Craft Activities
We have activities you can do with supplies around the house, like toilet paper rolls, boxes, and more!
Ice Cold Fun!
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
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 with Pillows!
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 Fun
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
Make a Big Board Book House
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
Paperback Book Fun Surprises
Paperback book Fun – Toddlers love to act like adults and reading is a part of adult life! Find an old paperback book and tape/glue some cutouts ( see Tips below) in the pages of the book. Then put some construction paper over the cover and let your toddler color it with markers. Let your
Little Fashion Designer
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
Feeding Time!
It’s Feeding time!- Run to your nearest grocery or supercenter and get some of those great animal paper plates. (These are great for kids because they are fun, colorful and have separate sections for different foods.) So it’s time to feed the animals. Tape a few of the animal plates up on a wall. For
Toddlermaids ready to clean!
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
Toddler Newspaper Activity
Toddler Newspaper – All toddlers want to be like mom and dad, or any adult. So here’s a chance for them to pretend like they are adults. Take an old section of the newspaper, penny pincher or local newspaper and tape pictures of animals to the pages. Now sit down on the floor with
Fuzzy Craft Ball Colors – Toddler a…
Fuzzy Craft Ball Fun: This is an easy one, but a great one. Your toddler will have so much fun and you will too. Take one of your small baskets (or any other container) and pour in a package of fuzzy craft balls. Put the lid on and tell your toddler that there are some
Water plants with this Toddler activity
Have fun watering plants! – You know those fun bath toys that you fill up with water and then squirt across the bathtub? Why not put them to good use and help your mom/dad to water the plants? Put some plants on the porch or in the sink and let your toddler use his water
Footprints activity
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 toddler activity
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
Web video conference with Grandm…
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. Find and lea…
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 activity
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
Toddler Halloween Placemat for sn…
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 Toy Hopscotch with your toddl…
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
Put the birds back into the birdhous…
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
Draw some boys and girls from 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
Print out a greeting card for your to…
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
Toddler activities. FREE, Fun, Crafty…
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 and scavenger hunt :…
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. Funny activity to pu…
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
Dominoes Game for Toddlers
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
Toddler Restaurant road Map with …
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
Toddler Farm Animals activity
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
Make a Thank you poster with your …
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
Have a Great Day sign!
Have a Great Day! Here’s an activity that your toddler can do and spread happy thoughts/wishes to others. Print out the sign and have your toddler color it with markers/crayons. Then either put it in an envelope and mail it to a special relative/friend, or slip it into your daddy’s lunch box for a mid-day
Design a Playground
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
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.
An activity for your child to start his …
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
Alphabeth learning activity. Toddler …
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
Kids easy Map Maze
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 Letter c activity for presch…
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
Group / Playdate: It’s a COLOR Party
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
Group / Playdate: Daytime Indoor Camping
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
Group / Playdate: Music Jam Session
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
Toddler Group / Party Activities: Hidden Letters
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
Group/Party Activities: Toddler Play Tent Extravaganza!
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
Group / Party Activities: Toddler “Tea”-ball
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
Baby Elephant Video
See the Baby Elephant! This baby elephant was born on October 17, 2005. How many pounds do you weigh toddlers?