Free Toddler Games

It is easy to engage in free toddler games with your kids. Toddlers love to use their imaginations to move and sing along to favorite songs, or get messy with some sand and water or pretend to be objects floating around the back yard.

Toddlers need room to run and jump, to play enthusiastic imagination games and to swing, skip and play hopscotch.

Free toddler games gives them the chance to explore their environment, create imaginary scenarios, enjoy messy play, become more active and have the freedom to express themselves freely.

Try these free toddler games and have fun:

• Give your toddler soft balls to roll and toss and kick. Play this game with them to demonstrate how to move the ball in different ways.
• Play rhyming games that help your toddler learn their sounds say as I Spy and basic tongue twisters such as She sells seashells by the seashore. Read books that rhyme such as The Cat in the Hat.
• Help your toddler puch and pull toys around the backyard or around the house, soon they will do it themselves.
• Sing nursery rhymes which all help your child with language development. For example, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Miss Polly had a Dolly or the ABCD Alphabet Song. Sing them skipping along to the beat and clap your hands, do actions. Act it out, make it fun! Encourage your toddler to join in the actions.
• Help your toddler to put together basic puzzles. Shape sorters can be done together and remember to name the shapes as she puts them in, you will be amazed at what she retains.
• Carefully bounce your toddler in your knee and bounce them around on your hip in time to music. Toddlers love to be bounced, with care and safety.
• Play chasey in different ways such as crawling around the backyard or toddling. Gently tickle when you catch them.
• Go for walks and talk about objects you see and hear, for example the rustling of leaves, the sounds of the birds or traffic noises. Ask your child if she can make the sounds for wind, rain, water, airplanes, trains and cars.
• Provide your toddler with different sized containers to help them practise fine motor skills by putting small containers into larger ones, puzzles, large Lego.
• Talk to your toddler about the food you are preparing at home, how you are getting it read, how it tastes and show them what it looks like.
• Provide materials that can be sorted, such as different coloured blocks or balls or different sized plastic cups and containers and measuring spoons. Give them some water to tip between the containers, with constant supervision.
• Make up silly sounds and noises and copy each other, teach your toddler all the animal sounds such as moo, baa, quack.
• Put fun music on and move to the beat. Your toddler will start to try to move to the beat like you when they are ready.
• Read books together again and again and again. Name the objects in the book and talk with your toddler about what they see and how it might sound.