Teachable moments when it comes to feelings shouldn’t be while your child is experiencing a strong emotion. Instead find a quiet time to talk about and play with emotions.

Teaching young children about being thankful, an abstract concept, can be tricky. Creating a Thanksgiving time capsule is a good way to work on these concepts together and involving the whole family is a great way to model thankfulness as well.

This monster swamp sensory bin is filled with different textures, objects to sort and count, and is just gross enough to delight your kids.

Use pompoms and paint to make a fun fall tree craft with your kids.

For younger kids, this math activity is a simple one-to-one correspondence game, but older children can work on subitizing (the ability to recognize amounts quickly without counting) and addition too.