Brain-Building Through Play: Activities for Infants, Toddlers, and Children

Games and playful activities provide very young children with opportunities to practice and build important executive function skills that will help them throughout their lives, including learning to focus their attention, strengthening their working memory, and developing basic self-control. This series of handouts offers games and activities to build those capabilities. The activities evolve from adult-child engagement to fostering independence and peer play, emphasizing play's critical role in nurturing lifelong success. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/handouts-tools/brainbuildingthroughplay/