Play ideas by age

What helps a nine-month-old is useless for a nine-year-old. Pick the stage you are in — each page has the activities, the skills to work on and what is normal at that age.

Baby

0–12 months

Faces, sounds, touch and tummy time. Bonding is the whole curriculum.

2 activities

Toddler

1–3 years

Walking, first words, pouring, stacking, dumping — and doing it again.

8 activities

Preschooler

3–5 years

Pretend play, endless "why", scissors, sorting, first letters and numbers.

9 activities

Early schooler

5–7 years

Reading, board games, simple experiments, rules and fair turns.

7 activities

Big kid

7–10 years

Projects, strategy games, building, coding basics and real questions.

4 activities

Age ranges overlap on purpose. Children develop at their own pace, and a good activity usually works for a year on either side. If something is too easy or too hard, try the band next door — that is more useful than worrying about the number.