Simple activities with your Toddlers!

Make a fun Toddler Dog Book

Jun 27, 2012Jennifer1 CommentACTIVITIES, Animals, Arts & Crafts, Printouts, Rainy Daysdog

Dogs, Dogs, Dogs! Hey toddlers, it’s time to look at some dogs. This is something that you can make and take with you to have on hand while waiting in line at the store. Print out the sheet of dogs and cut them on the lines. Then either use a stapler or hole punch

Toddler Activities: Motorcycle Toy Handlebars Craft

Jun 25, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Crafts, Printouts, Rainy Daystransportation

Does your little one like things that go? Maybe a motorcycle? Make your little one or toddler a small motorcycle toy handlebar so that he/she can zoom around the house pretending to be on a motorcycle! All you need is a paper towel tube, printer to print out the dashboard, a small cracker box, and

Make an Easy Car Tunnel!

Jun 25, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Crafts, Rainy Daystransportation

Cars, trucks, and buses! Kids love to drive their little cars all over the floor so why not let your toddlers / preschoolers drive those cars under some easy home made tunnels. All you’ll need is a half gallon milk carton, emptied and washed out. Cut the carton in half, and then cut out

Make a fun Toddler Cat book

Jun 24, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsACTIVITIES, Animals, Arts & Crafts, Printoutscat, grocery

Cats, Cats, Cats! It’s time to look at some cats. This is something that you can make and take with you to have on hand while waiting in line at the store. Print out the sheet of cats and cut them on the lines. Then either use a stapler or hole punch to string

Toddler Foosball Activity

Jun 21, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Crafts, Father's Day, Games, Rainy Dayssports

Toddlers playing foosball? Of course! They play toddler skeeball and toddler air hockey (sans air) so why not a game of foosball!!! :) For this all you need is a piece of poster board. Then all you’ll do, just like in the Toddler Air Hockey activity, fold up the sides so that you have a couple

Toddler / Preschool Craft activity: Bumble Bee Placemat!

Jun 20, 2012JenniferArts & Crafts, Preschool, Rainy Days

Have some fun with your toddlers and make a cute bumble bee placemat! All you’ll need for this cute craft is a few sheets of craft foam and glue. Take a large piece of black foam for the base. Preparation: Take a large piece of yellow foam and one side cut out a circle (sun) and

Group Party Activities for toddlers: Duck, Duck, GOOSE!

Jun 19, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsAnimals, Games, Group

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

Toddler Activities: Wash Some Clothes!

Jun 18, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Rainy Days

Wash Your Clothes! Fun time to teach your toddler about washing clothes! Print out the two sheets of clothes and cut them out. Then cover each piece of clothing with contact paper and be sure to leave a border of contact paper around the clothing so that you seal the paper inside. Then take some

Awesome Kitchen Gadget: Pineapple Slicer and Party time!

Jun 14, 2012JenniferLife

So I just had to do a post about this gadget because it has turned into one of my favorites! It’s a Pineapple slicer that does all the work for you and makes you look real good a parties! First you slice off the top of the pineapple. Then you put the Awesome Pineapple

Toddler Craft: Paint an Easy Camouflage Lunch Bag

Jun 14, 2012JenniferArts & Crafts, Father's Day

Hey Toddlers! Do you need an easy craft activity to make a gift for Dad? ( or anyone?) Why not take a few minutes to make some custom camouflage paper lunch bags. Dad can take them to work and no one will touch them! All you need are a few small paper lunch bages and some paint. For a

Toddler Felt Hands and Feet

Jun 13, 2012Jennifer6 CommentsACTIVITIES, Colors, Indoor, Rainy Days, Young Toddlers

Hands and Feet – Fun, fun, fun activity! Cut out some felt handprints and footprints of all different colors about the size of your toddler’s hands and feet. Then put them on the floor and have your toddler jump on the footprints and then put his hands down when he sees a handprint. Ask him

Toddler Crafts for Father’s Day!

Jun 10, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Father's Day, Holiday

Make a Father’s Day Hanging Sign! String up the letters to make the hanging like in the photo but with the greeting: “Happy Father’s Day”. Print out the sheet of letters and let your toddler color it with markers or crayons. Then cut each letter out and punch holes on the small black

Toddler Activity: Hot Dog Song

Jun 10, 2012JenniferABCs, Exercise, Games, Rainy Daysmusic

For those kids that just love the Mickey Mouse Hot Dog Song, we’ve come up with a fun activity for you to do while you listen to the song! Print out the sheet of HOT DOG letters and this sheet of Disney characters from the Disney website. Let your child color in the

Nature Postcard toddler activity

Jun 8, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Arts & Crafts, Outdoornature

Take a short walk outside and let your toddler explore the great outdoors. Take digital photos of rocks, leaves, sticks, plants, trees, bugs that you see in your own yard/driveway. Once you are back inside at the computer, download the photos and either collage them with a graphics program, or print them individually. Glue

Hide and Don’t Seek My Chocolate Chip Cookies

Jun 7, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsLifecookies

As the Chief of Food Acquisitions at our house (fancy name for grocery shopper), I have the opportunity to purchase items that I might like to have (and maybe not share). The other benefit of this position is that I usually take the role of Shelf Stocker so that I can place said items in

Toddlers craft activity : Easy Tree Painting

Jun 6, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsACTIVITIES, Arts & Crafts, Earth Day, Preschool

Make this with your toddlers, little ones or big ones! You just need a small blank canvas, scotch tape and some paint. First, take pieces of scotch tape and stick them to a blank canvas creating a tree. Push on the tape so that the edges are stuck. (You might want to do a quick

12 Activities for Toddlers and Dads

Jun 5, 2012Jennifer1 CommentACTIVITIES, Father's Day, Popular, Themesdad

Are you planning a special Father’s Day? Why not plan in some special time for Dad and your toddlers to interact, learn, and bond. Try some toddler sports, fishing, games, bear hunt, or our favorite Skeeball for Toddlers! :) Here are some activities your toddlers might like to do with Dad or Grandpa! 1) Toddlers Air Hockey (

Toddlers Craft Activity: Sticky Note Envelope Purse

Jun 4, 2012JenniferArts & Crafts, Rainy Dayspost-it, sticky note

Have some fun with your toddlers designing purses with sticky notes and envelopes! Just take a small envelope and some different colored sticky notes. ( If you don’t have sticky notes, you can always use construction paper and tape. ) For the circles, you’ll need to create a pattern to cut ( I used

Toddlers Exercise: Yoga Sun Salutations

Jun 4, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Exercise, Printouts, Rainy Days

Toddler Yoga – Sun Salutations! Do some Yoga with your toddlers and celebrate the sun! Put on some nice calm music and print out the sun sheet and let your toddler color it. Talk about where she’ll see the sun and what color it is. Then cut it out. Find a place on the

Toddler Craft: Make some Felt fortune Cookies

Jun 1, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Arts & Crafts, Holiday

FELT FORTUNE COOKIES Be like Martha Stewart and make some felt fortune cookies with your toddler, but you won’t need any glue for these ones. All you’ll need is some felt, colorful pipe cleaners, and some small strips of paper. First, take the pipe cleaners and cut them with scissors into smaller pieces about 3

Toddler Activity: Make a Tree House

Jun 1, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Arts & Crafts, Rainy Daysresealable plastic bag, tree

Make a Tree House! (on the wall) All you need is a small box (I used a resealable bag box), some tape and some construction paper. Take your small box and cut some small windows or doors on the sides. (big enough to fit your toddler’s little people toys to fit) Then let your

Having Fun with Toddlers!

May 31, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Lifeactivities, fun, tips, toddlers, you

Sometimes there are days when it is just hard to get going. We’ve all been there. And then you have a little one tugging at your pant leg, or looking at you for some fun things to do. You might feel like it’s hard enough to entertain yourself and then think about the fact that

Toddler Toddler: How to stay connected!

May 31, 2012Jennifer12 CommentsACTIVITIES, General

Here are some other ways to receive updates, and not miss out on new activities or giveaways: 1) SIGN UP for the DAILY EMAIL UPDATE on the BLOG. Through our Feedburner feed, you can receive one daily email containing all our posts (activities, games, tips, giveaways): http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=ToddlerToddler (After filling out the

12 Toddler Activities & Games with Cereal Boxes

May 30, 2012Jennifer7 CommentsACTIVITIES, Themescereal box

It’s a good thing that you poured the last bowl of that cereal… don’t throw away the cereal box! Here are some activities for toddlers that you can do with a cereal box. Kids can have fun all around the house with these activities, so you can even save up those cereal boxes for

Toddler Game: Bean Bag Toss

May 30, 2012Jennifer4 CommentsACTIVITIES, Father's Day, Games, Rainy Days

Toddlers Bean Bag Toss Game Activity – Have some fun with this simple game and we bet that Dad will even have fun with it! If you have some or want to make some, you can use some small bean bags, otherwise you can use a pair of socks stuffed and tied in a knot.

I Have a Toddler and We Exercise Together!

May 29, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsExercise, Lifeexercise, mom

“I never have any time to exercise” … I know I’ve said it before. But let’s change that to “I have a toddler and we exercise together!” Why isn’t chasing a toddler around all day considered exercise? Well it should be. But there are also ways to incorporate structured exercise into your daily

Toddler games: Finger Touch Tracing

May 28, 2012Jennifer1 CommentABCsreading prep

Finger tracing! Let your child learn by touching. Take a piece of paper and using a pen punch little hole all over the paper. You can make shapes, numbers, lines, circles, or whatever your child might be learning at the time. Then turn the paper over and let your child feel the bumps that were

12 Activities and Games for Toddlers: Cars Theme!

May 28, 2012Jennifer3 CommentsACTIVITIES, Themescars, transportation

Cars, trucks, and buses, Oh My! If you have a toddler that loves cars, trucks, more cars, buses, more trucks, and then some more cars, then you might want to try some of these fun activities. You can do them together and learn some letters too! Toddler Game: Find the Alphabet cars! Alphabet Poster (drive

Toddler Games: Connect the Dots Map Fun!

May 27, 2012Jennifer1 CommentGamesconnect dots, map, writing prep

Connect the Map Dots! Connecting the dots is the beginning exercise for working on writing letters. Here’s a fun way to introduce the concept to your toddler. Get a map that you don’t mind writing on. Sometimes you can get on at the local chamber office, or some restaurants. Put the map on the table

Toddler Games: Connect the Big Dots!

May 27, 2012Jennifer1 CommentColors, Gameswriting prep

Toddler Connect the Dots! Let your toddler start practicing how to connect the dots with this sheet of large colorful dots. It’s a great activity for you and your toddler. Print out the page and first show your toddler how to draw with a crayon from one dot to another dot, then let her try

Toddler Window Cling Sticker Fun

May 27, 2012JenniferArts & Craftsstickers, window

Homemade Window Cling- Take a sheet of that plastic wrap that you have to press to seal, and press it on a window. You might need to use your finger nail and run it across the edge to get it to stick. Then find some of your child’s favorite stickers and have fun! Supplies Needed-

Toddler Game: Garbage Truck Pickups!

May 26, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Crafts, Gamesbox, garbage truck

I think that if there was a channel on tv where all you saw were garbage trucks driving around, picking up garbage, crushing garbage, and dumping garbage, many kids would absolutely love watching that all day. ( Not that I would recommend that. :)) It just seems like garbage trucks are such an attraction for little kids. Well here’s an

Make a Cereal Box Sidewalk

May 24, 2012Jennifer4 CommentsACTIVITIES, Indoor, Rainy Days, Young Toddlerscereal box

Cereal Box Sidewalk! Make something fun for your toddler to toddle on! Use a bunch of empty cereal boxes and cut them open. Then cut the top and bottom flaps off. Lay them down on the floor in a line and let your toddler crawl, toddler, or walk on top of them! As he

Toddler Games: Hi Fives and Lo Fives

May 24, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Printouts

Hi Five Lo Five! All toddlers love to give Hi-Fives! Here’s a fun activity for your toddler to move around the room and practice this with hands and feet! Print out the sheet of handprints and footprints. Let your toddler color them with a crayon if she wants. Then cut them out for her

Craft: Finger Painting inspired by Lilly

May 21, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Crafts, Mother's Daycanvas, finger paint, spring

Create a fun colorful springtime painting with your kids…yes, you get to paint too! You can do a few steps at a time and let it dry in between if you like. So I saw this Lilly Pulitzer dress at the mall last weekend and loved the pattern, so I thought…let’s try that with finger

Toddler Craft: You are a HOOT! Owl sign or card

May 21, 2012JenniferAnimals, Arts & Crafts, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Dayconstruction paper, Egg crate, owl

I originally posted this for Valentines’ Day, but I think it could be for any day! Have fun making this with your child! All you need is some construction paper, part of an egg crate, some markers and some tape or glue. I started with a large oval shape for the body, then cut out

Funny Father’s Day Card –

May 18, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsACTIVITIES, Arts & Crafts, Father's Day, Printouts

Father’s Day sign/card! Father’s day isn’t far away and don’t those hard-working dads deserve a little special attention on their special day? Of course they do! Click to print Funny Father’s Day Craft Card from Toddler Here’s a card/sign that you can print out for your toddler to color or to transfer to a toddler t-shirt

Toddler Game: Easy Maze “Round-the-cereal-box”

May 16, 2012JenniferArts & Crafts, Gamescereal box, maze, shapes

My child loves cereal so we have tons of cereal boxes around. I always hate to just throw them out since there are just so many things to do with them. :) So for this activity you can make a fun maze that goes around a cereal box. Start with turning the box inside out

Toddler Game for On the Go!

May 16, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsGamesenvelope, grocery, peekaboo

Here’s another one to take along with you for grocery shopping or running errands. Take a business envelope with a window on it and cut out a small picture of something small and put inside, then seal/tape up. Then let your little one shake the envelope around to find the picture inside. Peekaboo! :0 Maybe

Toddler activities: Egg crate Bus Fun!

May 15, 2012Jennifer3 CommentsACTIVITIES, Rainy Daysbus, Egg crate, little people

Egg container Bus! All you need for this activity is an Styrofoam egg container. Cut the container at the hinge. Then put the top part under the bottom, like in the photo. This will let it slide on the rug. Next find a bunch of your toddler’s little people and have your child put in

Easy Toddler Craft with just a Cereal Box!

May 14, 2012Jennifer2 CommentsArts & Craftscereal box, kitchen

Do you ever ask yourself “How can I keep my child entertained while I cook?” Well, here’s one easy way, and all you need is a cereal box. All you need to do is pull the cereal box apart at the seams, flip inside out and re-tape back together. Now you can let your

101 Things Moms do for YOU Toddlers! :)

May 13, 2012Jennifer7 CommentsLife

In celebration of Mother’s Day, I’d like to remind all you toddlers how lucky you are to have such wonderful moms that take care of you each day ( yes Dad’s I know that you do these things too, but today was a day to celebrate motherhood.) The list below of “101 things Moms do

Make your own toddler alphabet flash cards

May 9, 2012JenniferABCs, Preschool, Uncategorizedalphabet, errands, flash cards, grocery, toddlers

Creat you own jumbo alphabet flash cards for your toddlers or preschoolers with items from the dollar store! All you need is a box of the alphabet cards and a pack of the die cut letters which you can get for a dollar each at the dollar store. You’ll be putting a card and a

Toddler Games with Catalog Puzzles

May 8, 2012JenniferGamesgames, magazine, puzzle

Do you get catalogs in the mail? I get ones that I didn’t even ask to receive, but have found a way to use them in a fun way. Take a page from the catalog that either has a large item, or some simple colorful items that would be easy to match up, top and

Fun with Hands and Colors

May 7, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Craftscoloring, handprint

Make a fun piece of art with your child! Just trace your toddler’s hand on a piece of paper and then trace your hand over it. Then color in the different sections to make a nice piece of art. This is a great activity to do at the restaurant while you are waiting!

Craft Activity – Make a Toddler Letter box

May 6, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Craftscereal box, hug, paint

Have fun with your child and make your own letter box to hang in the hallway or by the front door. All you need to start is a simple cereal box. Take it apart and cut in half as shown. Be sure the left cut matches up with the right cut, since you are going

Craft Activity: Photo Flower

May 4, 2012Jennifer1 CommentArts & Crafts, Mother's Day, Valentine's Dayarts, construction paper, craft, flower, photo, toddler

You can have some fun with your toddler and this activity! Either take some photos or use some you already have. Then print them out and cut out petals from each. Make enough to go around and make a nice pretty flower. Then cut out the stem and leaf from green construction paper and

Toddler Game of Air Hockey (sans air)

May 2, 2012JenniferACTIVITIES, Gamesball, dad, hockey, poster board, sports

Toddlers love to bat things around and here’s a fun way to play a fun game with her. Take a piece of poster board and let your toddler color it with crayons and markers. Then fold each side of the paper about 2.5 inches. Then fold them up and tape the corners so that you

Make a rain cloud!

Apr 30, 2012JenniferOutdoorbathtub, easy, Egg crate, outdoor, rain

If you are looking for something to do with your toddler that is fun and simple, here’s an idea. Make your own rain cloud, to water the outdoor plants, or use in the bathtub. All you need is an empty, washed out styrofoam egg crate. Then use a pen to poke some holes in each

Toddler Game with Felt Dot Cards

Apr 28, 2012Jennifer13 CommentsArts & Crafts, Colors, Gamescontact paper, felt, game, teach

Make these easy soft Felt cards to have some fun playing games with your toddler while teaching him/her to count, match and identify colors. Find a few pieces of felt and cut out circles. You’ll need to vary the size depending on how many you want to put on a card. Then cut out a piece of

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