ABC Ideas!
Many parents ask, "What can we do at home?" This list was created with "fun" in mind! Choose the activities that are right for you and your child.
Aa
1. Practice your address with mom or dad.
2. Be an artist and paint a picture.
3. Eat an apple for a snack.
4. Cut an apple in half and find the star.
5. Make a paper airplane.
6. Sing the alphabet song.
7. Be an acrobat and do 10 somersaults.
8. Write the letter Aa in the air.
9. Move like your favorite animal.
10. Find a picture of an armadillo.
Bb
1. Read a book.
2. Build a structure with blocks.
3. Bounce a ball.
4. Talk about the day you were born with your mom or dad.
5. Eat a banana.
6. Ride your bicycle.
7. Fly like a butterfly.
8. Hop like a bunny.
9. Find five things that are brown.
10. Help make breakfast.
Cc
1. Count the chairs in your house.
2. Crawl like a caterpillar.
3. Mark your birthday on a calendar.
4. Count the trees in your yard.
5. Cut your sandwich in half.
6. Draw a picture with your favorite color.
7. Count your toes.
8. How many clocks are in your house?
9. Try to do a cartwheel.
10. Cut shapes with scissors.
Dd
1. Have your dad read you a story.
2. Pretend to be a dog.
3. Plan dinner for your family.
4. Help mom or dad with the dishes.
5. Knock on your front door.
6. Dust the furniture.
7. Count a dozen dimes.
8. Dig a hole with a shovel.
9. Give dad a hug!
10. Draw your favorite dinosaur.
Ee
1. Walk like an elephant.
2. Jump up and down eleven times.
3. Eat eight grapes or strawberries.
4. Go outside. What do you hear with your ears?
5. Make an egg salad sandwich.
6. Try to touch your elbow to your ear.
7. Send a card or letter in an envelope.
8. Empty the bathtub.
9. Do some exercises.
10. Let a bowl of water evaporate.
Ff
1. Tell a funny story to your mom.
2. Draw a picture of your family.
3. Smell a flower.
4. Count forward, as far as you can go.
5. Hop like a frog.
6. Read your favorite story with someone in your family.
7. Help fix lunch or dinner.
8. Eat one of your favorite foods.
9. Fly like a bird.
10. Draw five triangles
Gg
1. Roll like a grape.
2. Wear green on Wednesday.
3. Give someone you love a big hug.
4. Play a game with mom or dad.
5. Move like a grasshopper.
6. What can you can grow in a garden?
7. Pound your chest like a gorilla.
8. Go to the grocery store.
9. Gallop around your yard.
10. Make someone giggle.
Hh
1. Tell mom or dad what makes you happy.
2. How many pennies make ten cents?
3. Draw a heart shape.
4. Hop ten times on one foot.
5. Cut out a square and then a triangle. Put them together to make a house.
6. Gallop like a horse.
7. Hoot like an owl.
8. Pretend it's Halloween. What costume will you wear?
9. Hi-five your friends.
10. Try a hoola hoop.
Ii
1. Have an ice cream treat.
2. Draw an ice cream cone with all your favorite flavors.
3. Move like an iguana.
4. Build an igloo with sugar cubes or marshmallows.
5. How many inches long is your foot?
6. Draw a picture with an ink pen.
7. Watch an ice cube melt.
8. How many inches make a foot?
9. Interview a grown up. What did they like to do when they were your age?
10. Take an inventory of your toy box/shelf.
Jj
1. Look at a calendar and find all the months that start with a J.
2. Learn to jump rope.
3. Tell someone in your family a joke.
4. Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
5. What flavor Jell-O do you like?
6. Wear jewelry at home.
7. Drink a glass of juice.
8. Do ten jumping jacks.
9. Jog in place for one minute.
10. Jump for joy!
Kk
1. Read a book about kittens.
2. Play kickball outside.
3. Help mom or dad cook in the kitchen.
4. Fly a kite.
5. What is the name of a baby kangaroo?
6. Find Kalamazoo on a map or globe.
7. Unlock a door with a key.
8. Kiss your Mom or Dad.
9. Pretend to be a king and wear a crown.
10. What do you like about kindergarten?
Ll
1. Listen to a story.
2. Hop on your left foot.
3. Look at the clouds. What do they look like?
4. Draw 10 long lines.
5. Tell your family that you love them.
6. Make yourself laugh.
7. Help sort the laundry.
8. Write the letters of the alphabet.
9. Make lemonade.
10. Look in a mirror. What’s behind you?
Mm
1. Look up at the night sky. What does the moon look like?
2. Squeak like a mouse.
3. Cut out pictures from an old magazine.
4. Move like a monkey.
5. Make a funny face in the mirror.
6. March to your favorite music.
7. Make chocolate milk.
8. Moooooooo like a cow.
9. Dance the macarena with Mommy.
10. Act like a monster, but only for a few minutes. :)
Nn
1. Put napkins on the table for dinner.
2. Count the nickels in Daddy's pocket.
3. Practice saying your phone number.
4. Find out what a newt looks like.
5. Jump nine times.
6. Print as many numbers as you know.
7. Write your name.
8. Look for words you know in the newspaper.
9. Name nine farm animals.
10. Make a necklace.
Oo
1. Open and close your mouth, eyes, and hands all at the same time.
2. Draw one picture for your mom.
3. Put socks on your feet and hands.
4. Use an orange crayon to write ten O's.
5. Peel an orange.
6. Climb over your bed.
7. Go outside and play.
8. Hop on one foot.
9. How old are you?
10. What are opposite words for: on, hot, up, day, slow, left and happy.
Pp
1. Eat a piece of fruit.
2. Put your pants on all by yourself.
3. Paint a pretty picture for your parents.
4. Count all the purple and pink things in your bedroom.
5. Enjoy a bowl of popcorn with a friend.
6. Count the pennies in mommy's purse.
7. Do a puzzle with your parents.
8. Pour yourself a glass of juice or milk.
9. Pretend to be a pony.
10. Make a pizza for dinner.
Qq
1. Stay quiet for one minute.
2. Count how many quarters are in mommy’s purse.
3. Paint with Q-tips.
4. Find out what a quail looks like.
5. Sleep under a quilt.
6. Ask your parents questions about when they were little.
7. Run quickly around the yard.
8. Pretend to be a queen and wear a crown.
9. Quack like a duck.
10. What does a quart of milk look like?
Rr
1. Draw a rainbow for someone you love.
2. Count all the red toys in your bedroom.
3. Listen to the radio.
4. Hop like a rabbit.
5. Draw five red rectangles.
6. Ring your doorbell.
7. Have fun with rhyming words.
8. Recite your favorite nursery rhymes.
9. Crow like a rooster.
10. Roar like a lion.
Ss
1. Sip with a straw.
2. Eat spaghetti for dinner.
3. Draw a picture of your sister.
4. What kinds of things can you buy at the supermarket?
5. Walk like a spider.
6. Use scissors to cut a paper snowflake.
7. Skip around your family room.
8. Listen to a story.
9. Slither like a snake.
10. Talk about being safe at home.
Tt
1. Move slowly like a turtle.
2. Touch your toes ten times.
3. Draw ten triangles.
4. What time is it?
5. Make yourself tiny.
6. Make yourself tall.
7. Taste a new food.
8. Tip toe around your kitchen.
9. Tell someone your telephone number.
10. Touch something soft.
Uu
1. Paint a picture of a unicorn.
2. How many umbrellas are in your home?
3. Hang upside down.
4. Look at seashells underwater in the bathtub.
5. What is your uncle's name?
6. Draw a picture of an umbrella you would like.
7. Eat a snack under the table.
8. Pretend to fly up in the air.
9. Where is your ulna bone?
10. Make a list of all the people you know who wear a uniform.
Vv
1. Smell vanilla and vinegar.
2. Run very fast.
3. Count the vehicles on your street.
4. Talk in a very soft voice.
5. Write the letter V with a violet marker.
6. Sing in a very loud voice.
7. Taste a vegetable.
8. Visit a neighbor or friend.
9. Put flowers in a vase.
10. Make a V with your arms.
Ww
1. Make a wish upon a star.
2. Walk around your neighborhood.
3. Wash a window.
4. Whisper your favorite nursery rhyme.
5. Wiggle like a worm.
6. Try to whistle.
7. Drink something warm.
8. Look outside. What is the weather like?
9. Water a plant.
10. Paint with watercolors.
Xx
1. Find out what an x-ray looks like.
2. Make a treasure map; remember X marks the spot!
3. How many words can you rhyme with fox?
4. Mrs. Riley’s favorite baseball team is the Boston Red So_!
5. Paint a box to look like a house.
6. Play a xylophone.
7. Make and play tic tac toe with x’s and o’s.
8. Cross/x-out all the animals that don’t fly in an old magazine.
9. Make x’s with toothpicks.
10. Where are the fire exits in your house?
Yy
1. Count all the yellow toys in your room.
2. Yell, “I love you” to someone in your family.
3. Draw a colorful picture with a bright yellow sun.
4. Clean your room, please.
5. Measure a yard of yarn.
6. Eat something yellow.
7. Show your parents a big yawn.
8. Play with a yo-yo.
9. Find out what a yak looks like.
10. Do you have yarn in your home? What color is it?
Zz
1. Zoom across the yard.
2. Gallop like a zebra.
3. Move like your favorite zoo animal.
4. Put zero fingers in the air.
5. Name ten zoo animals.
6. Zip your own jacket.
7. Write the letter Z.
8. Zigzag across the room.
9. What words rhyme with zip?
10. Go to sleep. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Many parents ask, "What can we do at home?" This list was created with "fun" in mind! Choose the activities that are right for you and your child.
Aa
1. Practice your address with mom or dad.
2. Be an artist and paint a picture.
3. Eat an apple for a snack.
4. Cut an apple in half and find the star.
5. Make a paper airplane.
6. Sing the alphabet song.
7. Be an acrobat and do 10 somersaults.
8. Write the letter Aa in the air.
9. Move like your favorite animal.
10. Find a picture of an armadillo.
Bb
1. Read a book.
2. Build a structure with blocks.
3. Bounce a ball.
4. Talk about the day you were born with your mom or dad.
5. Eat a banana.
6. Ride your bicycle.
7. Fly like a butterfly.
8. Hop like a bunny.
9. Find five things that are brown.
10. Help make breakfast.
Cc
1. Count the chairs in your house.
2. Crawl like a caterpillar.
3. Mark your birthday on a calendar.
4. Count the trees in your yard.
5. Cut your sandwich in half.
6. Draw a picture with your favorite color.
7. Count your toes.
8. How many clocks are in your house?
9. Try to do a cartwheel.
10. Cut shapes with scissors.
Dd
1. Have your dad read you a story.
2. Pretend to be a dog.
3. Plan dinner for your family.
4. Help mom or dad with the dishes.
5. Knock on your front door.
6. Dust the furniture.
7. Count a dozen dimes.
8. Dig a hole with a shovel.
9. Give dad a hug!
10. Draw your favorite dinosaur.
Ee
1. Walk like an elephant.
2. Jump up and down eleven times.
3. Eat eight grapes or strawberries.
4. Go outside. What do you hear with your ears?
5. Make an egg salad sandwich.
6. Try to touch your elbow to your ear.
7. Send a card or letter in an envelope.
8. Empty the bathtub.
9. Do some exercises.
10. Let a bowl of water evaporate.
Ff
1. Tell a funny story to your mom.
2. Draw a picture of your family.
3. Smell a flower.
4. Count forward, as far as you can go.
5. Hop like a frog.
6. Read your favorite story with someone in your family.
7. Help fix lunch or dinner.
8. Eat one of your favorite foods.
9. Fly like a bird.
10. Draw five triangles
Gg
1. Roll like a grape.
2. Wear green on Wednesday.
3. Give someone you love a big hug.
4. Play a game with mom or dad.
5. Move like a grasshopper.
6. What can you can grow in a garden?
7. Pound your chest like a gorilla.
8. Go to the grocery store.
9. Gallop around your yard.
10. Make someone giggle.
Hh
1. Tell mom or dad what makes you happy.
2. How many pennies make ten cents?
3. Draw a heart shape.
4. Hop ten times on one foot.
5. Cut out a square and then a triangle. Put them together to make a house.
6. Gallop like a horse.
7. Hoot like an owl.
8. Pretend it's Halloween. What costume will you wear?
9. Hi-five your friends.
10. Try a hoola hoop.
Ii
1. Have an ice cream treat.
2. Draw an ice cream cone with all your favorite flavors.
3. Move like an iguana.
4. Build an igloo with sugar cubes or marshmallows.
5. How many inches long is your foot?
6. Draw a picture with an ink pen.
7. Watch an ice cube melt.
8. How many inches make a foot?
9. Interview a grown up. What did they like to do when they were your age?
10. Take an inventory of your toy box/shelf.
Jj
1. Look at a calendar and find all the months that start with a J.
2. Learn to jump rope.
3. Tell someone in your family a joke.
4. Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
5. What flavor Jell-O do you like?
6. Wear jewelry at home.
7. Drink a glass of juice.
8. Do ten jumping jacks.
9. Jog in place for one minute.
10. Jump for joy!
Kk
1. Read a book about kittens.
2. Play kickball outside.
3. Help mom or dad cook in the kitchen.
4. Fly a kite.
5. What is the name of a baby kangaroo?
6. Find Kalamazoo on a map or globe.
7. Unlock a door with a key.
8. Kiss your Mom or Dad.
9. Pretend to be a king and wear a crown.
10. What do you like about kindergarten?
Ll
1. Listen to a story.
2. Hop on your left foot.
3. Look at the clouds. What do they look like?
4. Draw 10 long lines.
5. Tell your family that you love them.
6. Make yourself laugh.
7. Help sort the laundry.
8. Write the letters of the alphabet.
9. Make lemonade.
10. Look in a mirror. What’s behind you?
Mm
1. Look up at the night sky. What does the moon look like?
2. Squeak like a mouse.
3. Cut out pictures from an old magazine.
4. Move like a monkey.
5. Make a funny face in the mirror.
6. March to your favorite music.
7. Make chocolate milk.
8. Moooooooo like a cow.
9. Dance the macarena with Mommy.
10. Act like a monster, but only for a few minutes. :)
Nn
1. Put napkins on the table for dinner.
2. Count the nickels in Daddy's pocket.
3. Practice saying your phone number.
4. Find out what a newt looks like.
5. Jump nine times.
6. Print as many numbers as you know.
7. Write your name.
8. Look for words you know in the newspaper.
9. Name nine farm animals.
10. Make a necklace.
Oo
1. Open and close your mouth, eyes, and hands all at the same time.
2. Draw one picture for your mom.
3. Put socks on your feet and hands.
4. Use an orange crayon to write ten O's.
5. Peel an orange.
6. Climb over your bed.
7. Go outside and play.
8. Hop on one foot.
9. How old are you?
10. What are opposite words for: on, hot, up, day, slow, left and happy.
Pp
1. Eat a piece of fruit.
2. Put your pants on all by yourself.
3. Paint a pretty picture for your parents.
4. Count all the purple and pink things in your bedroom.
5. Enjoy a bowl of popcorn with a friend.
6. Count the pennies in mommy's purse.
7. Do a puzzle with your parents.
8. Pour yourself a glass of juice or milk.
9. Pretend to be a pony.
10. Make a pizza for dinner.
1. Stay quiet for one minute.
2. Count how many quarters are in mommy’s purse.
3. Paint with Q-tips.
4. Find out what a quail looks like.
5. Sleep under a quilt.
6. Ask your parents questions about when they were little.
7. Run quickly around the yard.
8. Pretend to be a queen and wear a crown.
9. Quack like a duck.
10. What does a quart of milk look like?
Rr
1. Draw a rainbow for someone you love.
2. Count all the red toys in your bedroom.
3. Listen to the radio.
4. Hop like a rabbit.
5. Draw five red rectangles.
6. Ring your doorbell.
7. Have fun with rhyming words.
8. Recite your favorite nursery rhymes.
9. Crow like a rooster.
10. Roar like a lion.
Ss
1. Sip with a straw.
2. Eat spaghetti for dinner.
3. Draw a picture of your sister.
4. What kinds of things can you buy at the supermarket?
5. Walk like a spider.
6. Use scissors to cut a paper snowflake.
7. Skip around your family room.
8. Listen to a story.
9. Slither like a snake.
10. Talk about being safe at home.
Tt
1. Move slowly like a turtle.
2. Touch your toes ten times.
3. Draw ten triangles.
4. What time is it?
5. Make yourself tiny.
6. Make yourself tall.
7. Taste a new food.
8. Tip toe around your kitchen.
9. Tell someone your telephone number.
10. Touch something soft.
Uu
1. Paint a picture of a unicorn.
2. How many umbrellas are in your home?
3. Hang upside down.
4. Look at seashells underwater in the bathtub.
5. What is your uncle's name?
6. Draw a picture of an umbrella you would like.
7. Eat a snack under the table.
8. Pretend to fly up in the air.
9. Where is your ulna bone?
10. Make a list of all the people you know who wear a uniform.
Vv
1. Smell vanilla and vinegar.
2. Run very fast.
3. Count the vehicles on your street.
4. Talk in a very soft voice.
5. Write the letter V with a violet marker.
6. Sing in a very loud voice.
7. Taste a vegetable.
8. Visit a neighbor or friend.
9. Put flowers in a vase.
10. Make a V with your arms.
Ww
1. Make a wish upon a star.
2. Walk around your neighborhood.
3. Wash a window.
4. Whisper your favorite nursery rhyme.
5. Wiggle like a worm.
6. Try to whistle.
7. Drink something warm.
8. Look outside. What is the weather like?
9. Water a plant.
10. Paint with watercolors.
Xx
1. Find out what an x-ray looks like.
2. Make a treasure map; remember X marks the spot!
3. How many words can you rhyme with fox?
4. Mrs. Riley’s favorite baseball team is the Boston Red So_!
5. Paint a box to look like a house.
6. Play a xylophone.
7. Make and play tic tac toe with x’s and o’s.
8. Cross/x-out all the animals that don’t fly in an old magazine.
9. Make x’s with toothpicks.
10. Where are the fire exits in your house?
Yy
1. Count all the yellow toys in your room.
2. Yell, “I love you” to someone in your family.
3. Draw a colorful picture with a bright yellow sun.
4. Clean your room, please.
5. Measure a yard of yarn.
6. Eat something yellow.
7. Show your parents a big yawn.
8. Play with a yo-yo.
9. Find out what a yak looks like.
10. Do you have yarn in your home? What color is it?
Zz
1. Zoom across the yard.
2. Gallop like a zebra.
3. Move like your favorite zoo animal.
4. Put zero fingers in the air.
5. Name ten zoo animals.
6. Zip your own jacket.
7. Write the letter Z.
8. Zigzag across the room.
9. What words rhyme with zip?
10. Go to sleep. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.