CEREAL BOX SPOONS You can have some fun with this easy activity to do with your toddlers. Take an empty cereal box and take a utility knife to cut a small cross(X) in the middle of the front or back. Make the cross just big enough for your toddler to push a small plastic
Moving Day! Pretend that you are moving and you need a little helper to pack some things. Take a box and ask your toddler to fill it up with all of your plasticware or tupperware. Be sure she gets all the containers and lids! Then tape it up and let her help you push it
Blocks In, Blocks Out! Take an empty oatmeal container and get some of your toddler’s blocks or small toys. Then cut a square in the lid that will allow a block (or small toy) to fit through. Next cut a rectangle about double the size of the opening in the lid on the side of
Cereal Box Slide Use your cereal box for a fun ride for a favorite stuffed animals. Take an empty cereal box and tape the opening closed. Then cut out a big hole on one side that would be big enough to put the bottom half of a stuffed animal inside. (see photo) Then put 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
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
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
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
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
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)
Easy Pasta Box Peekaboo Game
This one goes along with the easy Envelope Peekaboo quick toddler activity, but just using a pasta box with a window. I took a regular pasta box and turned it inside out and taped back together. ( this is optional, but I felt that the out side of the box was just too busy.)
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