anupcycled clock color matching craftwith a guide from Hands On As We Grow.
• Sort colors with this sticky window color matching activityfrom Hands On As We Grow.
• Use fall leaves and acolor chartto make learning fun, as seen on Hands On As We Grow.
• Go on apreschool color scavenger huntas seen on Hands On As We Grow.
• Match colors while creating a beautiful rainbow with this Cheerios Rainbow craftas seen on Hands On As We Grow.
• Don’tstep in the lavaas you jump from color to color, with an activityfound on Hands On As We Grow.
• Match colors across the house with this connect the colors activityas seen on Hands On As We Grow.
• Make acolor matching collageas seen on Hands On As We Grow.

Download the Learn a Letter Week of Activities