Toddlers Activities

Toddlers activities create lots of opportunity for learning and having fun. Many activities for toddlers require expensive materials and lots of preparation. Our toddler activities are quick, fun and easy that your child will love!

Your toddler has lots of creative thoughts and ideas, and is enthusiastic to express them all through play. His imagination and creativity grow best with new experiences and with lots of time and space to explore and do his own thing.

Your toddler is a keen participant in new activities and uses his imitation to learn from you and others.

Toddlers Activities to try:

• Create a pretend post box by cutting a slit or rectangular hole in the front of the box. Let you toddler drop things into the pretend post box, then run around behind it to retrieve the item.
• Give your toddler a basket with pegs in it. Let them tip them out, then put them back in again. Teach your toddler how to pass you a peg while you're hanging out the washing. Praise them for helping you!
• Cut pieces of thick cardboard and let you toddler create a collage by gluing materials to it. Help them put stickers on the cardboard and decorate it with crayons.
• Play name the body parts, point to and name body parts and ask Where is your mouth?
• Provide a basket of dressing up clothes. Your toddler might start playing house or marching around the backyard as a firefighter. If you provide plenty of props, such as old clothes and hats, your toddler will probably enjoy playing at being an adult. Go through your wardrobes and see what you can donate to the dressup basket.
• Make some playdough, or buy some and allow your toddler to experiment with it. Roll it flat, squish it between their fingers, cut shapes, build figurines. I know it's messy so take this activity outdoors if you can to save your floors. Or put down a floor mat inside that can be easily cleaned.
• Ice cream containers or small cardboard boxes make fun dress-up hats for toddlers activities. Cover them with foil and your toddler is a martian or astronaught. Help them paste material, flowers or streamers onto the container to make a funny hat.
• Listen to music together and let them bang musical instruments, home made or bought ones in time to the beat.
• Play in the sandpit with a bucket of water to see how the sand changes and you can make mud pies. Use containers to pour the water out and make castles. Talk about the textures experienced, for example the coarseness of the sand and the wet, cool water. Never leave your toddler unattended with water.
• Brain building toys such as blocks, duplo and boxes allow for imaginary play.
• Create some puppets with empty toilet and paper towel rolls. Decorate them and scribble on them. This also gives your toddler a chance to act out feelings through the puppets.
• Go out in the backyard or to the park to allow your toddler to run around freely and burn some energy.
• Read favorite books, stories, poems and nursery rhymes at every willing opportunity. This helps them develop reading skills and learn more about life.