Helping parents engage in early childhood education with their kids.

Activities for children ages 7-8 years old

Here are a few travel apps to keep your children engaged while you are in the car, airport, or enjoying some down time.

Best Travel Apps for Children Ages 6-8

Select an outside area that can easily be hosed down, put on old clothes, and you are ready to create your own Messy Mud Pie Café!

Mud + Mess + Math = Educational Fun!

Try this easy activity with your child and enjoy the hammering together and develop gross motor skills in the process.

End of Summer Activity: Hammering Cotton Balls

KinderTown would like to provide you with educational activities for your 3-8 year old to complete at home.

Back to School Learning Activities

Race homemade rockets, airplanes, birds, or your own creation on homemade zip lines.

End of Summer Activity: Homemade Zip Lines

Create a decorative, mobile-inspired bird feeder from items found in your back yard, recycling bin, and around the kitchen.

End of Summer Activity: Bird Feeder

Create some healthy under-the-sea-themed snacks to share during a picnic, barbecue, or any time that suits your family

Create Sea Snacks for the Whole Family

Make your own jellyfish in a bottle using recycled materials and items from the kitchen.

Summer Activity: Jellyfish in a Bottle

Light is an amazing tool for learning and experimentation. Make your own spectroscope and experiment with light.

Family Activity: Design Your Own Spectroscope

Using the sun and light for the basis for this activity, enjoy creating your own Kaleidoscope.

Fun Activity: Create a Kaleidoscope

Playing with water outside is a great way to have fun in the summer. Try this Evaporating Art activity.

Fun Summer Activity: Evaporating Art

Experimenting with water is the summer is an engaging way to learn about Science. Try this activity to learn about absorption.

Summer Science Activity: Will it Absorb Water?

The weather has gotten warmer, so it’s time to get into the sandbox. Read this post for fun ideas of what to include.

10 Items from the Dollar Store for the Sandbox

Before you throw the plastic Easter eggs away, turn them into a learning activity.

Turn your Plastic Easter Eggs into Hands-on Learning

Meet the Insects: Village Edition is best described as a fun, engaging, multimedia encyclopedia focused on insects.

Meet the Insects: Village Edition | App Review & Activity

In Geography Drive USA your children will test their geography knowledge of all fifty states, with a few history questions thrown in.

Geography Drive USA | App Review & Activity

Wee You-Things | App Review & Activities

Today you get a double whammy of app reviews: Happi & The Word Thieves and Happy & The Pirates!

Happi Papi Spelling App Reviews & Activities

Stop motion can be an incredible, creative experience for both kids and adults, but is not a simple undertaking. Enter the Easy Stop Motion studio app.

Easy Stop Motion studio | App Review & Activity

Rocket Speller PLUS blends phonetic spelling play together with motivating rocket building activities.

Rocket Speller PLUS | App Review & Activities

Fizzy’s Lunch Lab is a unique app with a fun concept for kids that really got our reviewers excited.

Fizzy’s Lunch Lab | App Review & Activities

Whether your child has never flown or is an experienced world traveler, the 2BME Aviator app offers a plethora of information about aviation and flying.

Build a Paper Airplane Activity

Are you geared up and ready? I’ll bet your child is! People all over the world profess their love on Valentines Day, however customs vary slightly.

Valentine’s Day Activities & Books

Geoboard Activities

Rounds: Franklin Frog is our favorite eBook from Nosy Crow! We’re looking forward to their next release.

Rounds: Franklin Frog | App Review & Activities

Monkey Word School Adventure uses mini games to help lay the foundation for a successful reading experience.

Monkey Word School Adventure | App Review & Activities

Handwriting Without Tears helps kids get started on letter formation, even before their fine motor muscles are strong enough to control a pencil.

Handwriting Without Tears | App Review & Activities

We can not get enough of watching children, iPads in-hand, take on the role of drivers in the fun and engaging Happi Full Throttle app.

Happi Full Throttle | App Review & Activities

Operation Math Code Squad is designed for up to four players and builds intentionally on team work. Don't worry, you can also fly solo.

Operation Math Code Squad | App Review & Activities

You’re the Storyteller: The Surprise is one of the most complete storytelling experiences we have seen.

You’re the Storyteller: Surprise (Home Edition)| App Review & Activities

Futaba Classroom comes highly recommended as a multifaceted game to use with your family or in your classroom.

Futaba Classroom | App Review & Activities

The objective of FETCH! LUNCH RISH is to serve lunch to Ruff’’s hungry movie crew. Your children will need quick wits, room to move and game pieces.

FETCH! LUNCH RUSH | App Review & Activities

We recently asked parents about summer learning loss. One thing remained consistent: kids are going to be learning this summer.

Conquer Summer Learning Loss with Apps & Activities

Numbers League is an amazing math game that has all the elements for learning in disguise.

Numbers League | App Review & Activities