Ready Set Kindergarten English Playing
You are your child’s first teacher.
Play is a child's work, and all play is learning.
Download our playing tipsheet:
Playing Tipsheet (.pdf)
Play and get ready to read!
- Play will help get your child ready for school.
- Play = Learning!
- Children learn a lot about the world through play.
- Give your child lots of chances for free play during the day.
Play at home...
- Give your child bowls, cups, and containers to play with in the bath tub.
- Make blocks out of food and cereal boxes.
- Make or buy play dough for your child to explore.
Play on the go...
- Bring toys and books with you on trips.
- Make up games to play with your child that you can play anywhere.
- Children’s museums have many fun play activities you can enjoy together.
Play at the Library
- Enjoy children’s programs at the library together.
- Check out books from the library that you and your child can act out together.
- Look for parenting books with fun ideas for play activities to try at home.
- Create a dress-up box with old clothes, jewelry, hats, and shoes.
- Make a pretend bus with rows of chairs and a paper plate for a steering wheel.
- Set-up a play restaurant with menus, paper plates, and cups.
- Baby Box
- Baby Tubes
- Connect the Dots
- Board Book Blocks
- Ice Cube Painting
- Color Surprise Box
- Color Collage
- Cereal Box Blocks
- Mystery Bottles
- Peek-a-Boo Puppets
- Peek-a-Boo Tunnel
- Rolling Rattles
- Sensory Crawl
- Shake it Up
- Sight and Sound
- Stack, Nest, Play
- To Market, To Market
- Texture Collage
- Un-Sand Box