Summer is over and kids are back to school, now you find yourself questioning, what home activities for toddlers can I do with my child?
Check out this fun list of 10 easy home activities for toddlers that you can do with your child.
- Wooden Coin Bank Set with Posting Lid from Lovevery
- Cradling Shapes Inside Others from Lovevery
- Color Sorting
- Pretend Play
- Pom Pom & Pitcher from Lovevery
- Matching Fruit Flashcards FREE PRINTABLE
- Quilted Critter Pockets from Lovevery
- Mega Legos
- Lacing Beads
- 5 Little Ducks Puppets
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These activities are great for toddlers from 13-21 month old, great activities to do at home while your are preparing dinner, while doing laundry, or just want to sit back and relax to enjoy your cup of coffee or latte.
And better yet, these fun 10 home activities for toddler promotes the 5 domains of early childhood development. The 5 domains of development are physical, cognitive, language, approaches to learning, and social-emotional.Â
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1. Wooden Coin Bank Set With Posting Lid
This week we added the posting lid to our wooden coin bank from Lovevery. The Lovevery 13-15 Months Play Kit comes with this wooden coin bank set, which includes a CARROT LID WITH CARROTS FOR COIN BANK, COIN LID AND COINS FOR COIN BANK, and POSTING LID FOR COIN BANK.
Use household items like cotton swabs to challenge your toddler’s fine motor precision and persistence. This week, we only used pipe cleaners.
Goal: Fine Motor
Will Need: Posting Lid Wooden Coin Bank / DYI with a box and make a few tiny holes (cotton swap size)
Objective: Child will demonstrate fine motor skills with purpose and control.
Practice fine motor precision while posting with cotton swabs and home items for fun DIY flexibility.
The Toddler Play Kits by Lovevery2. Home Activity Geo Shapes Puzzle
This is a 3-D puzzle to practice cradling and nesting complex shapes.
At around 20 months, children may start putting more complex shapes into a puzzle board.
Goal: Cognitive / Spatial Relationships
Will Need: Geo Shapes Puzzle
Objective: Child will explore spatial relationships by trying a variety of possibilities to cradle the inner shapes within the outer pieces, as well as finding the right opening on he puzzle base.
This puzzle is an exploration of the many ways that things can fit together. Start with simple task: offer them one of the larger circles and see if your child can fit it in the base. Once they’ve done so, hand them the smaller circle and ask them to find the spot for it.
LOVEVERY3. Pom Pom Color Sorting Home Activity
Goal: Cognitive / Classification
Will Need: Pom Poms and Palette Painting Dish or an Ice Cube Tray, Markers, White Paper, and Tape.
You will need the markers and paper to make colored circles and tape them onto the painting dish.
Objective: Child will sort the pom poms into groups based by color, but not always accurately.
4. Pretend Play Home Activity
Your little ones creativity starts to shine.
Goal: Symbolic and Sociodramatic Play
Will Need: Doll
Objective: Child engages in pretend- play sequences
Evelyn has been loving dolls and stuffed animals. She rocks them in arms, pretends to feed them when she’s snacking, pushes dolls on her toy stroller, she tries to change doll diapers.
5. Pom Pom & Pitcher Home Activity for toddlers
Practicing Precise Hand-Eye Control using the Grooved Pitcher and Glass from LOVEVERY.
Goal: Personal Care and Hand & Eye Coordination
Will Need: Pom Poms Pitcher & Cup
Objective: Child will pour from a small pitcher.
You little one loves to pour. Using pom poms is a great alternative to introduce pouring. This will give your little good practice before moving on to liquids.
Set up a pouring area on a tray
Start pouring with dry items like pom poms, dry rice or beans-it is easier for your little one to practice pouring.
6. Matching Fruit Flashcards FREE PRINTABLE Home Activity for toddlers
This activity is always a favorite for Evelyn. You can download the free printable here.
Goal: Language and Classification
Will Need: Flashcards and Fruit
Objective: Child will match the fruit with the corresponding flash cards. Eating will be involved!
- Simply download the flashcards FROM DOWN BELOW and laminate them (optional)
- Give your toddler 3-5 flashcards and help her/him find the fruit from your kitchen.
- Prepare and wash the fruit because this activity your toddler will be tasting it too.
- Model to your toddler how to match the fruit with the flashcards
- Most likely in the beginning they will not match the fruit because they will prefer eating it and that’s totally okay! Just follow your toddlers lead.
- Talk to them about the colors, the names of the fruits, the textures, how they taste, and how they smell to improve with more new vocabulary.
7. Home Activity Quilted Critter Pockets
The Quilted Critter Pockets is from Lovevery Toddler PlayKit. Matching and tucking the organic cotton critters takes focus, dexterity, and tenacity.
Lots of different ways to play with this but this week we only had Evelyn pulling them out and putting them back inside the pockets while I was naming the animals.
Goal: Language
Will Need: Quilted Critter Pockets
Objective: Child shows understanding of simple words, phrases, and sentences.
Hang the Critter Pockets at eye level for your little one. We used the Command Adjustables Repositionable Hooks to hang ours.
First, place all the quilted quilted Critters so they poke out of the pockets and let your child practice pulling them out.
Name and describe the critters as they pull them out, and ask them to hand them to you in a game of back-and-forth.
8. Mega Legos Classic Home Activity
Goal: Fine Motor and Spatial Relationships
Will Need: Legos
Objective: Child will connect legos and will develop dexterity and strength in the fingers
Give your toddler a few legos to explore spatial relationships and develop their fine motor skills.
9. Lacing Beads Fine Motor Home Activity
Goal: Fine Motor, Cognitive, and Visual Perception, while promoting hand-eye coordination.
Will Need: Lace and Beads
Objective: Child will thread beads to help strengthen small muscles in their hands as they grasp different sized beads. Child will use various hand movements, depending on the size of the bead.
Lacing Hack: Tape a straw through one end of the lace, this will give your child a nice firm end to put through the spool.
10. 5 Little Ducks Puppets Language Home Activity
The 5 Little Ducks is another classic favorite for children!
Playing with puppets with your baby is a fantastic way to help them learn language, social and emotional development, and motor development.
Children thrive on repetition. They love to look at the same books, sing the same songs and play the same games over and over again. Repeating these experiences is critical for infants to develop language skills and a sense of security.
Goal: Interest in Literacy
Will Need: 5 Little Ducks Puppets
Objective: Child will develop language and communication skills.
You can get the Five Little Ducks: Printable Puppets and Song here.
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