Happy Thanksgiving Memento! Let your toddler show the thankful spirit by coloring the turkey sheet and bringing it to the table. Talk about the colors she uses and the sound that a turkey makes. Then as guests arrive ask each one to sign the turkey sheet for your toddler, as a sort of memento
Ghost Socks! All you need for this activity are some old white socks, infant size, toddler size or adult size! Take the socks and cut them like in the photo to look like ghosts. Then take some black felt and cut out eyes, or use googly eyes and glue them to one side of the
Happy Labor Day Moms! Hey toddlers print out the sheet to the right, color it and give it to your mom! She deserves it for all that work she did for you and continues to do for you. You don’t think those diapers magically replace Supplies Needed: themselves do you? – printer and paper
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
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
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
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
Colorful Play Dough Sun Catchers! Brighten your wintry day with some fun sun catchers made with play dough. All you’ll need is some contact paper and some play dough of different colors. Now, cut a small piece of contact paper about 8 inches by 4 inches fold it in half lengthwise to make a crease.
Lotsa Toddler Love! Valentine’s Day is coming up so here’s a great activity for your toddler to create a special gift or decoration. Take some foam board and cut a square piece about 4 inches by 4 inches. Then let your toddler put some foam heart shaped stickers all over it. (Save two stickers for
Gift Bag Makeover! Stock up before you start going to all those birthday parties! If you need a simple colorful non-holiday gift bag then let your toddler help out. Recycle one of those gift bags you received that’s out of season and let your toddler decorate it with paper pieces to make a fun gift
Toddler Mosaic! Let your toddlers create a masterpiece with some felt! Cut up some pieces of felt into triangular pieces of all different sizes (about 1-3 inches in length). Then take an artist canvas (photo shows a 16″x20″ stretched canvas) or piece of poster board and let her glue them on! It is a great
Halloween craft for kids! A Ghost Tree!
It’s a Ghost Tree! I had first made a little ghost napkin for my son’s lunchbox. Just cut out a small ghost from a piece of paper towel and used a pen to make the eyes. He loved it, so we decided to make a fun Halloween craft/game! Just take a piece of poster board, cut
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