Activity Id :12
Activity Name : Actions of body parts
Benefits: Knowledge about various actions of body
Required age: 30 months onwards
Material needed: Printouts depicting various actions of body parts.
- Start with most commonly used body parts.
- Take printouts on various actions done by those body parts.
- Talk to them and ask them to do the same action. For example: Close the eyes, blink it, make a fist with your hand.
- My daughter enjoyed doing this activity. She was running around the house for running action.
Activity Id :13
Activity Name : Dominos Color matching
Benefits: Fine motor development, cognition development
Required age: 30 month onwards
Material needed: Different color dominos, coloring material and paper
- Draw different patterns( Line, triangle, rectangle, etc.) with the same color matching the dominos.
Provide the dominos and ask the kids to match it with a particular color.
Activity Id :14
Activity Name : Three piece puzzle
Benefits: Fine motor development, cognition development
Required age: 30 month onwards
Material needed: Three piece puzzle set.
We can start as early as 24 months ,since my daughter was not ready I have introduced her little late.
- My daughter doesn’t show much interest in solving puzzles. It’s her least priority so I never rushed her to do it. She will quickly get stressed out if she couldn’t complete the puzzle.
- We had more than 20 sets of the 3-piece puzzle in the box. My daughter was overwhelmed to check and solve them.
- So instead of providing in bulk, I have sorted two sets and gave her only those 2 sets of puzzles. It was easy for us to clean them at the end.
- She was bit stress free and show more interest in doing it as it was paired and sorted instead of having it in bulk.
Activity Id :15
Activity Name : Differentiating Big and Small
Benefits: cognition development
Required age: After 30 months
Material needed: Variety of items but try to get big and small items of same kind.
- Place one item at a time. For example, display the ball(small and big) and ask the kid to identify which is big and which is small.
- Place only one item for identification. Otherwise, kids will get confused and lose interest.
- After identifying, place the next item and continue the same process.
Kids will grasp this concept if we apply it in day to day life.
Thanks for the great ideas. It won’t be long before I’ll have one this age!
Thank you
I love these activities! We will definitely be trying many of these out in our house. Fantastic ideas!?
Sure. Thank you.
Fantastic tools to get a head start for school or preschool, for you little one.
Thank you.
Great list! I found a few activities to try with my son when he gets a little older. Thanks, Candice @littlestepsbighappy.com
Thank you. Yeah, pls do try
What fun, educational ideas! Both of my granddaughters are in this age bracket, so I’ll be trying these at home. Thanks!
Thank you 🙂
These are soo good! Repinning this for sure! I love the Domino Color Matching, my little one cannot get enough of anything color related! LOVE this!
Claire
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These are so great! Definitely doing these with next baby!
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Oh what fun!!!! Even my kids who are a little older would love this too!
Yes. It was fun. My daughter loves it.
Great activities for little ones! It’s nice to have some ideas to keep toddlers busy and also learning things along the way.
Yes . very true. Thank you.
Great ideas. Will try all of them.
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Great post and complilation of the toddler activities
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Useful ideas for young children… i def reccommend these to moms…
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These are fantastic Activities and ideas for this age. I loved how you encouraged solving of puzzles by sorting them. That’s an awesome idea
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What a great activity idea! It looks like fun, its educational, and inventive! Love it!
Thank you . 🙂