Activities For Young Children

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.

• America’s Test Kitchen: This website has a collection of more than 150 recipes, experiments, hands-on activities, and quizzes for children.

• The Crayola Experience: At-home activities for kids.

• Find a park in Arlington
• Accessible playgrounds in the DC metro area: Inclusive playgrounds, kids of all abilities can enjoy!
• Playgrounds in Northern VA

• Fun and effective ways to read with children
  • Maneras divertidas y eficaces de leer con los niños
• Video: How to Read With Your Child

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​.

• Washington, DC is full of fun, free activities for families.