Ten good minutes a day with your child, planned so you don't have to.
Kindergarten Prep helps parents give their three to five year olds a strong start at home: through play, conversation and hands-on moments, guided with intention. We make Kindy, a daily plan that adapts to your child, a free readiness check, and free printable packs.

Worksheets are fun. They are not how a four year old learns.
We started, in 2023, by selling printable packs. Parents liked them, and we still make them, free. But we wanted to build something more meaningful, so we brought in early childhood specialists, Vida Mercer among them. They were clear: worksheets are a nice addition, something to keep small hands busy and tease a brain, but they are not the foundation. Children this age learn through play, through conversation, through doing things with their hands and being walked through everyday life by someone who pays attention.
That someone is you. Nobody knows your child better, and nobody has a stronger bond with them. You know what they love and how to reach them. What most parents do not have is the map: which skills come in which order, what a three year old is ready for and a five year old is past, and whether what you are doing at home is enough. That gap is where the worry lives.
First a curriculum, then something simpler
So we wrote a curriculum: 26 weeks, play-based, parent-led, covering every developmental area that matters before kindergarten, with room to adjust it to your own child. It worked. It also asked a lot. Even with everything laid out, a parent still had to read the week, plan it, prepare it and hold it in their head. For a busy family that was one more thing.
Kindy is what we built from that feedback. It removes the planning entirely. You answer a few questions about what your child can already do, and from then on Kindy hands you one thing a day: what you need, what to do, what to say. Ten to twenty minutes. You tap how it went, and tomorrow adjusts. A parent with ten minutes can open Kindy knowing those ten minutes will count, for their child's skills and for the two of them.
What we believe
Ability, not age
Two children born the same week can be a year apart in what they are ready for. Kindy plans from what your child can do today, never from a birthday.
Play, talk, do
Scavenger hunts, kitchen counting, a walk with a question. The skills kindergarten looks for are built in ordinary moments, not at a desk.
The parent is the teacher
No screens for your child. Kindy is for you: it tells you what to do and say, and gets out of the way.
One thing a day
Not a week to plan or a binder to work through. One activity, ten to twenty minutes, then done.
Free where it can be
The readiness check, the printable packs and the name tracing tool are free, with no account needed for most of it.
Who designs the curriculum
Vida Mercer
Lead curriculum designer · early childhood consultant since 2005
Vida is a second-generation homeschooler and a mother of three daughters. She has written and designed homeschool curricula from the preschool years up, consults with families on how to approach education at home, and has served on the board of directors of a charter school built around independent home study. As lead curriculum designer, Vida set the vision and the goals of our curriculum and of Kindy, working alongside other early childhood specialists, with the learning objectives mapped to CDC developmental milestones and early-learning research.
What we make
Get in touch
Questions, a page that will not print, an idea for a theme: write to support@kindergarten-prep.com. We usually answer within a day.
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