Have some fun spreading love around your room, house or even your neighborhood! Cut out some hearts from felt, in different colors and sizes. Put the hearts around the room and ask your toddler to find the orange one. After she has found them all, make a pretty design and talk about which one is
Stuffed Animal Chats! Take out all of your child’s stuffed animals and put them in a big circle around your toddler. Then have him/her go over and pick one up. When she picks up the stuffed animal say what it is and make the sound that it makes! Then have it say “Hi, Maiya! How
Have your own Coffee Shop! Have some fun with other little ones by serving up your own brand of coffee. Use the print out if you want to use some premade coffee cup logos or make your own! You can also color in the OPEN sign to let everyone know when the coffee shop is
Have a COLORFUL party! This is a great way to learn your colors! Invite a few friends over and ask them to wear clothes in their favorite colors and bring a toy that has their favorite colors. When everyone arrives you can sit in a circle and have each toddler tell the group what color
Have a Camp out!: Invite a few friends and moms over for a fun time camping indoors during the day. Set up your tent in a bedroom and lay sleeping bags and pillows on the floor. Tell your toddler friends to bring their favorite stuffed animal and a flashlight. Turn off the light in the
Time for a Jam Session! Kids love music and research has also shown that music helps kids learn. So invite some other toddlers over and have a jam session. Ask each child to bring a special “instrument” (rattle, drum, etc.). Find some fun cds from the library and when everybody arrives have them march around
Hidden Letters!: Toddlers love to hide and find things. Spread the word to a few of your toddler friends that you think some letters might be hiding in your house and you need some help finding them! Before guests arrive take your magnet letters, or cut out some letters from construction paper and hide
Play Tent Extravaganza!: This will surely make your toddlers feel like they are at some fancy amusement park. Invite some other toddlers over and ask each one to bring a play(PopUp) tent. They are easy to pack up and set up. Before guests arrive, make space in a room or outside for plenty of running
Time for Tea-ball! That’s right… time to get those toddlers together for a game of ball while the moms have some tea!! Tell your toddler friends to wear their favorite team apparel and baseball cap. Then when the kids arrive let them have some fun with some empty 12 oz water bottles and ping pong
Indoor Nature Walk It’s time for a walk through nature in your living room! Take all the plants in your house and put them in one room. Line them up along a wall or just put them around the room. Print out the sheet of Garden Fun or Butterflies, cut them out and put them
Teddy Bear clothes fun!: Invite kids over and have each one bring an extra shirt and pants. Then find a doll/bear that is big enough to put the kids’ clothes on. Put each shirt and pants on the bear, one over the other and not matching. Then have the kids sit in a circle and
Toddler Golf! Set up an indoor/outdoor miniature golf course for those toddlers! Tell your friends to wear their golf shirts and knickers…because it’s time for a game of Toddler Golf! You can buy inexpensive golf club sets for toddlers at most toy stores. Use boxes and books to make a lane and a hole. Or
Mini Toddler Obstacle Course Get those toddlers working and having fun! Clear out some floor space and then set up a couple of plastic bins ( as used in the Toddlerobics activity) about a foot apart. Then put down some pillows in a line. Have the toddlers line up in front of one plastic bin,
Disco Party Toddlers can have a disco too!! Invite all your toddler friends over and ask them to bring a toy that lights up. Set up one of your rooms so that you can make it dark, either by using curtains or throwing sheets over the windows. Then when all the kids arrive have
Make a Friends Tree: Invite up to 7 other toddlers/friends over. Click on the “Friends Tree” to the right to print. When each toddler arrives, use your digital camera to take a photo of each friend. (If you don’t have a digital camera you can ask your friends to bring photos of themselves.) Then print
Egg Crate Stomping Party! Kids love to crush things so here’s a fun way to let them have fun! Save up a bunch of styrofoam egg crates. Now find a spot in a room where you can line them up on the floor in a circle. Open the crates up and lay them upside-down in
Have a Puppet Hunt All kids love puppets! Here’s a fun way to introduce the puppets to a group of toddlers. Before the kids arrive, put one puppet to the side (for example, Peter Pan) and hide the rest around the room. When the kids arrive have Peter Pan talk to them and ask them
Toddler Sumo Wrestling Have each toddler wear a size 4-6 t-shirt. Then stuff a throw/toddler pillow inside the shirt on the front side. Let them bounce into each other, safely, or against some other pillows leaned up against a couch. You can even put a big bed pillow inside a big t-shirt you are wearing
A Poster Party!: Put out a bunch of white poster board sheets and write each toddler’s name on the top in big letters. Then let each toddler draw with some crayons/markers on their own sheet while some music is playing. Then stop the music and tell each toddler to move to a different sheet to
Stroller races! Find some play strollers for dolls and set up a race track in your living room. Tell each toddler to bring over their favorite stuffed animal to be their “driver”! Using some masking tape, make a “road” on your floor wide enough for the toddlers to push the stroller on. Then have all
Toddler Kickball Take a big fitted sheet from the linen closet and lay it down in the middle of the floor. Then have all the toddlers sit on the sheet making a circle inside so that it forms a wall to keep the toddlers inside. (So pull the sides of the sheets so that they
Toddler Drum Circle! Save up a bunch of small containers and boxes for a fun time with your toddlers. Cottage Cheese containers, Oatmeal containers, and small boxes work great for a little toddler drum. Give each toddler a container or box and have them all sit in a circle with the container between their legs.
A Toddler (Dora) Treasure Hunt Puzzle!: Have each toddler bring a special backpack for this event. Then put a plastic spoon, plastic fork, napkin, sippy cup, bib or straw hidden around the room. Then put one of same of each item in a backpack (So each backpack only has one item). Then tell each toddler
Toddler Bucket Brigade! Take some empty cottage cheese containers or small sand pails/buckets and a bag of beans ( or some other small items that will fit in the small bucket) Then have the toddlers stand in a line and put the beans in the bucket of the toddler at the end. Have him pour
Toddler Happy Hour! Get ready for an hour of happy faces! Have each toddler bring a photo of himself crying. When they arrive, tell them that it is happy hour and it’s time to leave the sad faces behind. Put a small basket near the door and tell them to show everyone their sad face
Trip to the Library! Print out the sheet of library cards and have each toddler “sign” his/her name on the line. Then cover with some contact paper and cut out. Next put some books on the couch, table, shelf and have the toddlers walk around and choose a book to “borrow” from the library.
Pool Party!: Have each child bring a blow-up pool, or just buy a few for yourself. Then blow them up and put them next to each other. Have the kids climb from one pool to the other. If you want to do this indoors, then don’t add water, just put in some confetti or cut
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
Group Party Activities for toddlers: Duck, Duck, GOOSE!
Toddler Duck Duck Goose Game! Here’s a fun way to play Duck Duck Goose with Toddlers at a playdate, school or party! Print out the sheet of ducks and a goose and then cut them out and lay them face-down on the floor. Have all the kids stand around in a circle and then
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