Welcome to farm week! We're starting with a snack that says moo. Your little one turns a slice of toast into a cow face with a few simple toppings: banana for the muzzle, blueberries for the eyes and spots, and strawberry ears. Cow Toast takes five minutes and gets a lot of giggles.

Every farm needs a barn, and today your little one is the builder. The challenge: build a barn that fits as many toy farm animals as possible, then count them. It's building, problem solving and counting to 6 all in one.

We've counted up to 5. Today we add one more and get 6. Six is the first number that needs two hands: all five fingers on one hand, plus one finger on the other. On the farm, six is easy to spot. Half a carton of eggs is six eggs!

A full week of farm activities for ages 2 to 4: the episode and song, farm snacks, building and art projects, favorite farm books, talk-about-it questions and free printables, all in one place.

Everything we use for Letter F in one place: two short videos, a quick talk, a snack plate, a letter game, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.

Everything we use for Number 6 in one place: a short video, a quick talk, a counting snack, a counting game, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.

We're ending dinosaur week with a book about a big feeling. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye? by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mark Teague, asks a funny question: what if a dinosaur had to say goodbye to someone it loves, just like your child?

Dinosaurs lived in a world with plenty of volcanoes, so today's snack erupts! Your little one piles fruit into a mountain, then pours strawberry yogurt "lava" over the top and watches it ooze down.

Set up the pins, roll the ball and count what falls! Today we turn the hallway into a bowling alley with five numbered cups or bottles. It's a big-movement way to practice counting to 5 on the last day of dinosaur week.

No person ever saw a living dinosaur. So how do we know what they looked like? Scientists called paleontologists act like detectives. Bones show a dinosaur's shape and size. Fossil footprints show how it walked, and even how tall it was. Rare skin prints show scales, and some fossils even show feath

The books, craft supplies and learning toys we use most on Sprocket & Sprout, for anyone shopping for a little one ages 2 to 4.

Eight no-prep, screen-free activities for toddlers over Thanksgiving break, made with things you already have at home. For ages 2 to 4.

Twelve easy questions to ask a toddler at the Thanksgiving table, so your little one gets a turn to talk. For ages 2 to 4.

What's left of a dinosaur after millions of years? Bones! Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner is a bright, rhyming book about the bones inside dinosaurs, inside us and inside the museum.

Stegosaurus is the dinosaur with the big plates along its back, and today we build one out of apples. Half an apple makes the body, thin slices make the plates, and your little one gets to eat their dinosaur when they're done.

Some fossils aren't bones at all. They're prints left behind in mud that turned to stone. Today your little one makes their own "fossils" by pressing toy dinosaur feet, shells and leaves into salt dough, then letting them dry.

When kids think of dinosaurs, they think BIG. And some were! The biggest ones, called titanosaurs, were longer than three school buses and heavier than ten elephants. But not every dinosaur was a giant. Some were only about the size of a chicken. Tyrannosaurus rex was somewhere in between: about as

What's hiding under the cups? Today we hide letter cards under upturned cups, and your little one lifts each one, says the letter and hunts for every E. It's a guessing game, a memory game and a letter game all in one.

Each page shows a pair of dinosaurs that are opposites: loud and quiet, big and small, fierce and gentle, fast and slow. The rhyming text is short and bouncy, and the ending brings all the dinosaurs together.

E is our fifth letter! It makes a short /e/ sound at the start of words like egg, elephant and elf. Sometimes E says its own name, too, like in "eat." For now, we're listening for /e/.