If your toddler has ever asked, "Where do apples come from?", this is the book for you. How Do Apples Grow? is part of Jill McDonald's Hello, World! series, sturdy board books that explain real science in words little kids understand.

Last week we met the number 1. This week we add one more and get 2. Your body is full of twos (eyes, ears, hands, feet), so it's the perfect number to find everywhere.

A full week of apple activities for ages 2 to 4: easy apple snacks, simple projects, favorite apple books, talk-about-it questions and free printables, all in one place.

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

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

We end All About Me week with pizza, and not just any pizza. Your child decorates a mini pizza as a person, with a pepperoni face, veggie hair and cheese for a big smile. It's the snack version of a self-portrait.

There's no sitting still for this one. In From Head to Toe, Eric Carle's animals show off how they move their bodies, and then ask your child, "Can you do it?"

This week has been all about me. Today we zoom out and talk about where "me" fits in the world. Toddlers won't memorize all of it, and that's fine. The goal is to start the idea that home is part of something bigger, and to begin learning a few key facts, like the name of your street or town.

Hunt & Count turns your house into a treasure hunt. Your child gets simple prompts, like "Find 2 shoes!", then hunts for those everyday things and counts them out loud. It's the perfect way to end a week that started with the number 1.

Today your little one builds a whole person, from head to toe, out of snack food. It's a body-parts lesson you can eat, and it always ends in giggles when someone takes the first bite out of a leg.

Toddlers learn body parts fastest by pointing, moving and naming. Today, go beyond head, shoulders, knees and toes: talk about what each part does. Eyes help us see, ears help us hear, legs help us run. Pediatric experts also recommend using the correct names for all body parts, including private pa

Today your child makes a portrait, but not with crayons. They'll hunt through old magazines for eyes, noses, mouths and hair, then glue them onto a paper plate to make a face. The results are usually hilarious, and that's the point.

If there's one book we'd want every kid to hear on repeat, it might be this one. I Like Myself!, written by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by David Catrow, is a joyful, rhyming shout of self-confidence.

In short, bouncy rhymes, the book celebrates bodies of every shape, size and color. There's curly hair, straight hair and no hair. There are freckles, birthmarks, scars and stretch marks, big bellies and small ones, and bodies that use wheelchairs, glasses or hearing aids. The illustrations are pack

Today is about hearing that sound more than naming the letter. For toddlers, learning that letters make sounds (sometimes called the alphabetic principle) matters more than reciting the alphabet. We're focusing on the short /a/ sound because it's the one they'll hear most in early words. If your chi

What's in the bag? In Bag Draw, your child reaches in, draws out one everyday object, and tells you all about it: what it is, whether they use it, and what it says about them. It's a guessing game and a conversation starter in one, and it fits All About Me week perfectly.

It's Letter A day, so today's snack is a whole plate of foods that start with the /a/ sound, like apple. Your child gets to taste the letter, hear the sound over and over, and even build a giant A out of snacks before eating it.

Every person on Earth has fingerprints that belong only to them, and toddlers find that amazing. Today your little one becomes a detective: they collect fingerprints from everyone in the house, then look closely to see whose is whose.

Today we're starting our number journey with 1. For toddlers, the goal isn't writing the number. It's noticing that "one" means a single thing, and matching the word to what they see and hold. This is called one-to-one correspondence, and it's the foundation for all counting later on.

If you've seen a Todd Parr book, you already know the look: thick black outlines, bright colors, and characters that seem to be grinning right at you. The Family Book is one of our favorites of his, and it was an easy pick for the first week of the year.