Make learning fun with 8 hands-on activities designed for 3-year-old children. This printable parent-child activity pack encourages young learners to play, explore, discover, and learn through simple activities using everyday materials.

Children can make shapes with homemade wheat-flour playdough, match animal heads with their bodies, find matching shadows, practise counting with sticks, match animals with their food, create a leaf collage, observe a growing plant, and discover how shadows change during the day.

The activities support early learning skills including fine motor development, counting, number recognition, matching, observation, vocabulary, logical thinking, concentration, creativity, nature awareness, and early science.

The worksheets also include simple parent guidance to make it easier for parents and teachers to conduct the activities at home or in a preschool learning environment.

Worksheet activities included

The pack contains these activities:

1. Let's Make Shapes — homemade wheat-flour playdough shapes; develops fine motor skills, shape recognition and creativity.
2. Who Is This Animal? — cut and match animal heads and bodies; supports matching, observation, vocabulary and fine motor skills.
3. Find My Shadow — animal shadow matching for visual discrimination, observation and concentration.
4. Let's Build the Numbers — place the correct number of sticks for numbers 1–5; supports counting, number recognition and one-to-one correspondence.
5. Who Eats What? — match animals with their food; develops logical thinking, vocabulary, general knowledge and matching.
6. Let's Make a Leaf Collage — collect, compare and create with leaves while exploring differences such as big/small and smooth/rough.
7. My Little Plant — plant a seed and observe its development over several days; supports observation, patience, responsibility and nature awareness.
8. Discover My Shadow — observe shadows in the morning, afternoon and evening to introduce comparison and early science concepts.