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

Art

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

Find a Park or Playground

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

Story Time

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

• 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, DC

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