Take a Virtual Trip to Disney!- You don’t have to get on a plane and wait in long lines to see the Disney Parade! Put your toddler on your lap and watch in amazement as your toddler sees all of his/her favorite Disney characters! Talk about all the different animals and characters you see on
Family Building Blocks! Let your toddler have some fun with family building blocks. You’ll just do a quick makeover of your child’s blocks so that he/she can play with them and spend some time with family! Take a few of your child’s blocks and set them aside. Now print out a few photos of relatives,
Make a mini-aquarium! Here’s a fun activity for you and your toddler. Take a plastic reusable container with a lid. Now take some felt and cut out a fish shape about and inch and a half long. Put it between some contact paper so that it is sealed in. Then using some tape, tape a
Hacky Socks! Similar to Hacky Sacks, this activity will let your toddler have some fun! All you’ll need are a few old toddler/baby socks and some beans. Take about three socks and hold each one open while your toddler drops some beans into it. Fill it up just a little so that you can tie
Fishing for Family! Here’s another fun activity that will help your toddler identify all his/her relatives. Take some photos of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and such. Cut them out and tape a piece of ribbon/yarn (about 8 inches long) to each. Then put all the photos in a small bowl, glass fish bowl, or like
Juice Box Blocks! Aren’t you always looking for an easy activity for your toddler, especially when you are traveling or visiting somewhere? Here’s a simple way to get your toddler to play with the items you packed. Take those juice boxes and let your toddler use them like blocks to build something and knock it
Autumn Indoors! Teach your toddler about the season of “Autumn” and how the leaves come down! Print the sheet to the right and let your toddler color the leaves with red, orange, and yellow autumn colors. Then cut them out and let him/her throw them up into the air and watch them fall down. Better
Toddler Brushing Teeth! This is the way we brush our teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth! Here’s a fun way to introduce the act of brushing teeth to your toddler. Take a digital photo of your toddler with his mouth wide open. Then print it out on a big piece of paper. Next put
Find the Moon! Kids are fascinated about darkness and astronomy. Here’s a fun activity with the moon! Take a white piece of construction paper and cut out a big circle. Tell your toddler that it is the moon and let her color on it with crayons or markers. Then put some tape on it and
Ball Ramp Box Tired of the same old ball game! Here’s a fun ball activity that your toddler will enjoy (and you will also). Take an empty box (diaper boxes work great) and tape the opening shut. Then cut a big circle out of one end (see pic.) Next cut the top of the box
Post-nap Surprise Here’s something fun to do, as a post-nap activity. While your toddler is sleeping, take all of your child’s trucks/dolls and line them up on the couch. Or put them in a big circle on the kitchen floor. Just be creative and line them up somewhere that your toddler wouldn’t expect it. It
Ice Cold Fun! Hot summer day? Here’s a fun activity that will help cool your toddler down. Take a towel and put it down on your kitchen floor or outside on the grass. Then take some of your mixing bowls or other baking ware or dishes and fill them up with some cool water.
Crushing Crackers If you cook with bread crumbs or bake with crushed graham crackers, this activity will help you out! Put the bread crumbs or graham crackers that you need for your cooking recipe in a resealable/zipper plastic bag. Now take a small snack zipper plastic bag and put some fuzzy pom pom craft balls
Hammertime! This is a great activity for those toddlers that have the endless supply of energy. Find a big couch pillow or just an ordinary bed pillow. Then take some stickers and let your toddler put them on the pillow. Now locate your child’s plastic toy hammer and let your child hit the stickers on
Toddler Swaddle That’s right, time to make your toddler snug as a bug. Find a big blanket or sheet and have your toddler lie down with her head up near one corner. Then fold up the bottom corner and then each side, just as you swaddled her when she was a newborn. (You can leave
Big Board Book House! What would the world be without board books for toddlers…and the bigger the better for this activity. Take your big board books and build a house around your toddler. If you have room, you can even sit inside with him and look at all the pages that you see. Talk about
Paperback book Fun – Toddlers love to act like adults and reading is a part of adult life! Find an old paperback book and tape/glue some cutouts ( see Tips below) in the pages of the book. Then put some construction paper over the cover and let your toddler color it with markers. Let your
Toddler Fashion Designer – It’s time to be a fashion designer! Find some toddler jeans and your favorite foam stickers. ( You can use regular stickers too). Lay the jeans out on the floor and let your toddler put stickers all over the pair of jeans/pants. Then while you are out running errands and need
It’s Feeding time!- Run to your nearest grocery or supercenter and get some of those great animal paper plates. (These are great for kids because they are fun, colorful and have separate sections for different foods.) So it’s time to feed the animals. Tape a few of the animal plates up on a wall. For
Toddlermaids! – You parents are going to love this toddler activity. Put you toddlers to work cleaning for you! They’ll have fun with this activity too! Take your duster floor mop and unscrew the top three segments. You’ll now have just the “mop” part and one segment on the stick. Now screw on the end
Toddler Newspaper – All toddlers want to be like mom and dad, or any adult. So here’s a chance for them to pretend like they are adults. Take an old section of the newspaper, penny pincher or local newspaper and tape pictures of animals to the pages. Now sit down on the floor with
Fuzzy Craft Ball Fun: This is an easy one, but a great one. Your toddler will have so much fun and you will too. Take one of your small baskets (or any other container) and pour in a package of fuzzy craft balls. Put the lid on and tell your toddler that there are some
Have fun watering plants! – You know those fun bath toys that you fill up with water and then squirt across the bathtub? Why not put them to good use and help your mom/dad to water the plants? Put some plants on the porch or in the sink and let your toddler use his water
Follow the footprints! – First you’ll need print out the footprints. (You might need a few copies.) Then cut them out and put them in a trail around the room/house/outside. Tell your toddler that some little guy has been walking around the place and you need to find her/him. Have your toddler follow the footprints
Toy Organization Fun! – This is a fun way to organize your toys and play a matching game! Take a photo of some of your loose toys. Then find some containers to keep them in. Print the photos and cut them out. Put the toys in a container and then ask your toddler to find
Say Hi to Grandma (via webcam)! – This is the modern day! You can make a FREE video conference call to relatives and friends all over the world. We’ll tell you how you can do it! Click here for information about setting up your webcam and downloading software. Once you are set up you can
Big Truck, Little Truck, One Truck, Two Trucks – You’ll need to do a little prep work for this activity (or just click on the trucks to print the sheet of trucks). Find your toddler’s favorite toy and take a digital picture, preferably on a simple background. Then download to your computer and print off
Flashlight Hunt– Playing in the dark can be fun! Before you start this activity, go into your child’s room or some other room in the house and place some of his favorite toys/books around the room. To begin this activity, you can review the concept of a lighted room and a dark room. Then let
Halloween Snackmat! It’s that time of year when the pumpkins start coming out. (And we don’t mean your “little pumkin”). For this activity, print out the sheet of Halloween items and let your toddler color them with a crayon or markers. Then cut them out with scissors. Next cut two pieces of contact paper the
Play Hopscotch with Toys! Print out the hopscotch sheet and then let your toddler color in each space with a different color. Next find a small doll/figurine and let that toy play hopscotch. You can both play with a different toy! Call out a color and have your toddler move his toy to that color
Birdhouse FUN! Let your toddler have some fun finding all the bird and putting them back into the birdhouse. First print out all the birds and color them with your toddler. Make some red, blue, yellow and green birds! Then print out the birdhouse and color that too. Then cut out the door to the
Boys and Girls? Print out the sheet of shapes and let your toddlers turn them into boys and girls. Put some arms and legs on each figure. Put some faces and hair too! Then color the dresses or shirts! After you are done you can cut them out and put them on a card! Talk
Fun Toddler Greeting Card Print out the card and let your toddler color the inside. (After printing you’ll need to fold the sheet in half and then in half again.) Draw whatever you want and then send it to a friend, relative or anyone that might enjoy a cute card from a kid. Review the
Library Time!! – Let your toddler go to the home library and check some books out! Set up a bunch of board books along the floor, on a shelf, on a table, or anywhere that your toddler can get to. Give him a small bag and his very own library card. Have him write his
Outdoor Walk (Scavenger Hunt)– Get some fresh air and let your toddler find the items on the list! Take a walk outdoors. You don’t have to go far and you don’t have to go fast. Let your child explore and discover all of the things around her. She might stop to look at a tree
Toddler E-mail!! – Your toddler doesn’t have to use the computer to send an e-mail…just print out the page of “E-mails” and have your toddler color them. Then let your toddler help to stuff them in envelopes after you cut them out. Next let your toddler help to put a stamp on each envelope and
Toddler Dominoes Game! Print out the sheet of dominoes to the right and then put some contact paper of the sheet. Next cut them out to make the 9 dominoes. Now play with your toddler and match up the colors/dots to each other. Count the dots and look at the colors. This is a fun
Restaurant Roadway! Print out the roadmap and the vehicles and bring them with you the next time you go out to a restaurant. Cut out the vehicles and tape them to the top of some sugar packets and let your toddler zoom them around the track/road on the map. Talk with them about each vehicle
Be a Farmer today! Let your toddler be a farmer today and help to get the animals back into the barn! Print out the sheet of barn and animals. Then cut out around each animal and the two halves of the barn. Then tape the two barn halves onto a piece of paper so that
Say Thank you! It’s never too early to teach your toddler good etiquette. After he/she receives a kind gift from a friend or relative, have her send a nice personalized thank you letter. Print out the sheet to the right and let your toddler color it with crayons or markers and then send to that
Have a Great Day! Here’s an activity that your toddler can do and spread happy thoughts/wishes to others. Print out the sign and have your toddler color it with markers/crayons. Then either put it in an envelope and mail it to a special relative/friend, or slip it into your daddy’s lunch box for a mid-day
Design a Playground! Here’s a chance for your toddler to be in charge of a project and have some fun with pretend play. Print out the sheet of playground apparatus. Then cut out the different rides. Put a piece(s) of green poster board or construction paper on the floor and let your toddler decide where
Toddler Money – Let your toddler act like an adult and learn to handle money! Print out the sheet to the right and let your toddler color it with markers or crayons. Then cut the bills out and have your toddler keep them in her backpack. Let her pretend to pay you for certain items.
Video: Virtual Farm
It’s a Virtual FARM!! – Since the Virtual Zooand Virtual Aquarium have been such a hit…we’ve decided to put up a Virtual Farm too! You don’t have to leave the house to visit a farm!! It is the modern day…use technology. This is a perfect activity for a rainy day or for those toddlers learning
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