Toddler Activities

Try some of these toddler activities that promote healthy child development.

The best toddler activity that you can engage your child in is just simply spendingtime with her. Absolutely nothing is more beneficial to a toddler's healthy development than time she spends with someone who loves her. Even if this is nothing more than reading a book or taking a trip to the park together. Time spent with someone that has her best interest at heart is invaluable for a child, because this relationship has positive effects on the brain's limbic system (the brain's center of your emotions).The more one-on-one time she gets, the more varied experiences she'll encounter. The more varied experiences she encounters, the easier it willbe for her to learn new things because her frame of reference is broader. At this age any positively experienced activity will benefit her educational development.

Free or low cost toddler activities

• Give your child a spray bottle with water in it and a dish cloth, then let her clean your bathtub.
• Take a large sheet and spread over a small table and you have an instant tent.
• Pack a lunch and eat it out in the backyard.
• Make homemade play-dough, use cookie cutters, rolling pins, a potato masher and other kitchen items and utensils to play with it.
• Make a homemade bubble solution and a variety of items to dip in it to form bubbles from things you have around the house.
• Keep a bottom kitchen drawer full of things safe for him to play with. She can pull things out and play with them while you're fixing dinner.
• Fill a dish tub with rice, dry beans or macaroni. Give your child different size containers to fill and pour back and forth. Toddlers really like the tactile aspect.You have to watch young children carefully so they don't put them in their mouth as these are choking hazards.
• Get some of the thick chalk and let your child draw on the sidewalk and/or driveway. The next rain will wash it off.