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
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.
START A KID SCRAPBOOK Use Let your child start saving all those great drawings of mysterious creatures, and creative faces! Get a three ring binder, some construction paper and some new markers and start adding pages to his scrap book. Be sure to use some stickers to spell out his name on the front. Then
Move your cursor around the page, or let your toddler move the mouse to find the other Letter A’s. Make sure to say “A” each time you see one! A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Google Map Maze Let your preschooler have fun with a maze of his own neighborhood! Go to Google Maps and enter your own town and state or just your zipcode in the search box. Then use the zoom (+ ) to see the streets. When you get to enough detail. Print the page using your
C-World Inspired by our mom’s review of SeaWorld we wanted to show you “C”-World! Print out the attached sheet of the letter C. Have your child color in all the “C”s and then look at all of the objects that start with the letter C on this sheet. Cut them out and glue them on
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 Grocery List: Activity
Grocery List Time! Let your toddler help with buying the groceries on the next trip to the supermarket! Print out the sheet to the right and tell your toddler that it’s time to go to the store to buy some food. Go over the list and tell him that you need him to mark each
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