The Best Kids' Activity Books 2025

1. Step Ahead: Preschool Skills (Preschool) (Paperback)

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Bring the classroom home with Step Ahead workbooks from Golden Books! This teacher-approved guide to basic classroom skills is perfect for preschoolers ages 3 and up—now in a deluxe edition with twice the pages and 34 colorful stickers! Carefully planned by teachers to complement the school curriculum, every Step Ahead workbook provides positive learning experiences through a variety of kid-friendly activities. In Preschool Skills, children will learn about: • Matching numbers nad sets • Counting and coloring • Recognizing letters and sounds

2. Designs for Coloring: More Geometrics

If you like GEOMETRICS, you'll love this book filled with more challenging geometric designs to stir your imagination. You can make unique patterns by coloring the single bold designs or the smaller repeat designs that make wonderful abstract patterns-and have hours and hours of creative coloring fun. Created by award-winning artist/designer Ruth Heller, DESIGNS FOR COLORING are unique among coloring books. The high-quality paper is suitable for use with crayons, felt-tipped pens, water paints, pencils, or pastels. You can use bold, bright colors or lighter, subtler shades. You may even want to frame an especially pleasing page-or transfer a pattern to a piece of embroidery, needlepoint, pottery, or mosaic.

If you like GEOMETRICS, you'll love this book filled with more challenging geometric designs to stir your imagination. You can make unique patterns by coloring the single bold designs or the smaller repeat designs that make wonderful abstract patterns-and have hours and hours of creative coloring fun. Created by award-winning artist/designer Ruth Heller, DESIGNS FOR COLORING are unique among coloring books. The high-quality paper is suitable for use with crayons, felt-tipped pens, water paints, pencils, or pastels. You can use bold, bright colors or lighter, subtler shades. You may even want to frame an especially pleasing page-or transfer a pattern to a piece of embroidery, needlepoint, pottery, or mosaic.

3. School Zone Travel the Great States Workbook

Sit back, buckle up, and get ready for a state-by-state tour of the United States. Whether taking a long car trip or looking for a fact-filled escape from the four walls of home, Travel the Great States is a ticket to big learning. Activity Zone educational workbooks are packed with crosswords, games, word searches, codes, and more that will motivate your child to explore the history and geography of the United States. The workbook also has pages for Canada, Mexico, and Washington, D.C. Along the way, cities, highways and national parks are some of the highlighted features. How many letters does the Hawaiian alphabet have? Where were ice cream cones first served? Entertaining puzzles, intriguing facts, and map quizzes make learning fun. Be sure to encourage your child to write the name of each state in the U.S. map at the back of the book.

Challenging puzzles, map quizzes, and intriguing facts about each state sharpen geography, history, and map-reading skills Learn each state name, state flower and bird 4 pages focus on Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico Perforated pages are easy to tear out for individual worksheets Intended for children ages 8+ 57 activity pages, 2-page map of North America (with U.S. states), and 5-page answer key ISBN: 9780887435379 Publication Date: 2018-03-09

4. DR SEUSS: My Book about Me by ME Myself (Hardcover)

Tell your own story with a little help from Dr. Seuss in this DIY dream activity book that's all about YOU! A perfect gift to celebrate a new school year, birthdays, milestones and all the amazing things YOU accomplish! How tall are YOU? How many teeth do YOU have? Where do YOU live? What do YOU like to eat? Kids will answer these questions and more, celebrating their unique selves while creating their very own biographies in this classic activity book from Dr. Seuss, illustrated by Roy Mckie. With fill-in-the-blanks, lists, check boxes, and drawing prompts, this book allows readers to write and draw right on the fun-filled pages! From the number of freckles you have, to the kind of house you live in, to the silly animal sounds you can make, Dr. Seuss guides kids through an interactive reading experience with a creative spark. The perfect gift for special birthdays or for year-round fun, this book will hold special memories long after it's filled in.

Author: DR SEUSS ISBN: 9780394800936 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 9/12/1969

5. Designs for Coloring: Birds

Do you enjoy watching birds? Do you like coloring and designing? Then here is a book that will provide hours of imaginative and creative fun. The designs include all kinds of birds--some in water, some flying through the air, others resting on tree branches or in grassy fields. You can color them realistically or use your imagination to create stylizes, decorative birds in unusual patterns and designs. Created by award-winning artist/designer Ruth Heller, Designs for Coloring are unique among coloring books. The high-quality paper is suitable for use with crayons, felt-tipped pens, water paints, pencils, or pastels. You can use bold, bright colors or lighter, subtler shades. You may even want to frame an especially pleasing page--or transfer a pattern to a piece of embroidery, needlepoint, pottery, or mosaic.

Do you enjoy watching birds? Do you like coloring and designing? Then here is a book that will provide hours of imaginative and creative fun. The designs include all kinds of birds--some in water, some flying through the air, others resting on tree branches or in grassy fields. You can color them realistically or use your imagination to create stylizes, decorative birds in unusual patterns and designs. Created by award-winning artist/designer Ruth Heller, Designs for Coloring are unique among coloring books. The high-quality paper is suitable for use with crayons, felt-tipped pens, water paints, pencils, or pastels. You can use bold, bright colors or lighter, subtler shades. You may even want to frame an especially pleasing page--or transfer a pattern to a piece of embroidery, needlepoint, pottery, or mosaic.

6. Amazing Machines: Dazzling Diggers (Paperback)

Dazzling Diggers (Amazing Machines) by Tony Mitton and Ant ParkerDiggers are noisy, strong, and big

Diggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift! Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery does its work - manned by a friendly animal gang - in this lively picture book. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irresistible rhymes! From electric cars to powerful rockets, the internationally bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of machines and vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle or machine and the many jobs it can do. Ant Parker's bright, engaging artwork and Tony Mitton's simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures! Continue to explore all things that go with the rest of the Amazing Machines series, including Roaring Rockets, Patrolling Police Cars, and Amazing Airplanes.

7. The Baby's Game Book 9780688159160

ISBN: 9780688159160 ISBN10: 0688159168 Contributors: Wilner, Isabel, Williams, Sam,

Babies don't come with instructions. But this book does, guiding caregivers and their little ones to hours of gentle, hands-on fun. Enchanting watercolor paintings by Sam Williams illustrate thirty-five activities that include finger and face games, knee-ride games, a bath game, and lots of tickle games--tummies and toes, beware It's never too early to laugh and learn with a baby, and thee irresistible games encourage the physical play and word play that help build the skills and connections important for a healthy--and happy--life. Thirty-five beloved baby games, including" Pat-a-cake, Peek-a-boo, To Market, to market," and many more

8. Dover Little Activity Books Stickers: Whales and Dolphins Stickers (Paperback)

Twenty-four handsome peel-and-apply illustrations of Minke, Humpback, True's Beaked, Killer and Pilot whales; Spotted and Bottlenose dolphins, Harbor Porpoise, and 16 other ocean mammals. Sticker Guide.

Whales and dolphins are among the most intelligent and appealing of oceanic mammals. With these stickers children, nature lovers, environmentalists, and sea life enthusiasts can learn more about these fascinating animals while they add a touch of aquatic appeal to notebooks, lunch boxes, mirrors — almost any flat surface. Included here are 24 peel-and-apply stickers depicting such magnificent creatures of the deep as the Minke, Humpback, True's Beaked, Killer, Short-Finned Pilot and Fin Whales, as well as Spotted, Bottlenose, and Risso's Dolphins, Harbor Porpoise, and 14 others.

9. Dover Little Activity Books: Dinosaurs: Cretaceous Dinosaurs Tattoos : 10 Temporary Tattoos (Paperback)

Ten totally awesome tattoos of creatures from the Cretaceous period include triceratops, iguanodon, velociraptor, tyrannosaurus, and five others.

Show everyone how you feel about dinosaurs with these vivid and dramatic tattoos. The full-color, realistic images portray 10 toothy creatures—flying, swimming, and charging, on two legs and four. Species include triceratops, iguanodon, velociraptor, tyrannosaurus, kronosaurus, and five others from the Cretaceous period. Safe and easy to use, these striking tattoos will remain vibrant for days, but you can easily remove them with baby oil.

10. Pirates Tattoos

Pirates Tattoos ...

Ahoy, me hearties! "Arrr" you ready to hit the deck with these symbols of the swashbuckling life? Show the world that you take no prisoners with ten colorful tattoos, including the Jolly Roger, a mighty galleon under full sail, cutlass-wielding cutthroats (with and without parrots), and other piratical images.