Fourth of July Handprints! Let your toddler have some fun with handprints this holiday! Find some red and blue paint for children. Print out the sheet of small stars and cut out a few of them. Tape the stars to a white sheet of paper/cardstock with just a little piece of rolled tape on
Make a beautiful window hanging for that special person! You’ll need some contact paper, some felt and a few other supplies. First take some colorful felt and cut out some shapes. Then cut a strip of contact paper about 6-8 inches wide. Pull half of the backing off and then let your toddler put the
Mother’s Day Fun! – Make a poster, or an iron on or a card for Mom. (And if you are the mom, this can be a present to yourself, just be sure that you put it somewhere so that Dad sees it on your special day!). Print out the poster and have your toddler color
Eggsquisite Napkin Rings!! – Everyone around the dinner table will be amazed that your toddler made these beautiful napkin rings! This is a craft activity that you can do with your toddler over a few days: On the first day: Take a piece of paper (preferably cardstock) and have your toddler help you put glue
Eggs on a String!! – Make this fun toy with your toddler and then let her pull it around the house. Or hang it from a tree outside! All you need are some plastic eggs and some thin ribbon or string. Open up an egg and put the ribbon across one side and then close
Family Egg Hunt Here’s a way to have fun with the whole family. Take some plastic eggs and some photos of relatives and friends. Cut out the photos and put a picture of someone in each egg. Then put the eggs around the room and after your toddler finds one, open it up to see
Whac-an-egg! This is a fun activity similar to the game Whac-a-mole (see below)! Find a box or shoebox and some plastic eggs. Open up one of the eggs to draw the circle outline on the top of the box. You can make as many holes that will fit. Then use a utility knife to cut
Cookin’ Eggs! – Kids love to play with pots and wooden spoons and water! Here’s a chance for them to explore all three at the same time. Find a cooking pot that you don’t mind your toddler banging on, and put some water in it. Find a place on the floor (preferably the kitchen floor)
Colorful Eggs Games- You’ll be able to find these colorful plastic eggs at any general store for some good prices right now! Holiday or not, they are a great buy for lots of fun with your toddler. The colors, the size and all the fun things you can do with them make them a good
Shamrock Greetings!: St Patrick’s Day! Put on your green shirt and have fun coloring some shamrocks with this toddler activity! Click on the image to print the greeting and let your toddler color it for that special someone. After your tot is finished with her coloring masterpiece, cut out the oval in the bottom right
Make a Digital Valentine with Cupid! – Take some white and pink construction paper and make 5 half sheets. Write: “WILL”, “YOU”, “BE”, “MY”, “VALENTINE?” each on both sides of a piece of the paper. ( One word for each piece). Then start the video camera and have your toddler pick up each piece of
SOCCER FOOSBALL! Have some soccer fun with your tots and make a silly Toddler Foosball player. You’ll need a big piece of poster board or a box ( low walls). Cut some slits in the sides to fit a wooden spoon handles that you have. Then cut out the soccer game images in the attached
Find the Paci ( Binky) What would we do without that pacifier!?? Well here’s an activity where you can have fun with it and let your toddler shake things while doing so! Take out a bunch of your plastic tupperware/disposable containers and their lids. Now take your toddler’s pacifier and put it in one of
WASHCLOTH TOSS All It takes a while for kids to learn how to catch something so start with something really soft…a washcloth. Let your toddler toss them up in the air. Toss one to your toddler and see if he can catch it! Then take a basket and try to toss them into a basket.
Wheel of Tickles! It’s better than the Wheel of fortune, it’s the wheel of tickles game! Print out the sheet and then punch a hole in the middle with some scissors and put some yarn/string through the hole and tape to the back. Then tie a plastic spoon to the string in front so that
Magnet Hide and Seek All you’ll need for this activity are some metal pots with lids and a colorful magnet! Take your pots and put them on the floor. Take a colorful creative magnet and put it inside one of the pots or under a lid. Then let your toddler look in each pot to
Holes Game – Take a big piece of poster board and cut some holes in it, big enough to put your head or hands through. Then tape one side to a wall. Now let your toddler stand on one side and you sit on the other. Have her put some objects through the holes and
Crayon Square Game! Toddlers love to drop things so let’s make a game of it. Take a piece of paper and draw a line down the middle lengthwise and a line across widthwise in the middle to make four same size rectangle boxes. Then assign each rectangle to a person…Ex. Susie, Barbie, The Dog, you.
Egg “Surprise” Hunt! You don’t have to wait for Easter to have some fun hunting for eggs! Get those plastic eggs out of storage and put the all around the room. Then let your toddler take a small bag or basket find them all around the room! After she found them open them all to
Bandana Ball! A perfect ball for your toddler to kick and throw around indoors! All you need is a bandana or some other piece of cloth of that size and some socks. Take the bandana and lay it open on the floor. Then have your toddler bring some socks to put in the middle of
Cell Phone Hide-&-Seek! Do you have a cell phone with a fun ringer? Hide your cell phone under a pillow and then call it from your home phone. Let your toddler find the ringing cell phone! You can even put it in a different room! Each time you play, change the ringer. It’s a fun
Toddler Tic Tac Toe! Get some tape and some floor space to play this fun game with your child. Use some masking tape and make a big tic-tac-toe board on the floor or rug. Then find 3 toys of the same thing (three cars, blocks, teddy bears) and 3 socks of the same color. Then
Egg Toss This is kind of like that carnival game where you try to get the ping-pong ball in the fish bowl! But instead you’ll be using cottage cheese containers and small plastic eggs! Just save up a few cottage cheese containers and use a little tape to tap the rims next to each other
Boxetball! Just another form of basketball only tailored to little children and for a rainy day inside. All you need is some string, a children’s small shoe box (with the lid attached), and some kind of plastic jar (like a peanut butter jar). Tie the box using the holes in the top of the lid
Toddler Tug-o-war Here’s an easy activity that will only require two bibs! For the real young toddlers just loop the two bibs together and then have your toddler hold one and you hold one. Then ask your toddler to pull. Be sure that he is sitting down so that when the loops break he doesn’t
Shake it Game! Here’s a fun game to play with your toddler, and you only need a few simple supplies. Find three of the same containers (24 oz cottage cheese containers used in photo) and a few “noisy” small toys. Put all three containers down on a blanket in front of your toddler. Then open
Toddler Tahtzee!! (like Yahtzee. lol.) Kids love to dump things out and this game/activity is the perfect chance to do that! You’ll need an empty cottage cheese container (or other container) and some block-like toys. Put the “blocks” in the container, and shake them around. Then roll them out onto a hard floor. Your toddler
Clothes Swap Kids love to dress up so have some fun with this activity. Get some adult clothes and some of your toddler’s clothes and put them in a basket. Then take turns with your toddler by taking a piece of clothing out and putting it on. When you get an article of your toddler’s
Go Fish! Sticky Fish! This is a great activity for those toddlers that like to get their hands into everything. Take about 10 sticky notes and draw a fish on 6 of them with a crayon. Then lay each individual sticky note down on the floor or on a table with the sticky side up.
Bear Cave Hunt Find the bears in the cave! All kids love to build and play with tunnels. Use your couch and some pillows to make a small tunnel/cave for your toddler to climb into. Then find 3 teddy bears and place them inside the tunnel for your child to find. (Or print out the
Crib Sheet Parachute Fun! You know the fun games that you played with that big parachute in gym class!! Here’s a chance to have some fun with your toddler and a simple fitted crib sheet. Let your toddler hold one side and you hold the other. Now flap the sheet in the air, and both
Toddler Twister!- This is a fun game for the whole family to play! Print out the sheet of shapes and then cut them out. Tape them to the floor in a small group and then have your toddler stand or sit on each shape. Once she has mastered that, then have her put one
Balancing Act!- You’ll use some supplies from some recent activities for this one. Place a plastic cup upside down on the floor and then put one of those disposable tin foil pizza pans on top so that it balances. Then let your toddler put some magnetic letters on the tray to see how many she
Knock! Knock! …- Have some fun with the old “Knock! Knock!….Who’s There?” joke. This is an activity that will have your child playing a form of peek-a-boo and learning what “knocking” is all about and learning the names of relatives and friends. You’ll need to print out the door to the right and cut the
Shoe Box Hidden Treasures- Everyone knows that toddlers love to play with boxes. Here’s an activity where you’ll be able to use some stored shoe boxes ( or other type of boxes) and play a game with your child. Take 3 boxes and put them on the floor in front of your toddler. Then put
Toddlers Dominoes It seems like all toddlers like to knock things down! This activity will let them do just that with some cereal box dominoes. Take a few of your empty cereal boxes and line them up on the floor. Push one at the end to show your toddler how they all fall down.
Gift Bag Treasures! – Everyone has tons of gift bags stored in the closet from past parties and showers. Here’s a good time to use them. Take about 5 or six of them, open them up and put them on the floor. (This is one of those toddler activities where your toddler might have more
Toddler Balance Beam Take all of those old receiving blankets and roll/fold them up to make a line on the carpet. Now hold your toddler’s hand and help her walk along the “balance beam” of rolled blankets. See if she can jump on the beam, or help her do a somersault (slowly!!!). Also see if
Toddler-Mommy Seesaw Naturally this doesn’t have to be with mommy. But we know that mom’s love to get in some exercise whenever possible! Sit on the floor with your legs bent in front of you and your feet flat on the floor. Then have your toddler sit facing you on top of your feet. Have
Flag (sock) Football! A great activity for dad and the whole family! Find some funny colored socks, or use all those socks that don’t match. Stick them in your belt so that your toddler can see them and pull them off. Stick a few in your shoes, or sleeves or neckline. Then have your toddler
Makeshift T-ball! Time to use up those paper towel tubes! Take a couple of tubes and insert one into the other as far as it will go. Then at one end cut four slits up from the end about 2 inches long. Then fold the flaps out so that you can tape them down
Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ ! This is a fun activity for the whole family! Find some floor space that is big enough for you to lie down and roll from left to right about a few feet. Then lie down on your back next to each other at one end of the room. Then have the
Puzzle Pieces Hunt in the Dark
Puzzle Flashlight Hunt! Take the pieces from one your favorite puzzles and hide them in a room that you can darken. Keep the lights off, then take a walk with your toddler and a flashlight and try to find all the pieces of the puzzle. As you find each one, try to put it in
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