Activities to do with Young Children

• Activities you can do with very young children.
• Hand shadows
• Bubble making recipes and activities
• More bubble making recipes and activities
• Making balloon animals.
• Homemade play doughs and clays .
• Create a memory book.

Activities to do Outside with Children

• How to make kites
• Further kite related information and yet more kitemaking.
• Street games here, here and here.
• Game finder -search the net for indoor and outdoor games by age group and number of participants.
• Skipping songs and and singing/clapping games.

Activities to do Indoors with Children

• Multicultural crafts and seasonal/festival and environmentally friendly crafts.
• Origami.
• Advanced origami.
• Make paper airplanes.
• Make more airplanes.
• Make a helicopter.
• Magic tricks.
• Here's a selection of ancient civilizations colouring sheets.
• Cartooning.
• Songs and rhymes from around the world
• More songs and rhymes from around the world.
• Fairy tales and stories from around the world (with a thematic search facility).
• Free play scripts.
• Countries coloring pages.
• Animal colouring pages.
• Cats cradle instructions.
• Print out and illustrate a calendar.

Literacy and Numeracy Activities to do with Children

• Alphabet games and activities
• Number activities and maths activities.
• Alphabet, time, number and measuring worksheets to download and print out.

Science Activities to do with Children

• Science related activities,
• More science activities here, here, and here.
• Astronomy resources and more astronomy resources.
• A solar system colouring book.
• How Stuff Works will help you answer questions.

Cultural, Religious and Seasonal Activities

• The Flags of the World site offers information and colouring pages.
• Find a range of Islamic colouring pages at Play and Learn.
• Christmas Activities and Easter activities.
• Here are some Kwanzaa activities.
• Activities about Indian cultures, including lots of colouring sheets and games to play.
• A selection of Chanukah activities.
• Colour in these Japanese posters.
• Making Friends is a great craft site that includes templates of multicultural paper dolls and diverse clothes to dress them in. Be sure to check out their friends who use wheelchairs and friends who wear glasses.

Miscellaneous

• Charts and printouts to help kids develop discipline and learn new things.
• A basic list of things to do with kids.
• Another diverse list of things to do with children.
• Miscellaneous activities , more here, here and here.
• Birthday party ideas.
• Games to play in the car.
• Use a sticker chart to reward your child's behaviour.
• Animal illustrated cutouts, murals and educational worksheets from LearningPage.com (pre-school onwards).

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Wise Caterpillar Wisdom

"Children are the power and the beauty of the future. Like tiny falcons we can release their hearts and minds, and send them soaring, gathering the air to their wings, searching for the knowledge it is their right to want."

Skip Berry

"Any adult who spends even fifteen minutes with a child outdoors finds himself drawn back to his own childhood, like Alice falling down a rabbit hole."

Sharon MacLatchie

"Frequent singing, chanting and rhythmic play can increase your child's growing vocabulary even as it enhances her motor skills...Because they are perceived as games, the child's motivation is to listen, learn and vocalize"

Don Campbell

"It is interesting to note that in the animal kingdom, the human baby is the one privileged to have by far the longest childhood. Mother Nature has wisely allowed the child's developing brain to spend a maximum number of years in the presence of siblings and adults, exploring, experimenting and playing with the infinite behavioural options that will help secure its survival."

Tony Buzan

"It's very clear from everything we know about families, that kids - especially boys - get a lot out of being around fathers. Something different and complementary to what mothers provide takes place at these times... For fathers, doing stuff with your kids is vital. It allows closeness to happen."

Steve Biddulph

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Deepak Chopra