Easy Toddler Learning Activities
Whether you are on the fence of sending your toddler to preschool or joining the rising homeschooling community, or you are simply searching for fun and educational activities to do at home, we have collected several to choose from.
Research is showing how excessive and early screen time for children is causing life-altering issues from obesity to learning disabilities and delayed motor skills.
Keeping the screens to a minimum can be hard in our current culture, but doing so may provide wonderful benefits to your child! Not only will the family bond be stronger, but boredom breeds creativity, and you will have the ability to learn more about what sparks joy in your baby.
Taking notes from those who are educating at home, the folowing ideas are lumped into several categories and weekly themes. They should keep your kids interested, promote educational conversation, involve the whole family, and keep everyone happy!
Easy Toddler Learning Activities
Transportation
Activities:
Paper Airplanes
Balloon Rockets: A personal favorite.
Car Jump
Train Tracks: Set up a town and all your train tracks!
Egg Carton Bus
Books:
- Busy Boats
- I Love Trucks
- I Love Trains
Conversations:
Ask your toddler how people get from place to place and talk about the options: car, bus, train, bike, plane, etc. Talk about engines, power, speed, or lack of these for each mode of transportation. Use colors and sizes with younger kids to play matching race car games or category games.
Toys to Invest in:
Trains and tracks, Matchbox cars, ride-on toy for inside, toy planes (we love the vehicles you can take apart and rebuild!)
Hibernation
Activities:
Build forts!
Shoebox Cave:
Watch a documentary
There are hundreds to choose from!
Make a cave from play dough: Use your imagination with this one.
Read Books, watch movies, and nap!
Play the Hibernation Game: The first person to move is out!
Books:
- Bear Snores On
- Hibernation Station
- Time to Sleep
- Not a Buzz to be Found
- Animals in Winter
Conversations:
Learn about why some creatures hibernate and why some do not.
Toys to Invest in:
Play Dough and toy animals
Zoo
Lion:
Binoculars:
Giraffe:
Books:
- Color Zoo
- Dear Zoo
- From Head to Toe
- My Heart Is Like a Zoo
- Two at the Zoo
Conversations:
Animals, animal sounds.
Toys to Invest In:
Zoo Animals (Little People Zoo is great!)
Oceans
Activities:
Rainbow Fish
Octopus:
Crab:
Ocean View:
Books:
- Rainbow Fish
- Pout Pout Fish
- Little Fish
- Busy Beach
- Seaside Poems
- That’s Not My Mermaid
Conversations:
The number of oceans, the animals, and plants that live in the ocean, salt water versus fresh water (and drinking water).
Toys to Invest In:
Kenetic Sand
Maps
Activities:
Color a map!
Draw a Map: Draw a layout of the house with a compass.
Map Flip Book:
Compass:
Treasure Map
Books:
- Me on the Map
- Where Do I Live?
- Follow That Map
- There’s a Map on My Lap
Conversations:
Directions, adventures
Toys to Invest in:
Compass, binoculars, pirate costumes, maps
Rainbows
Activities:
Half-Circles:
Ribbon Dancers:
Rainbow Mobile:
Rainbow Necklace:
Construction Rainbows:
Books:
- Mix It Up
- What Makes a Rainbow?
- A Rainbow of My Own
Conversations:
Colors, Mixing Colors, Creating Rainbows
Toys to Invest In:
Wooden Rainbow Stackers
Vintage Giraffe
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