Ideas for Learning

Fun things you can do with your child:

1. Go to the library – stay for story time
2. Research something that excites them or you
3. Bake something, anything
4. Construct something with blocks or Lego’s
5. Read a book together
6. Draw/Colour together
7. Go window shopping discuss what you see
8. Host a play date with a friend
9. Dress Up together - play a game
10. Build something in the snow, sand (fort, snowman)
11. Go swimming (indoor or outdoor)
12. Have a picnic (outside or on the living room floor!)
13. Listen to new music together
14. Visit a museum
15. Visit a Zoo
16. Visit a pet store
17. Write and mail a letter to someone special
18. Play a card or board game
19. Take a walk
20. Get out baby photos and talk about them
21. Sing Songs
22. Go roller or ice skating together
23. Tell stories about when your child was a baby
24. Hug/hold your child
25. Build a blanket fort - Take photos and share
26. Tell your child what makes them special ( to you and others)
27. Teach/tell your child about your job – take them to work for a day if you can
28. Have a scavenger hunt (indoor or outdoor)
29. Go to a movie together
30. Visit a nursing home or hospital
31. Finger Paint
32. Take pictures
33. Visit and learn about places in your neighbourhood (fire station, police station, post office, dairy, etc.)
34. Clean out a room together 
35. Work a puzzle together
36. Plan a holiday together 
37. Make S’mores
38. Build a bird house
39. Play a sport together
40. Make homemade pizza
41. Rake leaves and play/jump in them
42. Visit an apple orchard / pumpkin patch
43. Plant something and talk about what will happen
44. Have a water fight
45. Play hide and seek
46. Go to a fair
47. Collect different leaves
48. Have a party
49. Take a hike
50. Make puppets and put on a show for each other
51. Tell stories about your childhood
52. Attend athletic event
53. Make homemade ice cream
54. Learn about different cultures
55. Take flowers to a friend
56. Go wading in a creek, visit a wetlands
57. Go for a train ride
58. Go horseback riding
59. Climb a tree
60. Go camping
61. Have a family talent show
62. Draw a map and have a treasure hunt
63. Walk/play in the rain
64. Talk about feelings/emotions
65. Paint a picture by numbers together
66. Go to a theatre performance
67. Complete a DIY project together
68. Wash the car
69. Play Frisbee
70. Pick up litter in the community
71. Fly a homemade kite
72. Jump rope
73. Exercise together
74. Discuss nutrition and basic food groups
75. Start a savings account – talk about budgeting and saving money
76. Write a story (draw illustrations together too!)
77. Go fishing
78. Visit a relative
79. Visit the neighbours
80. Go bowling
81. Dance party!
82. Play Simon Says
83. Have letter or colour of the week and look for them together
84. Play “I Spy”
85. Act out a favourite story together
86. Listen to music and play homemade instruments together
87. Start a gratitude journal with your child – they can draw what they are thankful for
88. Let your child pick out the menu for a meal
89. Start a collection
90. Practice/teach something (reading, tying shoes, zipping zipper, sports, rhyming, sorting, telling time)
91. Sidewalk chalk
92. Go for a bike ride
93. Play pretend
94. Make a collage out of photos and/or clippings of their favorite things
95. Tell jokes
96. Spend time simply LISTENING to them.
97. Make a list of things you want to do together in the future! 
98. Read to each other
99. Listen to a story on u-tube
100. Make muffins together