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Early Childhood
Activity Bank
Sue LaBella, Education World's early childhood editor, has created hundreds of activities for use across the year and the curriculum. Click any of the links below to scan her list of activities by subject or topic.
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Activity Bank
By Month
Would you prefer to see this long list of activities grouped by month? Go to our Activity Bank By Month archive. There you will see activities grouped under the following headings:
January Activities
February Activities
March Activities
April Activities
May Activities
June Activities
Summer Activities
Back-to-School Act.
September Activities
October Activities
November Activities
December Activities
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Activities by Subject
The Arts
Fitness
Health & Safety
Language/Reading
Math
Science Activities
Social Studies
Activities by
Popular Teaching Topics
Animals
Recipes
THE ARTS
A Special Fish (Art)
Seeing Sea Stars: Two Activities
Under the Sea
Watch Turtles Hatch
Make a Turtle
Create Starry Art
Paper Plate Puppet Play
Salad That Sings
Invite an Artist
Teamwork Works!
Wooly Lambs
Circle of Pandas
Panda Pokey
Act It Out
Our Revised 'Little Bo Peep'
Froggy Fun
Trees Throughout the Seasons
A Tasty Piece of Pizza
Emperor Penguins of Ant-ART-ica
Winter Whites
Super Snowflake
A Snowy Quilt
Sparkly Snow (Art)
Paper Plate Groundhog
Let's Dance
Printing Hearts
Create a Quilt of Hearts
Give Us a Smile!
March Music
Lonely Clouds in the Sky
Silly Seeds
Rainbow Dancing
Spring Trees
Watch the Flowers Grow
Flowers to Eat
Don't Be a Litterbug
Paper Trees
Time for Flowers
Spring Flowers
Pressing Flowers
April Showers Art
Flower Hour
Give a Hug Card
Bookmark It!
A Mother's Day Gift of Love
Mother's Day 'Tail'
Make a Beehive
Seeing Stars (Flag Day)
Where Are the Ants?
Fireworks!
Patriotic Windsocks
Read It and Draw
Here I Am
Let's Sing
I Am an Apple Tree, Are You?
Meet Mrs. Apple
Leaf Prints
Johnny Appleseed
Leaves Are Falling
Leafy Mobiles
Make a Mini Pumpkin
Egg Carton Fire Truck
Create a Halloween Ghostie (Art)
A Great Big Boo! (Art)
Pumpkin Pies (Art)
'Feather Together' Turkey
A Hand-y Turkey (Art)
Pinecone-and-Leaves Turkey
Turkey, Turkey (Art)
Pizza for Thanksgiving
Make a Kwanzaa Drum
Make Holly Gift Tags (and More)
Make a Dreidel
Nifty Necklaces Celebrate Kwanzaa
Perfect Piatas
Joyful Jars (Ramadan)
Delightful Diyas (Diwali)
Christmas Candy Cane Ornament
Don't Eat the Ornaments!
Create a Holiday Song CD
Be sure to visit our Arts Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
FITNESS ACTIVITIES
Beach Bucket Basketball
Make Up a Game
It's an Obstacle, Of Course!
Just Moooooooooooove!
Wall-to-Wall Fun
Hoop Hopping
Tossing Gumdrops
Ring Around the Rosie
Let 'Em Fly!
Have-a-Heart Relay
April Showers: Stepping in the Puddles
Toss It!
Move Like a Turkey
Be sure to visit our PE & Health Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
HEALTH AND SAFETY ACTIVITIES
Should I Call 9-1-1?
Squeezing OJ
The Traffic Light Says
Let's Take a Bath
Dress for Winter Weather
Dental Health Month
Happy Teeth or Sad Teeth?
Let's Brush!
Let's Floss!
'Look Who Is Smiling!'
Healthy Teeth: A Picture Poem
Happy Tooth, Sad Tooth
Healthy Teeth Experiment
Floss, Floss, Floss
March Is Nutrition Month
Name That Food Group
Fruit and Vegetable Puppet Fun
Our Breakfast Big Book
Nutrition Month Read-Alouds
Watch Your Balance! (Nutrition)
A Hungry Caterpillar
Nutritious Reading
Why Stop, Drop, and Roll?
Let's Meet at a Safe Place
Find the Fire Exits
Get Low and Go (Fire Safety)
Fire Dogs and Red Dots
Get Well Wishes Cheer Classmates (Flu Season)
Sharing - Yes or No? (Flu Season)
Cover That Sneeze
Healthful Habits Bulletin Board
Read About Staying Healthy
Be sure to visit our PE & Health Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
LANGUAGE AND READING ACTIVITIES
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Cloudy With What? (Language Arts)
A Big Blue Ox (Folktales)
All About Me
Me or I? (Simple Rhymes)
The Doorbell Rang (Acting Out a Story)
Turtle /t/ Diagrams
Turtle, Turtle, What Do You See?
Are You An Ant? (Sentence Sense)
Dinosaur Books to Read
Say, Sing, Chant the Alphabet
Giant Alphabet
Grocery Store Walk (Letter Identification)
Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
Counting Poems
Purple Passion (and Purple Poems)
Colorful Books
The Bear's 'Reading Den'
Read and Do
Paper Plate Puppet Play
Giggle Break
Imagine This: A Brother or Sister
Did You Hear That?
Order, Order! (Sequencing)
Name That Sound
Nosy Nick (Sense of Smell)
Transportation Poem
Living Letters
Panda Storytelling
Peek-a-Boo Panda
Our Revised 'Little Bo Peep'
Puppet Poetry
A Is for Alphabet Hunt
Do You Hear the /g/ Sound?
A Tasty Piece of Pizza
'Our Book of 100 Opposites'
Antarctica Similes
Winter Wear
What Would They Say on a Snowy Day?
The Mitten
It's Soooo Big!
Mitten Match
Putting It Together: Compound Words
I Love You More
Let's Read on Valentine's Day
Our Breakfast Big Book
Nutrition Month Read-Alouds
Spring Weather Words
How Does It Grow?
I Can Read!
A Hungry Caterpillar
Extraordinary Eggs!
Nutritious Reading
Why Be a Tree?
My Tree Book
The Shape of Trees to Come
Carrots: Read 'Em and Eat 'Em
Mother's Day 'Tail'
F Is for Flag
Flag Day Poetry
The Enourmous Watermelon
At the Beach
Who Do You See at School?
More Apple Activities
Whose Apple Tree?
Finding Apples (Following Directions)
Boo! to You: A Word Game
Let's Write Bat Poems
Make a Pumpkin Word Wheel
It's Pumpkin Time
Let's Go Pumpkin Hunting (Following Directions)
Pumpkin Poem
Halloween Mice and Halloween Cookies
Thanksgiving Word Match
"I Am Thankful for"
The Wampanoags
Cookin' Up Thanksgiving Words
Giving Thanks
Pizza for Thanksgiving
Be sure to visit our Language & Literature Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
MATH ACTIVITIES
Graphing Our Names
The Doorbell Rang (Acting Out a Story)
Dinosaurs: How Big Were They?
Digging for Turtle Eggs
Graphing Our Favorite Popcorn
Beach Bucket Basketball
Counting Poems
Graphing Colors
Noodle Numbers
Order, Order! (Sequencing)
Same Number, Different Look
More or Less?
Measure Me!
Go on a Measure Hunt
It's Raining Numbers
A Sinking Ship
Car Math
Baby Animals Graph
M&M Charts - Mmm!
Feed the Math Monster
Counting Bears
Ten in Bed, and (Math)
Do You Want Fries With Your Math?
Where Do You Live?
Counting Meatballs
Popular Popcorn
Pancake Measurement
Estimate It on the 100th Day
Imagining $100 on the 100th Day
Counting by 10 on the 100th Day
Which Penguin Is Your Favorite?
Mitten Math
Groundhog Day Predict and Graph
Presidents Day: The Men on the Money
Counting Hearts
What Color Is Your Toothbrush?
Which Toothpaste Is Your Favorite?
Tree Math
More Tree Math
Butterfly Match
Let's Measure Our Watermelon
Watermelon Math
Take a Taste of Apple
Apple Taste Test
Sorting Leaves
Pumpkin Graph
Pumpkin Search
Pumpkin Fun: Smallest to Largest
Measure a Pumpkin: How Big Is It?
Pumpkin Fun: How Many Seeds?
Fire Dogs and Red Dots
Make a Shape-O-Lantern
Counting Pumpkins in the Patch
Thanks for the Corn (Math)
Be sure to visit our Math Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
Digging for Dinos
Dinosaurs: How Big Were They?
Eating Volcanoes
Dinos in My Bathtub!
A Real Dino Egg
Make a Dino
Hungry Ants (Science)
Shoot for the Stars
Starry Science
Is Your Head in the Clouds?
You Rock!
A Sinking Ship
Earth's Fossils
Trees Throughout the Seasons
Animals Stay Warm With Blubber
Floating Icebergs
Who's Hibernating?
Food Is Hard to Find in Winter
Healthy Teeth Experiment
Beautiful Seeds
Plants Drink Up Water
Sprouting Beans
Back to Nature: Investigating Trash
What Pollutes Our Air?
Recycled Crayons
Let's Plant!
Make a Promise Tree
Growing Carrots
Seed It!
Get to the Roots
Trees Are Terrific
So Salty!
Studying Sand
What Makes Waves?
Sand and Shadows
Summer Science
Float or Sink?
Evaporation
How Strong Is Mr. Sun?
Water: Drop It, Pour It, Feel It
Why Stop, Drop, and Roll?
Where Are You?: How Bats Find Their Way
Bats and the Food Chain
Comparing Bats and Birds
Pumpkin Life Cycle
Thanksgiving Corn (Science)
Pinecone Bird Feeder
Be sure to visit our Science Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
SOCIAL STUDIES ACTIVITIES
(Including Citizenship, Friendship, Self-Esteem...)
A Special Fish (Art)
All About Me
Community Helpers
More Community Helpers
I Like Me: Developing Self-Esteem
Friendship Fruit Salad
Sing a Friendship Song
Plan a 'Friendship Fair'
Amos and Boris Are Friends
Friendship Wreath
Make New Friends
Our Friendly Book
How Will I Get There?
Who's Who at the Zoo?
What's the Problem?
Remember Others on the 100th Day of School
Who Was President When?
Make Heart Necklaces
Pretty Lincoln Penny Necklaces
George Washington Finger Puppet
What Does the President Do?
Describe Our Flag
Flag Day Poetry
Find the U.S. Symbols
A Citizenship Flag
Patriotic Parade
Super Symbols of the U.S.
Make a Bulletin Board Friendship Quilt
A Citizenship Flag
We the Signers (Constitution Day)
We the Kids (Constitution Day)
A Giving Month
Learn About Pilgrim Children
Sharing Dreidels
Thinking About Giving
Get Well Wishes Cheer Classmates (Flu Season)
Sharing - Yes or No? (Flu Season)
Remembering Our Helpers This Holiday Season
Be sure to visit our Social Sciences Subject Center or History Subject Center for additional teaching resources.
ANIMAL ACTIVITIES
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
A House Is a House (Animal Habitats)
Animals and Their Homes
Alike and Different: Animal Homes and Our Homes
Under the Sea
Watch Turtles Hatch
Make a Turtle
Digging for Turtle Eggs
Tasty Turtles
Turtle, Turtle, What Do You See?
Are You An Ant? (Sentence Sense)
Comparing Ants to Other Creatures
The Bear's 'Reading Den'
Nosy Nick (Sense of Smell)
Match the Animal Babies
Animal Tic-Tac-Toe
Wooly Lambs
Who Hatches?
Baby Animals Graph
Circle of Pandas
Milk a Cow
Read About Animals
Lamb Pop
Counting by 10 on the 100th Day
Emperor Penguins of Ant-ART-ica
Animals Stay Warm With Blubber
Who's Hibernating?
Food Is Hard to Find in Winter
The Grouchy Ladybug
Reindeer Treat
Paper Plate Groundhog
Groundhog Day Predict and Graph
Animal Teeth
Pets and Their Pups
Where Are You?: How Bats Find Their Way
Bats and the Food Chain
Comparing Bats and Birds
RECIPE ACTIVITIES
My Pizza Looks Likes Me!
Eating Volcanoes
A Smooth Treat
Seeing Sea Stars: Two Activities
Tasty Turtles
Ants in the Sand: A Recipe
Graphing Our Favorite Popcorn
Aprons for Everyone
Super Sandwich People
Crunchy Cereal Parfait
Salad That Sings
A Friendly Mix
The Traffic Light Says
Let's Eat Dirt
My Edible Home
Sweet Penguins
Eating Glaciers
Bear Biscuits
Reindeer Treat
Groundhog Cupcakes
Make a Kiss to Give
Make Cheery Cherry Treats
Tasty Kites
Funny Bunnies
A Nest for Me to Eat
A Flag of Fruit
A Flag of Fruit
Summer Treat: Banana Push-Ups
Fruit Kabobs
Watermelon Treats
Patriotic Pretzels
Lucky Ladybugs
Watermelon Pops
Reaching for the Stars
Cool Patriotic Pops
Summer Refressshhhment!
Mmmm! Ice Cream!
Old Glory Cupcakes
Apple Recipes: Yum!
Leaf-Shaped Cookies
Pumpkin Sauce
Make a Batty Snack
Make a Pumpkin Pie
Savory Snacks for November
A Harvest Snack
Sharing Dreidels
Santa's Here! -- A Special Cookie Gift
Pretzel Yums: A Sweet Treat to Give
Where's Rudolph?
Las Posadas Cookies
Holiday Candles You Can Eat
Make an Edible Menorah
Kwanzaa Fruits
Cereal Christmas Trees
French Toast Holiday Treats
Susan LaBella is a former teacher and editor who loves writing poems for young children. She especially enjoys writing rhymes that make children smile. Susan lives in Connecticut with her family and her bulldog named Daisy.
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